Following are the names of some high-profile people who have been put behind the bars
Party leaders are being forced to bite the tongue while answering queries on cut money and alleged arrogance of local TMC leaders.
Arvind Kejriwal warned the media that "very big forces" would try and break the INDIA alliance by showing that there was a lot of acrimony among them.
Following the Budget being announced by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, leaders across the political spectrum provided their views.
In the last 75 years, there have been multiple calls for a gender-neutral term for the head of the State and debates over it.
The IOA ad-hoc committee on Wednesday decided to hold much-awaited Asian Games wrestling trials on July 22-23.
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty went down fighting to Olympic champions Lee Yang and Wang Chi-Lan of Chinese Taipei at the Japan Open.
Paloma Sharma -- the only non-middle aged, non-canine member of the home -- on a Sunday spent at the bank.
Neta app claims BJP is down to 212 seats from its 2014 tally of 282.
While many of them have already switched loyalties, others are waiting for right options before moving out of their zones of discomfort.
With the new post, the Thackeray junior, 27, who already heads Yuva Sena, will now be a part of the Sena's core team.
In a bid to strike an emotional chord with the youth, actor and Samajwadi Party nominee from Lucknow Sanjay Dutt on Saturday said that he was ready to face bullets while struggling for their cause. "I am here to struggle with you all and I am ready to face lathis and bullets in the process. We will fight unitedly for the cause of the party and youths," Dutt said while addressing a state convention of the SP's youth wing.
Rediff.com takes a look at the seven most viewed leaders on the netapedia website.
Both the leaders are expected to join the BJP during the scheduled rallies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the state in the coming days.
Although Muslims in Varanasi are clearly disconcerted by Narendra Modi's Hindutva agenda and are fearful of the future, they believe his emergence on the national political stage will not disturb the famous 'Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb.'
With photographs of some of India's top politicians, Rediff.com's Mukhtar Ahmad travelled across Srinagar to test if the common man knows his leaders. Here's what he found out.
If you ever thought that India's lawmakers could not get any worse, think again!
'If you are weak economically, you automatically lag behind in other aspects of life.'
Rediff.com takes a look at star netas, some newbies, a few veterans, adding up to the glam quotient of Indian politics.
The SP's bid to dent the BJP's formidable social equation is playing out in a big way in the Poorvanchal or eastern region of Uttar Pradesh as the ruling party is working overtime to keep its caste equation unharmed.
"Decision will be taken soon. The commission is examining the matter," highly-placed sources said.
"I am doing the role of Salman's mother in the film, a light-hearted comedy," Beena Kak, Rajasthan ex-minister, said. \n\n
Controversial Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament Sakshi Maharaj's comments have once again put the Narendra Modi government in a jam. Though the party swiftly slapped a show cause notice on Maharaj, asking him to explain why action should not be initiated against him for his controversial remarks in the recent past, the man denied it, saying it was the 'BJP's internal matter.'
The agenda would also include organisational polls and a fresh membership drive, though "national role for Nitish" is likely to dominate the narrative.
Frequent chants of "netaji amar rahe, amar rahe amar rahe (long live netaji!)" by lakhs of people rent the air.
24% claim exemption from income tax or say they have no income at all, discovers Manoj K.
Prime Minister Modi described the DMK chief as a prolific thinker and a deep-rooted mass leader who stood for regional aspiration and national progress.
"You can see all of us working together. There is no discontent. The problem is, today newspapers have more pages than before, news channels run 24X7 and then there is social media where anybody can say anything without worrying about backing a claim with facts," he said.
Fearing defeat in the upcoming high-pressure polls, state Congress chiefs are reluctant to fight from their constituencies, eye a shift. Anita Katyal reports
Given the depleting mass base of the regional Asom Gana Parishad led by former chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, a section of senior leaders of the party are waiting in the wings to join the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is gaining ground in Assam.
The social media giant promised that news and views will be checked for veracity and pejorative content will be weeded out.
Social media is the new advertising tool for today's politicians and political parties, says Viveat Susan Pinto
As the issue becomes increasingly politicised and accusations are traded on national television, the average Delhi resident suffers debilitating blows from viral fevers, writes Manavi Kapur.
One of several jokes doing the rounds these days is about the launch of a new political party, called the Tihar Munnetra Kazhagam.
Singh was reacting to a statement by the saffron leader recently that Digvijaya and Shatrughan Sinha should not be taken seriously.
The Supreme Court passed two verdicts last week that attempted to deal with the undoubted menace of India's increasingly criminalised politics. It is, however, not clear whether these verdicts, cumulatively, will deliver the results that the petitioners sought.
Did you know that 98 politicians with corruption cases have been given election tickets by various parties in the last 5 years?
'About 90 per cent of our netas have no loyalty and will go with the winner.'
Where the larger-than-life villain hogged the show by hurting the hero or throwing hurdles in his path, the role of his female counterpart has evolved from seductive sidekick to she-devil.
The burgeoning mobile user base in the country has given the political parties an opportunity to take their campaigns directly to the people.
