Rae Bareli (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 19 (ANI): People paid tribute to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 92nd birth anniversary in her constituency here. Indira Gandhi contested the Lok Sabha ...

Ranchi, Nov 19 (IANS) He may be hobbling on a fractured leg but Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad is campaigning energetically in the run-up to the Jharkhand assembly polls, ...

Lucknow, Nov 18 (IANS) Three prominent leaders of her party came in Chief Minister Mayawati's firing line Wednesday days after the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) lost the Lucknow West assembly ...

New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury Wednesday criticised Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee for failing to ensure safety of train passengers. Referring to the recent ...

New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) With the Left parties continuing to suffer reverses in the November by-polls following a dismal performance in the Lok Sabha elections, Communist Party of India (CPI) general ...

Kolkata, Nov 16 (IANS) Noted Bengali singer Kabir Suman, who is now a Trinamool Congress MP, has said that he did not see any difference between West Bengal's ruling Communist Party of ...

New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) The Congress is to commemorate its 125th anniversary next year on a grand scale and on Friday set up a 19-member organising committee headed by party ...

By Syed Zarir Hussain Guwahati, Nov 12 (IANS) Assam's main opposition Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) is facing a major political crisis with party supporters and senior leaders demanding a change in leadership ...

Kolkata, Nov.11 (ANI): The CPI(M)-led Left Front government is West Bengal is losing popularity in the state, claimed Union Finance Minister and President of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee, Pranab ...

By T.G. Biju New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) The All India Forward Bloc, a major Left Front partner, is likely to review its decades-old association with the Communist Party of India-Marxist ...

Ranchi, Nov 11 (IANS) Former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, who was Wednesday interrogated for his role in a Rs.2,500 crore money laundering scam, distributed hundreds of vehicles to supporters and used ...

Kolkata, Nov 10 (IANS) A jubilant Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Tuesday said the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led Left Front had been swept away by a "democratic tsunami" in the ...

Kerala/ WB/ Shimla/ Rajasthan/ Lucknow, Nov 10 (ANI): Continuing with its impressive performance in the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress led UDF retained all the three assembly seats in Kerala. The LDF suffered ...

New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) veteran L.K. Advani turned 82 on a quiet note Sunday, meeting well wishers at home - but not attending any political functions ...

New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) veteran L.K. Advani turned 82 on a quiet note Sunday, meeting well wishers at home - but not attending any political functions ...

Bangalore, Nov 7 (IANS) Dissident Karnataka Minister G. Janardhana Reddy, who is leading a campaign for the removal of Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, has displayed amazing consistency in his stand as ...

New Delhi, Nov. 7 (ANI): Almost 20 per cent polling was recorded by mid-day for the assembly by-elections in seven states. Thirty-one constituencies in the States of Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Kerala, Rajasthan, ...

Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 6 (IANS) Kerala's ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) has never lost a by-election while in power and the Congress is defending its long-held seats - the results of the three ...

By Sirshendu Panth and Soudhriti Bhabani Kolkata, Nov 6 (IANS) Amid the boom of Maoist guns, raging political violence and speculation on whether the end is in sight for the 32-year ...

Lucknow, Nov 5 (IANS) Former Miss India and actor-social activist Nafisa Ali, who was the Samajwadi Party's (SP) candidate for the Lucknow Lok Sabha seat, Thursday termed her decision to ...

Kolkata, Nov 5 (IANS) On the day Home Minister P. Chidambaram asked the West Bengal government to maintain law and order, state Home Secretary Ardhendu Sen called on Governor Gopal Krishna ...

Ranchi, Nov 5 (IANS) The Congress party has dumped its old allies in the coming assembly elections in Jharkhand and found a new ally in former chief minister Babulal Marandi, formerly ...

Arambagh (West Bengal), Nov 4 (IANS) Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Wednesday asked her party workers to "resist" terror perpetrated by Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) cadres in this belt, and ...

Kolkata, Nov 1 (IANS) Citing the Left's support to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) veteran Jyoti Basu Sunday made an impassioned plea to the Congress ...

Anantnag (Jammu and Kashmir), Oct 28 (IANS) The following is the text of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's speech at the inauguration of the historic Anantnag-Qazigund rail link in the Kashmir Valley ...

Anantnag (Jammu and Kashmir), Oct 28 (IANS) Prime Manmohan Singh Wednesday said the era of violence was "coming to an end" in Jammu and Kashmir and that the people wanted "peace ...

Anantnag, Oct 28 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir needs to hold its local bodies elections quickly to bring in people in development planning, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday. "I would urge that ...

Shimla, Oct 27 (IANS) The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Himachal Pradesh is trying to woo back its rebel, fearing that he might dent the party's vote bank in the ...

Shimla, Oct 26 (IANS) Agitated over the denial of a ticket to Union Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh's wife for the Himachal Pradesh by-elections, some activists of the Congress party Monday pushed ...

Shimla, Oct 26 (IANS) Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh Monday launched the Congress party's election campaign in Himachal Pradesh for the Nov 7 by-elections to two assembly seats, while saying he should ...