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

Actor-politician Kamal Haasan met All India Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal’s Howrah to finalise a pact between Makkal Needhi Maiam and the TMC for the Lok Sabha elections in Andaman and Nicobar islands. A TMC candidate will contest from the sole seat in Andaman and Nicobar Islands and will be supported by Kamal’s Makkal Needhi Maiam. After the meeting, Kamal Haasan addressed the media and expressed hope that the political relationship with Mamata evolves. (Hindustan Times)read more

Rahul Gandhi said the minimum income guarantee scheme, named Nyay (justice) by the party, would cover 50 million families, or 250 million individuals, that constitute the poorest 20% of Indian households. It will cost Rs 3.6 lakh crore, around 2% of... read more

The move comes more than a month after the bickering among Mumbai Congress leaders reached the doors of the party high command. read more

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

The Bharatiya Janata Party and other opposition parties have protested the alleged refusal of Banerjee’s to have her baggage checked on her arrival on a Thai Airways flight on March 16. read more

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the ED and the Centre, raised objection over the maintainability and said no relief should be granted. read more

Arguing for the two, senior advocate Kapil Sibal claimed CBI has failed to disclose any information to prove the allegations against them in the case. read more

According to sources in the party, this was in the offing for “at least four months”. “There were complaints made about Nirupam’s style of functioning before Congress president Rahul Gandhi and also general secretary Mallikarjun Kharge. The matter was... read more

Senior NCP leader and head of the party manifesto committee Dilip Walse Patil said the country was reeling under a job crisis. read more

In a meeting of SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal with the party office-bearers last week, Parminder had emerged as the consensus candidate. 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

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is likely to begin her election campaign in the temple town with a ‘darshan’ at Hanuman Garhi temple. 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