Reiterating that the government was strong and stable, Andhra Pradesh Finance Minister Anam Ramanarayana Reddy said that the government was not falling in minority after the alleged reports of the suspension of 9 MLAs by the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC). He dismissed these reports as baseless, saying that the PCC president Botcha Sat

After a free and frank exchange of views at his first three-day formal interaction with AICC office bearers, Rahul Gandhi will be holding similar exercises with state level leaders soon. Sources in the party said it has been decided that the exercise will be carried out but details are yet to be chalked out. At the concluding day of the three

The Election Commission has cautioned Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar against misuse of official machinery for political purposes in violation of the Model Code of Conduct. The action against Sarkar was taken at a meeting of the Election Commission chaired by Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath in New Delhi, after discussing the issue an

BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi has defended party president Rajnath Singh's directive to party members not to speak on the Prime Ministerial candidate issue and said till now no demand for choosing Narendra Modi for the post has come up before BJP Parliamentary Board. "He (Singh) has not stopped members from freedom of expression. He has o

The Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) has decided to mount pressure on the ruling party MLAs of the region by taking up a series of protest programmes in their constituencies from February 16 to 21. Giving the details to reporters in Hyderabad, TJAC leaders C. Vittal, V. Srinivas Goud and A. Dayakar said posters would be displayed and pamp

Nirmal police on Tuesday filed a petition in the court of the Judicial First Class Magistrate (JFCM) K. Ajesh Kumar for calling the tapes of debates in A.P. Legislative Assembly in which Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi had participated. The legislator’s debates in Urdu language, as well as samples of his voice collecte

Expressing varied stands on issues of right to expression, BJP has said Kashmir's all-girl band Pragaash is being banned due to a politics of vote but justified protests by VHP's Durga Vahini against a nude art exhibition as an example of upholding order and morality. "Within the Constitutional provisions there are fundamental rights which s

Newly appointed Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is likely to adopt a "gradual and incremental" approach in implementing his 'vision' for the party and will largely retain his mother and Congress president Sonia Gandhi's core team to deliver results in ensuing Assembly and Parliamentary elections. "He will retain more or less the same faces

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will speak at a leading Delhi University college on Wednesday. He will address students and the faculty of Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), which has produced a string of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, including Arun Jaitley, Vijay Goel, Jagdish Mukhi and Vijay Jolly. “Modi will speak around 4

The scheduled visit of Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday to his parliamentary constituency of Amethi for the first time as Congress vice president has been postponed due to inclement weather, party sources said. "The two-day tour (by Rahul) has been postponed and will now start from Thursday," party spokesman Akhilesh Pratap Singh said. The region has rec