Lucknow, Nov 15 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati Sunday inducted one more minister into her 51-member council of ministers. The new entrant is Swami Prasad Maurya, who earlier stepped down as ...

Lucknow, Nov 11 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has termed her party's sweep of by-polls in the state as a reflection of people's anger against those who "got together ...

New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) India's ruling Congress and its ally Trinamool Congress as well as the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Tuesday scored huge wins in by-elections across seven states, dealing ...

New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) The Congress and its ally Trinamool Congress scored major victories in by-elections for one Lok Sabha and 31 assembly constituencies across seven states in which the ...

Shimla, Nov 10 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday bagged one seat and the opposition Congress one in the assembly by-elections held last week. Congress candidate Sujan Singh Pathania ...

Chennai, Nov 9 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday suffered a jolt in Tamil Nadu when its National Secretary and Rajya Sabha MP S. Thirunavukkarasar joined the Congress. The Congress announced ...

Shimla, Nov 7 (IANS) There was moderate to heavy polling in the by-elections to Rohru and Jawali assembly constituencies in Himachal Pradesh Saturday, an official said. Polling was peaceful. "After a sluggish ...

Lucknow, Nov 7 (IANS) About 49 percent of the 4.9 million electors in Saturday's by-elections in Uttar Pradesh turned out to cast their vote in 11 state assembly and one parliamentary constituency. Even ...

Shimla, Nov 7 (IANS) Moderate to heavy polling was witnessed in the by-elections to Rohru and Jawali assembly constituencies in Himachal Pradesh Saturday, an official said. "After a sluggish start, polling in ...

Shimla, Nov 7 (IANS) Brisk voting was reported Saturday in the two Himachal Pradesh assembly constituencies of Jawali and Rohru, an election official said. Till 1 p.m., around 35 percent of ...

By Vishal Gulati Jawali (Himachal Pradesh), Nov 5 (IANS) Infighting within the family of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Rajan Sushant may cost the party dear in Saturday's by-election for this assembly ...

By Vishal Gulati Rohru (Himachal Pradesh), Nov 5 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sees its first real opportunity to wrest this pocket borough of union Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh ...

Lucknow, Nov 4 (IANS) Samajwadi Party (SP) general secretary Amar Singh Wednesday said he is party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's Hanuman, thus comparing himself to the monkey god and the party ...

New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the senior most member of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's cabinet, Friday hinted his present tenure may be the last after which ...

Shimla, Oct 28 (IANS) The Congress party has deputed a leader from Punjab to end bickering among senior leaders of Himachal Pradesh ahead of the assembly by-elections slated for Nov 7. Three ...

Ranchi, Oct 27 (IANS) Political parties are examining their options as Jharkhand braces for the November-December elections to pick a 81-member assembly. The Congress has shut its doors for former friend Jharkhand ...

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 26 (IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) decision to initiate a "rectification campaign" to overcome shortcomings within its ranks has been welcomed by party leaders in Kerala. Party general secretary ...

New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) Any talk of bilpolarity in Indian politics has become irrelevant after people voted overwhelmingly for the Congress in the assembly elections in Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh, ...

By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Oct 22 (IANS) This is one triumph that will haunt the Congress in Haryana for a long time. In trying to return to power - a feat not ...

New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday blamed the electronic voting machines (EVMs) for its defeat in state elections, saying the EVMs had become "electronic victory machines" ...

Mumbai, Oct 20 (IANS) Maharashtra will Thursday count the millions of votes polled in the assembly elections to decide who gets to rule the sprawling state -- one of India's most ...

Ranchi, Oct 14 (IANS) Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi started his two-day Jharkhand trip Wednesday amid talk that elections to the state assembly might be announced soon, provoking one-time ally Jharkhand ...

Mumbai/New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) Exit polls Tuesday evening predicted a hung assembly in Maharashtra with the Congress-led alliance coming on top after millions voted during the day in three states ...

Hyderabad, Oct 7 (IANS) Tightening his grip over administration, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K. Rosaiah Wednesday removed controversial police officer S.S.P. Yadav as the director general of police and appointed Girish Kumar ...

Hyderabad/Bangalore, Oct 4 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Home Minister P. Chidambaram will visit flood-hit Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka Monday and Tuesday to assess the havoc ...

Amritsar, Oct 3 (IANS) Amritsar MP and former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu finally returned to his constituency Saturday after staying away for nearly three months. The chirpy Sidhu, who is the Bharatiya ...

Patna, Sept 20 (ANI): The activists of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) here celebrated the party's good show in the by-election for 18 legislative assembly seats. The RJD-Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) ...

New Delhi, Sep 8 (IANS) Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar Tuesday urged the Congress to be "pragmatic" about seat sharing arrangement for Maharashtra assembly polls. "We are expecting (the) Congress party ...

Jaipur, Sep 7 (IANS) Former minister Gulab Chand Kataria appears to be leading the race in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to be the new leader of the opposition in the ...

Kolkata, Sept 1 (IBNS) Former West Bengal Chief Minister and communist patriarch Jyoti Basu said opposition parties Trinamool Congress (TMC) and its ally Congress, along with Maoists are trying to spread terror ...