The Union Home Ministry has commuted the death sentence of Babbar Khalsa terrorist Balwant Singh Rajoana who was sentenced to death in 2007 for the assassination of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh. The decision has been communicated to the Punjab government and Chandigarh ...
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar, his nephew and former Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and other senior leaders and Legislators of the party held a crucial meeting here on Tuesday to discuss the government formation issue. Prior to the meeting, Ajit Pawar indicated that if the NCP managed to get the ...
The BJP on Tuesday received another setback after its National Democratic Alliance (NDA) ally Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) decided to contest the Jharkhand Assembly polls alone. The 81-member Jharkhand Assembly will vote in five phases starting from November...
Convalescing in hospital after an angioplasty for two blockages in an artery late on Monday night, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut appeared to be ready for the Maharashtra government formation battle on Tuesday. Amid receiving visitors like Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar...
The Communist Party of India's (CPI) Tamil Nadu unit on Tuesday demanded strict action against the police officials who were responsible for the death of an elderly pillion rider during a vehicle check in Villupuram district. According to the police, the incident took place on Sunday evening when the ...
Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' was on Monday confined within the Jawaharlal Nehru University premises for over five hours as hundreds of students laid a virtual siege at the campus, protesting outside the varsity gate against a hike in fees and some other decisions taken by the JNU administration. ...
In one of the last reforms in the oil and gas sector, the government is set to free up pricing of all domestically produced gas that would help scale up local production from fields of ONGC, OIL, Reliance and Vedanta and help create a uniform gas where the fuel is freely tradable on exchanges. ...
The Congress on Monday kept on the suspense on extending support to the Shiv Sena, which looks set to stake its claim to form the government in Maharashtra....
The Indian Railways has decided to start train services in Jammu and Kashmir from Tuesday, for the first time after the state was stripped of its special status and bifurcated into two Union Territories....
The Governor of Maharashtra has adopted the constitutional path to negate horse-trading in run-up to the government formation in the state, say Constitution experts....
