The Bharatiya Janata Party said on Friday that it did not favour quota for dalits, other backward classes and minorities within the proposed reservation of seats for women in Parliament and state legislatures.
Polling in Haryana will take place on February 3 alongside first phase of polling in Bihar and Jharkhand.
Much before Rashtrapati Bhavan confirmed the new ministers' portfolios, we had said who will get what in Narendra Modi's Union council of ministers!
With the expansion and reshuffle, Babulal Gaur ministry has 17 cabinet ministers and 18 ministers of state.
The latest updates from the Tamil film industry.
The Centre said the former sports minister had ordered that the issue of a maximum eight-year term for office-bearers of sports bodies be examined in totality.
Lalu is accused in five of the 39 cases related to the scam.
Uma Bharti has said the letter has been leaked because of cheap politics.
Israel has expressed interest in sharing its expertise on water purification and waste water treatment under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pet project for cleaning river Ganga.
The 16-day yatra began from Hubli in Karnataka and travelled nearly 3,500 km through seven states and one Union territory.
A book by Gandhi's great-granddaughter says he was a loving father but left his sons little choice.
The opposition fear that it could burnish the BJP's image ahead of the forthcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab.
They want 'tainted' ministers dropped, Veer Savarkar's plaque restored at Cellular Jail and Karnataka government to drop the case against Uma Bharti.
Both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned for nearly two hours.
The CBI told the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad HC that provocative speeches by leaders encouraged kar sevaks to demolish the Babri masjid.
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Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told the Rajya Sabha 'the government is absolutely sensitive and seized of the matter'.
The probe into the mysterious death of a 24-year-old woman IT employee, whose decomposed body was found at Siruseri near Chennai, was on Sunday transferred to the Crime Branch-CID of the Tamil Nadu Police, a senior police official said.
During his 15-year-tenure in the office, Chouhan transformed himself from being a shy, simple and vulnerable politician to a wily leader with mass appeal.
The petitioner is seeking formulation of a comprehensive national flag code for stopping the use and abuse of the tricolour for personal and political gains.
Rashtriya Janata Dal president and Railway Minister Lalu Prasad on Sunday appealed to the Liberhan Commission to summon two journalists of Time magazine for their version of the events leading to the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya.
These characters have entertained us despite the fact that they do not have any name at all.
Sixteen of them were sworn in as Cabinet ministers and three as ministers of state with independent charge.
'Anyone on Indian Twitter, Facebook, or any of the other forms of social media that matter (except elite forums like Instagram) understands instantly that it is dominated by upper-caste North Indian men.' 'Other voices are silenced and attacked,' says Mihir S Sharma.
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