UP minister Mohsin Raza , responding to Priyanka’s proposed Ayodhya visit on Wednesday, first said she was going to the temple town for Babur, the mughal emperor on whose name the Ayodhya mosque was built and which was felled on December 6, 1992.    read more

This is the second time that former UP minister IP Singh has been expelled from the BJP. The first time was in 2012 when he had opposed the party’s decision to induct former minister Babu Singh Kushwaha, then a close aide of the BSP chief Mayawati, into... read more

The Sharad Pawar-led party has guaranteed 100 days of employment to educated youth in urban areas. read more

Punishment given under the special laws should run consecutively and not concurrently because “cash transactions are the root cause of many evils”, reads the petition. read more

Addressed to ‘voters of Kanpur’, the unsigned message reads, “Shri Ramlal General Secretary (Organisation) BJP conveyed to me today that I should not contest the ensuing parliamentary election from Kanpur and elsewhere.” read more

Gadkari who filed his nomination papers in Nagpur on Monday, also claimed that he would win the election by a margin of five lakh votes. read more

The seven days state mourning for the former CM ended on Sunday while the 12-day period of mourning will complete on March 28. read more

Defying the pre-poll alliance between coalition partners, under which Tumkur was allotted to JD (S), sitting Congress MP SP Muddahanumegowda filed his papers. read more

Hours after Congress President Rahul Gandhi furnished details of the minimum income guarantee proposal which is part of the party’s election manifesto, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley critiqued the idea in detail. Accusing the Congress party of cheating and fooling India’s poor for decades, the Finance Minister said that the NDA government is already providing support via direct benefit transfers worth Rs 5.4 lakh crore per year to India’s poor. He said that this amount was much greater than the Rs 3.6 lakh crore proposed under Congress’ scheme. (Hindustan Times)read more

Hema Malini visited the Banke Bihari temple in Vrindavan and Uttar Pradesh congress unit chief Raj Babbar paid obeisance at Mankameshwar temple in Agra before filing their nominations. read more

The AIUDF said it will filed only three candidates to’ stop division of secular votes’. read more

With the BJP yet to announce all its candidates in Haryana for the Lok Sabha elections, Malik may be in the reckoning for one of the seats, sources said. read more

Addressing a gathering at Bardoli in Surat, Gujarat Tribal Development Minister Ganpat Vasava said Gandhi’s “Shiva reincarnation” can be considered true only if he survives after having “500 grams of poison”. read more

Senior CPI leaders, including national secretary K Narayana and Bihar secretary Satyanarayan Singh, announced the candidature of Kanhaiya Kumar from Begusarai Lok Sabha seat on Sunday. read more

With just weeks to go for the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections, Congress President Rahul Gandhi announced a key highlight of his poll manifesto. Declaring his intention to ‘eradicate poverty’ in India, Gandhi promised Rs 72,000 per annum to 5 crore poor families if his party comes to power. Gandhi said that the Congress had consulted eminent economists to work out a fiscally prudent scheme. The promise is being seen as Congress’ response to the NDA government’s decision to provide Rs 6,000 per year as income support to poor farmers. (Hindustan Times)read more