Congress-TMC in heated war of words over lone MLA joining Mamata

The Congress and the Trinamool Congress engaged in a verbal duel after the grand old party's lone MLA in West Bengal crossed over to the state's ruling party, and accused one another of working......

Denied ticket, MLA Kumaraswamy quits BJP in Karnataka

Mudigere’s Bharatiya Janata Party MLA, M P Kumaraswamy, on Thursday announced his resignation from the party, after he was denied ticket to contest the Karnataka assembly polls, and blamed......

Nitish miffed over JD-U backing Nagaland govt, disbands local unit

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal-United on Wednesday described as "high indiscipline" and "arbitrary" the support extended by its Nagaland unit to the newly formed government in that......

Congress props up ex-BSP leaders ahead of UP local bodies polls

While Brijlal Khabri, former BSP MP from Jalaun, is UP Congress Committee chairman, former UP cabinet minister and Mayawati’s once close confidant Naseemuddin Siddiqui heads the party’s......

What BJP wants in Budget: Not tax cut, but solutions to 'real problems'

Sources said much has been done to ease the tax burden of the middle classes in the last five years, and that such a measure affects only a limited segment of people when the focus should be to put......

'He comes out with so many novel ideas'

'The trading community will be a priority for Modi when he forms the next government.'Subhayan Chakraborty and Nivedita Mookerji report. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Five years ago, then......