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Pilot has said he will observe the fast at Jaipur's Shaheed Smarak on April 11 -- the birth anniversary of Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, who was from the Saini community to which Gehlot belongs.

NEW DELHI: Nationalist Congress (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar is likely to walk out of the party and join hands with the BJP to keep Maharashtra’s coalition government afloat in case the Supreme Court disqualifies Shiv Sena MLAs who had split…

VIJAYAWADA: Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy, the last Chief Minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh formerly joined BJP in presence of Union Minister Pralhad Joshi, BJP national leaders Arun Singh and K Lakshman in New Delhi on Friday. He had…

BENGALURU: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday hit back at the Congress questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "silence" on Chinese actions on the border, saying the country's first PM Jawaharlal Nehru had washed his…

NEW DELHI: Veteran socialist leader and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Late Mulayam Singh Yadav, and medical professional Dilip Mahalanabis, known globally for his work on Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS), were among those conferred the…

NEW DELHI: Veteran politician Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday said Rahul Gandhi is the primary reason why he and many others are not in the Congress today and claimed that one has to be "spineless" to remain in the grand old party. He…

MUMBAI: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has come out in favour of conferring the Bharat Ratna to VD Savarkar, thereby taking a differing stance from its long-term ally Congress over the issue surrounding the controversial freedom…

Lucknow: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Tuesday warned that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) policy of intimidation of the opposition parties would prove harmful for the country. Talking to the reporters at Uttar…

NEW DELHI: Cutting a jibe at protesting Congress leaders inside and outside Parliament Huse, the BJP kept up its counter-offensive against the Congress on the Rahul disqualification issueengaging three Union ministers - Piyush Goyal,…

NEW DELHI: Amid growing convergence, opposition parties pushed for greater unity, warning that the crisis wrought by Modi government is beyond survival politicsor political competition among them. At a dinner meeting hosted by Congress…

NEW DELHI: Striking a combative note a day after his disqualification, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said his Lok Sabha membership was scrapped because of PM Narendra Modiwas scared of his next speech in Parliament, and at the root of his…

[NEW DELHI: Accusing Rahul Gandhi of overstepping all bounds of democracy, BJP president JP Naddaon Sunday said he should be sent packing "lock, stock and barrel" in a democratic manner. "Those who do not believe in democracy have no…

New Delhi: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has alleged that LG Vinai Kumar Saxena is trying to stall major infrastructure projects in the national capital by transferring the Secretary of Public Works Department (PWD) every…

Former Madhya Pradesh Agriculture Minister, Balkrishna Patidar, was seen riding a horse to a village in the state as part of the BJP government's Vikas Yatra. The senior politician was seen controlling the horse alone with a huge crowd…

Mumbai: Eknath Shinde faction can keep the name "Shiv Sena" and the "bow and arrow" symbol, the Election Commission said today. The rival Uddhav Thackeray faction can keep the name "Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray" and the "flaming…

New Delhi: Kolkata: The CPI(M) on Tuesday hit out at the Center over IT "raids" on the British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) offices in Delhi and Mumbai, questioning if India remains the "mother of democracy". CPI(M) General…

Thiruvananthapuram: Senior Congress leader and former Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy was on Sunday airlifted to a private hospital in Bengaluru, party sources said. Mr Chandy had been admitted to a private hospital in nearby…

<!-- --> New Delhi: The Meghalaya Congress on Saturday promised one job to each household, free healthcare for all and free education for all girls up to class 12, if voted to power. In its manifesto for the…

New Delhi: Union Minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar on Sunday hit out at Congress leader Shashi Tharoor after he termed Pervez Musharraf as a 'foe-turned-real force for peace' in his condolence message for the former Pakistan military…

Nanded (Maharashtra): Stating that Maharashtra has recorded the highest number of farmers' suicides in the country, BRS president and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said in Nanded on Sunday that the time has come for farmers…