The BSP leader won the Bijnor Lok Sabha seat in 1989, her first electoral triumph. Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh will vote in the first phase on April 19. The history of the Bijnor Lok Sabha......
The Rashtriya Janata Dal-led Mahagathbandhan in Bihar on Friday announced its formula for seat-sharing, with Lalu Prasad's party laying claim on nearly two-thirds of the state's 40 parliamentary......
Morarji Desai, India's first non Congress prime minister, was born on February 29, 1896. Mr Desai was 81 when he was elected prime minister and ruled India for two years, from March 1977 to July......
The death toll in an explosion and subsequent fire in a paint factory in outer Delhi's Alipur area has climbed to 11 with four more bodies recovered from the premises, police said on Friday. Four......
At a time when the BJP's stars are at the top on the eve of the Lok Sabha polls, the Puri-Joshimath Sankaracharyas may have kick-started a row whose efforts might be to divide Hindus, not in the......
While India's largest FMCG company remains a breeding ground for managerial talent, the aggression and independence that characterised its former chiefs can hardly be seen. "It's been......
In a multimedia feature called "The making of India's Budget" on the Business Standard website, former finance minister Yashwant Sinha makes the point that this annual exercise touches every aspect......
Almost half of the nearly 60 institutions and schemes run by the Centre are named after the Nehru-Gandhi family, while Mahatma Gandhi's name figures in just four of these.According to information......