The senior leader wants the prime ministership to be restricted to only those born of Indian parents.
People close to the erstwhile royal family underline that Jyotiraditya Scindia is neither as accessible nor as unpretentious as his father.
In the past the Congress had cold-shouldered overtures from the Samajwadi Party chief, leading to bad blood between the two parties.
Members of the ruling Samajwadi Party and Bharatiya Janata Party came to blows in the Uttar Pradesh assembly on Friday after the House was adjourned over accusations on the recent Muzaffarangar riots which claimed 47 lives.
Two city police constables were dismissed from duty on Sunday for allegedly attempting to sexually assault a minor girl in the Mukherjee Nagar area of northwest Delhi, police said.
In a major jolt to the Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh, none of the candidates supported by it could ensure victory in the Cantonment Board polls in Varanasi and Lucknow, and managed to win just one seat in Agra.
Raghunath scored a hat-trick in a 4-1 victory over Bangladesh in the final.
Discarded by the Bharatiya Janata Party within hours of his admission into the party, controversial chief of fringe right wing outfit Sri Ram Sene, Pramod Muthalik, on Tuesday announced he would contest the Lok Sabha polls against state saffron party chief Prahlad Joshi from Dharwad.
Former Home Secretary G K Pillai's remarks on affidavit regarding LeT links of Ishrat Jahan on Friday triggered a political war of words with Congress questioning the timing of his claims and alleging that he was only parroting the ruling BJP's words.
Of the 104, three persons, including Yadav and his two associates, were killed during the operation.
'If Vajpayee's BJP saw a chance to redefine India's nuclear theology, Modi's BJP has scarcely paid any attention to it.'
The company's profit stood at Rs 292.79 crore (Rs 2.92 billion) in the year-ago period.
'Ask the chief minister to give in writing that the police must not do their job. We will back down and stop checking vehicles.' Days after DSP Shreshta Thakur confronted BJP workers, she was transferred.
Against the backdrop of the opposition closing ranks on the CAA issue and the BJP faring poorly in several state elections recently, the 2022 electoral battle is unlikely to be a cakewalk for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, reports Virendra Singh Rawat.
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A list of some prominent political families of the BJP.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra asked the Centre to suggest names on Wednesday itself for its consideration and appointment in the proposed SIT.
The situation is worse in the Gandhi family pocket borough -- Amethi and Raebareli.
In a video conference with the chief ministers, fourth such interaction since March 22 when he first spoke to them about the pandemic, Modi stressed on the need for the states to strictly enforce lockdown guidelines in the coronavirus hotspots zones, and strongly pitched for the mantra of 'do gaz doori' (a distance of two yards) to protect people from the infection, according to a government statement.
In a veiled attacked on Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray has said that he had told Rajnath Singh to continue as the BJP president till the Maharashtra assembly elections and had he been at the helm of affairs the alliance would not have broken.
The court had on Wednesday held that the previous SIT had not carried out further probe into these 186 cases in which closure reports were filed
Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar had dissuaded Gopinath Munde from joining the Congress when the sulking Bharatiya Janata Party leader was planning a switch as he felt neglected, according to Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut.
The opposition parties snatched the high-profile Kairana LS seat in from BJP with a united force.
A SIT was set up for fresh investigation into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases in Delhi and some other states.
'After Vajpayee-Advani, Modi-Shah is the second best in India.'
Rediff.com looks at other sensational murder mysteries that left India shell-shocked.
With the arrival of new players such as Amazon Pay, Google Tez and Flipkart's PhonePe, digital money companies are now changing their business pitch.
Talented Mumbai batsman Shreyas Iyer with an attacking 138 stole the show on the final day on Friday as the team's Ranji Trophy Group 'C' match against Tamil Nadu petered out to a draw at the Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy BKC in Mumbai.
Union Minister P Chidambaram has opted out of the Lok Sabha election with the party on Thursday night nominating his son Karti from his constituency Sivaganga in Tamil Nadu while another Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad was brought as a candidate from Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir.
This phase of voting was crucial for the state's ruling Samajwadi Party and main opposition Bahujan Samaj Party.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday brushed aside former Union Minister Arun Shourie's statement that Prime Minister Narendra Modi 'managed headlines instead of economy', saying that the former had made such a remark since he was in pain for not being a part of the NDA government anymore.
Newly-appointed chief ministerial candidate Sheila Dikshit and state chief Raj Babbar came out all guns blazing against the SP, BSP and BJP.
The central government has announced national mourning on Monday.
A glance through the declared assets of candidates contesting the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections reveals that future lawmakers of the country are rich, but not as much as their spouses.
The roadshow will begin from Kachahari at 12 noon after party leaders garland the statue of BR Ambedkar and will cover a distance of around eight kilometers in three hours.
"I thank the high command for imposing their trust on me and assigning me this big responsibility," she said soon after the announcement.
Five persons were killed and nearly 200 others fell ill after inhaling ammonia gas which leaked from a gas tanker after it accidentally brushed against a flyover near Ludhiana, triggering panic in the area.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday commenced hearing to revisit its two-decade-old 'Hindutva' judgement for an authoritative pronouncement on electoral law categorising misuse of religion for electoral gains as "corrupt practice".
