Ram Gopal’s understanding of electoral laws and procedures helped Akhilesh get the bicycle symbol during the factional feud in the party last year.
Rajbhar was seen sharing dais with Adityanath and the BJP’s top state leadership to prepare for the Rajya Sabha polls.
Pawar seems to be concentrating on low-key meetings with leaders across the political spectrum.
Siddhu, who has in the past hosted laughter challenge shows on television, brought the plenary alive with his style of speech.
When Murli Manohar Joshi came out of Parliament on Thursday, several people approached him for his reaction to BJP’s defeats in the recent by-elections. The minister, a high-profile leader from Maharashtra, left the scene.
In the backdrop of the TDP’s souring ties with BJP, and speculation on the prospect of a new alliance between the ruling party and YSR Congress, the opposition in TDP-governed Andhra Pradesh, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh warned Vijai Sai Reddy of YSR Congress in Rajya Sabha.
The ISC website had listed the Dalai Lama and two other Nobel laureates — Muhammad Yunus and Hiroshi Amano — as those who would attend the event.
Agrawal’s induction into BJP in Delhi came on a day when another SP veteran — Ashok Bajpai — filed nomination papers for Rajya Sabha as BJP candidate in Lucknow.
Neither Ram Gopal Yadav’s preference Naresh Agarwal nor Azam Khan’s preference Munvvar Saleem managed to secure a nomination. Both are set to retire from the Upper House next month.
After deciding on time allocation for various items of business, Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday vent his heart out to leaders who are members of Rajya Sabha business advisory committee. He is learnt to have said in the closed-door meeting that he could not sleep last night, leaving his wife worried. Referring to […]
Pravin Togadia's tweet to PM Modi came about a month after the VHP leader’s mysterious “disappearance” for a day — and subsequent resurfacing in an Ahmedabad park in a semi-conscious state.
Ahead of the declaration of Nagaland poll results on Saturday, Rio on Wednesday quit his Lok Sabha membership. He has been elected to the state Assembly unopposed following withdrawal of candidature by his sole opponent.
The ‘Dr Harsh Vardhan’ app will also have a ‘Hall of Fame’ section, which will detail the work he has done. Though it won’t list the events he will attend every day, it will provide notifications on where he has been, his office said.
Presenting Prime Minister Shram Awards, Venkaiah Naidu said the occasion was a celebration of real GDP —Growth Driving People — from which another GDP flows —Great Dedicated Persons —who are felicitated with Shram Awards.
Pronouncing himself as an “admirer” of Sridevi’s films, Advani emphasised that through her career spanning across different languages, she “symbolised Indian cinema’s great role in national integration”.
Two-and-a-half months after he was suspended from primary membership of Congress party, Mani Shankar Aiyar was spotted at the AICC headquarters on Friday.
While thanking the Congress and its leadership and singing praises for the Congress, Siddiqui took the name of the BSP twice in place of his new party.
Justin Trudeau, who returned to Delhi on Wednesday, will attend a meeting for the business community before he meets PM Narendra Modi for bilateral talks on Friday.
The inauguration of 22nd edition of the World Congress on Information Technology on Monday saw Prime Minister Narendra Modi address the gathering in Hyderabad through video conferencing.
A ring-road for Jaipur is learnt to have become her first priority. And, she has made it known to her officials that she wants the Rs 980-crore project — six-lane 47 km road — completed in six months.
A meeting of the Congress Working Committee has been called on Saturday. One gets to hear that the CWC will be reconstituted soon, and a guessing game has begun in the party on who will remain and who will come in.
Nitin Gadkari is off and on reminded of the political heavy-lifting required to resolve the inter-state water disputes in his role as the Water Resources Minister.
It is not that the former Delhi Chief Minister was convinced easily to share a stage with Ajay Maken. He is learnt to have met her three-four times in the past 20-odd days.
At the peak of the feud, before 2017 UP Assembly elections, Beni Prasad Verma had backed Mulayam Singh Yadav. In response, Akhilesh denied a ticket to Verma’s son from Assembly seat of their choice.
Aiyar, who was once the consul general in Karachi, has fond memories of the city and has many friends and admirers there, and is apparently, a toast of the Pakistan’s literary circuit.


