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Stripped of portfolios, NCP minister Manikrao Kokate no stranger to row: Rummy trouble to housing scam

December 19, 2025 10:50 am

A five-time MLA from Sinnar in Nashik, Kokate has been convicted and sentenced to 2 year jail term in a 1995 case over illegal allotment of a government flat under CM’s discretionary quota, which also threatens his House membership

West Bengal Sports Minister resigns over Messi event chaos: Who is Aroop Biswas?

December 17, 2025 1:34 pm

The Tollygunj MLA since 2006, Biswas and his brother Swaroop are the Trinamool Congress's links to the Bengali film and entertainment industry.

Lucknow Mayor stirs row over inspecting slums in search of ‘illegal immigrants’, ‘Rohingya’: Who is Sushma Kharakwal?

December 09, 2025 9:55 am

The BJP leader is no stranger to controversies, with her style of functioning rubbing corporation officials the wrong way and even dividing even BJP leaders.

At centre of Parliament 'dogfight', Renuka Chowdhury’s stormy journey: NTR protégé to Congress firebrand

December 10, 2025 5:48 pm

The outspoken ex-Union minister, who has been a multiple-term Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MP from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, is no stranger to controversy, with her colleagues calling her “defiance personified”

JP Movement veteran who once ran a pharma business: Meet new Bihar Speaker Prem Kumar

December 02, 2025 10:10 am

The only one to file his nomination papers, the choice of the nine-time BJP MLA puts to rest speculation about a tussle between the JD(U) and his party over the Speaker's post

Jharkhand Congress leader and Health Minister Irfan Ansari

Jharkhand Congress Minister in eye of SIR storm over 'lock up' BLOs remark: Who is Irfan Ansari

November 26, 2025 9:24 am

EC seeks a report from Jamtara administration over Ansari's remarks; the three-term MLA, who is no stranger to controversy, had been booked by Bengal police for carrying “illicit cash”

Newsmaker | Who is Mukesh Sahani, the Mahagathbandhan’s Bihar Deputy CM face

October 24, 2025 2:12 am

The Vikassheel Insaan Party chief may have no MLAs but carries the weight of the Nishad vote, could fill the gap in Bihar of a pan-EBC leader

Newsmaker | Suresh Gopi caught on the wrong foot again: The actor as an unlikely politician

September 26, 2025 4:23 pm

His star power made him BJP’s ideal face in Kerala. However, his gruffness and failure to mould himself as a typical politician are worrying party

Congress-turned-BJP star MLA, Aditi Singh back in UP fireworks, this time burns BJP

September 22, 2025 8:59 pm

The BJP’s lone MLA from Congress bastion of Raebareli, Aditi accuses officials of threatening, extorting bribes from vendors; takes potshots at fellow BJP leader

Now also in Mumbai Raj Bhavan, meet the longest serving Governor under Modi govt – Acharya Devvrat

September 19, 2025 10:30 am

The Gujarat Governor who has got additional charge of Maharashtra, after C P Radhakrishnan was elected Vice-President, is fond of talking of his farm and also prides himself as an educator