India Politics

New Delhi: The Hurriyat Conference should not be given a "larger than life profile" as it does not represent the people of Jammu and...

By IANS, Bangalore: The Election Commission of India is bracing up to conduct election to the Karnataka legislative assembly by May as the five-year term of the present house (13th) ends June 3.

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By IANS, Hyderabad : Stepping up pressure on the central leadership over the Telangana issue, Congress MPs from Andhra Pradesh, state ministers and legislators have decided to resign Monday.

Srinagar : Hurriyat Conference leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Wednesday said any proposed talks on Jammu and Kashmir should involve all stakeholders including Pakistan. Terming...

अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net सीमांचल: बिहार चुनाव में पहली बार उतरी असदुद्दीन ओवैसी की पार्टी ‘ऑल इंडिया मजलिस-ए-इत्तेहादुल मुस्लिमीन’ (मजलिस) के लिए हौसला बढ़ाने वाली...

By IANS Chennai : The PMK, which supports the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu, Friday said it would float a new political front with the Congress and other parties to fight the DMK and the opposition AIADMK during the 2011 assembly elections. PMK founder-leader S. Ramadoss told reporters: "We are certain of capturing power because the two parties have failed on all counts. In recent times, the DMK regime's record on maintenance of law and order has been pathetic. Therefore, the new formation is a historic necessity."

By TwoCircles.net staff reporter New York: It is a bitter reality that the majority of the Indian society consisting of Dalits and Muslims have long been exploited politically, economically and socially, said Ram Vilas Paswan, Indian Union Minister for Steel and president of Federation of Dalit and Minority International Forum, at the 17th Annual Convention of American Federation of Muslims from India (AFMI).

Patna(IANS) : Hundreds of angry lawyers and locals held a daylong protest in Bihar's Begusarai town Friday over the killing of a senior advocate allegedly by Lok Janshakti Party MP P. Surajbhan Singh, a known muscleman in the state. A First Information Report (FIR) has been lodged against Singh and two others in connection with the murder Thursday evening of Additional Public Prosecutor Ramnaresh Sharma, 55. Sharma, a noted human rights activist known for his vocal stand against criminals, was shot dead by two unidentified criminals at his residence in Begusarai.

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New Delhi: The AAP government in Delhi on Friday launched "Chief Minister's Super Talented Children Scholarship Scheme 2015-16". Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said:...

New Delhi : A 20-year-old soldier injured in the Uri terror attack died of injuries in a Delhi hospital on Monday, taking the toll...

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By IANS, Kolkata: An activist of the Communist Party of India-Marxist's (CPI-M) student wing Tuesday died of a head injury in police custody after participating in a protest.

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By Andalib Akhter, TwoCircles.net, Ghaziabad/New Delhi: The Ghaziabad parliamentary constituency in the vicinity of the national capital of Delhi has become hub of political activities these days. Not only is the political future of Rajnath Singh at stake here, but also of the BJP that he heads. Every contestants here are vying fro the Muslim votes, so do the BJP.

By IANS, Patna : Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Saturday admitted that breaking away from the Congress was the "biggest mistake" that resulted in his party's "heavy" defeat in Bihar. "It was the biggest mistake. And there is no doubt that breaking away from Congress has resulted in our heavy defeat," Lalu Prasad told reporters here.

Thiruvananthapuram : Leader of Opposition V.S. Achuthanandan Tuesday said that employees in certain TV channels in Kerala are not getting their salaries on time. "Employees...

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Srinagar : Former Chief Minister and National Conference President Farooq Abdullah on Monday pledged support to separatist Hurriyat leaders, asking them to carry the...

By IANS, Mumbai : Spurred by the passing of the bill to create a separate Telangana state out of Andhra Pradesh, political parties in Maharashtra,...

By IANS, Lucknow : With Amar Singh out, Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav is clearly out to replace him with Raja Bhaiya as the party's new Thakur mascot. Less known by his real name, Raghuraj Pratap Singh, independent MLA Raja Bhaiya hosted a party at his residence here Thursday night, with most prominent Samajwadi Party leaders, led by former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh, on the guest list.

By IANS, Bangalore : Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) supremo and former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda will spearhead the Third Front of eight parties in Karnataka as an alternative force for the upcoming general elections in April-May. "The Third Front will be launched first in Karnataka and extended to other states subsequently in alliance with other secular parties, as we want to maintain equi-distance from the Congress as well as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)," Gowda told IANS Monday soon after dates for the parliamentary polls were announced in New Delhi by the Election Commission.

Shimla : Himachal Pradesh Governor Kalyan Singh's decision to decline sanctio for the prosecution of former chief minister and BJP leader Prem Kumar Dhumal...

By IANS, New Delhi : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Communist Party of India -Marxist (CPI-M) welcomed Rajya Sabha chairman Hamid Ansari's decision to suspend seven MPs disrupting the house and asked the government to discuss and pass the women's quota bill Tuesday itself.

By IANS, New Delhi : Even as aviation fuel prices have softened globally with some major international carriers cutting fuel surcharge, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel Thursday said there was little possibility of immediate reduction in air fares. "We hope that aviation fuel prices will have an effect on air fares. But to say this will happen immediately will not be correct as of now," the minister said on the sidelines of an exhibition on airports here. "If the fuel prices remain constant or fall, we can expect low air fares in the coming few months," he added.

By IANS, Hyderabad : Performing beyond expectations, the Congress party swept the Lok Sabha polls in Andhra Pradesh Saturday, winning 33 out of 42 seats in the state. The ruling party bagged the majority of seats despite facing a four-party alliance led by main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and the newly formed Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) of superstar Chiranjeevi.

By IANS, New Delhi : Protesting a reported case of animal sacrifice carried out by a Samajwadi Party leader, the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has written to the party's leaders that the act “tarnishes their triumph” in the recent floor test in parliament.

By Amulya Ganguli, The Congress High Command, which is a pseudonym for party president Sonia Gandhi, must have realized by now that securing a clean...

New Delhi : The son of senior BJP leader and former minister Yashwant Sinha, Jayant Sinha, 51, was elected to the Lok Sabha this...

By IANS, Kolkata: Subrata Mukherjee, the working president of the West Bengal state Congress unit, Wednesday formally joined the Trinamool Congress, accusing his former party of being hand-in-glove with the state's ruling communists. In a joint media meet, Mukherjee and Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee alleged that the Congress had hatched a conspiracy to help the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led Left Front government in the coming civic polls. Mukherjee was named as the party's senior vice president and campaign committee chief for the civic polls.

By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, Nagina/Bijnor: In most elections, the battle is two way contest or at most three ways, still what inspires so many other individuals and smaller parties to field their candidates, many of whom often forfeit their deposits as they fail to register even the minimum votes required.

Perambavoor (Kerala) : The police has so far arrested about a dozen people in connection with the murder last week of Dalit law student...

Kolkata : The files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose that were declassified by the West Bengal government on Friday contain letters supporting the...

By IANS, Raipur : India's crucial state elections began Friday with tens of thousands of people defying Maoist threats to vote in the first phase of polling in Chhattisgarh amid widespread violence blamed on the rebels. Though only four policemen were injured, in two separate places when the Maoists exploded landmines, the government got a taste of the reach of the guerrillas who had ordered people to boycott the elections.

New Delhi:Syed Ahmed Bukhari's brother, Yahya, Saturday opposed the decision of the Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid to support the Congress in the...

By Shaj Hameed, The February month cover story of the popular narrative magazine, The Caravan, published from Delhi, has already been discussed and debated a lot. Hindutva extremist Aseemanand, speaking to the magazine’s journalist Ms. Leena Regunath, revealed that all the bomb blasts carried out by his team had been with the RSS leadership’s knowledge and approval. Furthermore, the RSS’s national leaders including its general secretary Mohan Bhagwat and national executive member Indresh Kumar had met Assemanand in person and pleaded with him to go ahead with the attacks, at the same time advising him to take care as to not link such terror acts with Sangh Parivar Organisations, especially the RSS. Aseemanand, who has been accused in five bomb blasts across the country which killed a total of 199 innocent people, also revealed that Narendra Modi, Gujarat’s chief minister and BJP’s prime ministerial candidate for the next general elections, was a fan and supporter of his extremist activities.

By IANS, Thiruvananthapuram/New Delhi: K. Muraleedharan, the son of former Kerala chief minister K. Karunakaran, met Congress leaders, including party general secretary in charge of Kerala Mohsina Kidwai and Defence Minister A.K. Antony in the national capital to push his case for re-entry into the party, which could take some time. Mohsina Kidwai told reporters in Delhi that Muraleedharan's re-entry will not happen all of a sudden.

By IANS, Bangalore: R. Ashoka has been made the new home minister of Karnataka after the 34-member state cabinet was reshuffled Wednesday following the induction of six cabinet ministers.

By IANS, New Delhi : The Supreme Court Thursday gave a clean chit to Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, saying that the 2006 allegation of gang rape against him and his friends was fake.

For the past nine years, Malegaon has been under the shadow of the blasts that rocked the textile town in September 2006. In the...

By IANS, New Delhi : The ruling Congress Wednesday distanced itself from Minority Affairs Minister A.R. Antulay controversial remarks on slain Maharashtra ATS chief Hemant Karkare, suggesting he was a "victim of terrorism plus something" and that his killing Nov 26 during the Mumbai terror attacks could be linked to his probe into the Malegaon blasts. "The Congress certainly does not subscribe to his remarks or with his formulation," party spokesman Abhishek Manu Sanghvi told reporters hours after Antulay made his remarks.

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By IANS, New Delhi : Political parties Wednesday said they are ready for the Lok Sabha elections, which will be held by May 18 as indicated by Election Commisssioner S.Y. Quraishi. “Although it has not been announced officially, it was expected that elections would be held by mid-May and we are ready for it. We have been serving the people for five years and it has been a kind of preparation. We are ready to go to the electorate,” said Shakeel Ahmad, spokesperson of the Congress that leads the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.

New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that once External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tells the nation how much money she...

By IANS, New Delhi : Former BJP president L.K. Advani said Thursday that while people were angry with the UPA government, they were upset with the Bharatiya Janata Party too.

By Mohit Dubey, IANS, Gorakhpur/Lucknow : The Congress is seeking to counter NaMo chai with RaGa (Rahul Gandhi) milk. A week after BJP's prime ministerial candidate...

By IANS, New Delhi : The prime ministerial-candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lal Krishna Advani, who turns 81 Saturday, will launch his own website from his home. "The website, to be called lkadvani.in, is the most comprehensive website of any political leader in the country," Advani's close colleague Sudheendra Kulkarni told IANS Thursday. "The website has as many as 700 pages and 350 images, besides being interactive," said Kulkarni, who, along with his team, has put together the site.

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Mumbai: Amid indications of a hung assembly, the Shiv Sena Sunday said the next Maharashtra chief minister will be Uddhav Thackeray. "Whatever happens, the next...

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By Amulya Ganguli, IANS Just as the Indian cricket team often faces a back-to-the-wall "must win" situation in order to retrieve its honour, the Congress too has to emerge victorious in a majority of the state assembly elections this year if it is to have any hope of winning the next general election in 2009.

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Thiruvananthapuram: Springing a big surprise, the CPI-M in Kerala seems to have roped in hugely popular comedy and character artiste Innocent to contest the...

Kolhapur (Maharashtra): A court here in Maharashtra on Wednesday extended by two days the police custody of Samir Gaikwad of Hindu right-wing group Sanatan...

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By IANS New Delhi : Senior cabinet ministers Thursday voiced concern over the media reporting of the Mumbai violence which some of them felt sparked panic and led to a mass exodus from the city to Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. The ministers expressed their outrage at a cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a day after Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray was arrested on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and then bailed out.

Kolkata : Putting rest to speculations that the West Bengal Assembly polls - due next year- may be advanced, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on...

By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net, Bhopal:The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, (BJP), in Madhya Pradesh received a setback on Tuesday when Election Commission of India, (ECI), filed a complaint against the Public Health Engineering and Co-operatives Minister Gauri Shankar Bisen for alleged violation of the model code of conduct.

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Lucknow : Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for an ambitious 'city gas system' in his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi on...

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Ranchi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said Tuesday the Gujarat model of development would burst after the Lok Sabha election - as the BJP's...

By IANS, New Delhi : Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Saturday urged state party leaders to meet people and workers to strengthen the party.

New Delhi : A Congress delegation met President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday to seek removal of University of Hyderabad Vice Chancellor P. Appa Rao...

Panaji : The Goa Police cyber cell Monday seized a laptop, a hard drive and an internet dongle used by 31-year-old Devu Chodankar and...

By IANS, Aizawl : The ruling Mizo National Front (MNF) and the main opposition Congress were neck and neck in the race for power in Mizoram as votes polled in assembly elections were counted Monday. According to early trends, the Congress was leading in three seats and the MNF in two. Mizoram has a 40-member assembly and Mizos voted Dec 2.

By IANS, Hyderabad : Andhra Pradesh Thursday remembered one of its greatest leaders, late chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, who had died in a helicopter crash a year ago, leaving the state in shock. Rich tributes were paid to YSR - as he was popularly called - and, at various programmes held across the state, he was recalled as a man especially concerned about the welfare of the poor.

By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, Mumbai: An anxiety has started to develop amongst the Muslim community in Maharashtra as it will be the first year that...

By IANS, Patna : Bihar is poised to be one of the leading states in India, asserted Chief Minister Nitish Kumar whose NDA government completed four years in power Tuesday. "Our state is poised to be counted as one of the leading states in the country. The central government and other state governments have not only applauded some of the innovative schemes started by us, but have adopted them as well," Kumar said. He was releasing a report card here on his government's performance during its four years in office.

By IANS, Thiruvananthapuram : The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will field four candidates in Kerala in the Lok Sabha elections. NCP state president K. Muraleedharan, son of former chief minister and Congress leader K. Karunakaran, will contest from Wayanad, former minister M.P. Gangadharan from Thiruvananthapuram, Mani C. Kappen at Pathanamthitta and Razak Moulavi in Palakkad, he announced late Sunday.

By IANS, New Delhi : By-elections to West Bengal's Bhowanipore assembly seat, from where Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is seeking to enter the assembly, will be held Sep 25.

Thiruvananthapuram : Kerala Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala Saturday said that Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy should apologise for calling Mahatma Gandhi a casteist. "She should...