Republican Party of India president Ramdas Athawale's supporters on Wednesday staged a rasta roko on the Eastern Express highway in Mulund, Mumbai, alleging that TV channel 'Colors' dropped Athawale from its reality show Bigg Boss-2 because he was a Dalit.
'I am pleased to announce that I have chose Governor Mike Pence as my Vice Presidential running mate,' Donald Trump wrote on his Twitter handle.
Within a few hours of Nitish Kumar leaving the NDA, entirely reasonable people were speculating as to how the CBI or ED could be used against him or his party, notes Mihir S Sharma.
Rediff Labs analysed the past performance of the parties to develop this Sentiment Meter for the 2016 Tamil Nadu election.
Influential United States Senator John McCain, who unsuccessfully ran for President, arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday in an unscheduled visit, to show solidarity in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks and discussed the issue with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. McCain, the Republican Party leader, was on his way to Bangladesh and Bhutan but he made a stopover here in view of the Mumbai strikes, sources said.
RPI leader Ramsad Athavale said the party could consider such an alliance only if the Sena adopted a secular approach.
Thanedar on Friday formally launched in the US Congress the caucus that aims to combat religious discrimination and promote religious freedom for Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Jains.
Donald Trump virtually sealed his Republican nomination for the United States presidential polls on Tuesday night after he scored a major win at the Indiana primary and his nearest rival Texas Senator Ted Cruz bowed out of the race.
American senator Marco Rubio has dropped out of the presidential race after suffering a humiliating defeat at the hands of Republican front runner Donald Trump in his home state of Florida.
Another UP MLA came out in support of Sadhana Singh, saying there was nothing wrong in her remarks.
The 69-year-old Republican front-runner made the blunder while campaigning on the eve of the high-stakes presidential primary in New York by getting the date of the 2001 WTC attacks.
Senior diplomat Devyani Khobragade, who returned to India last week after being indicted for visa fraud in the United States, arrived in Mumbai on Tuesday.
A nearly 1,000-strong crowd staged a brief road blockade at sensitive the Ramabai Ambedkar Nagar locality in Mumbai on Friday night following rumours that Republican Party of India member of Parliament Ramdas Athavale has been arrested in Kanpur
Underworld don Chhota Rajan's brother Deepak Nikalje has been listed as a wanted accused along with 150 others in a rioting case in Mumbai, police said on Thursday.
Obama added that Trump has shown he is "woefully unprepared to do this job" after his comments on military families as well as his handle on foreign affairs.
The Republican-controlled United States House of Representatives has approved a legislation to ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, one of the most stringent pro-life bills to pass a Congressional chamber in a decade.
Donald Trump issued a scathing response to his indictment by a Manhattan grand jury, describing it as 'political persecution' and election interference at the highest level in history and warning that the 'witch-hunt' will backfire massively on United States President Joe Biden.
'With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history,' Trump tweeted on Thursday, just 96 days before the election. 'It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???' Trump said in his tweet, which was immediately condemned by the opposition Democratic party leaders.
He hoped that the candidate 'advances the principles of our party and appeals to a wide, vast majority of Americans'.
A Dalit youth was beaten to death on Wednesday as violence and arson marred the protests that erupted in parts of Maharashtra and Kanpur against the alleged vandalisation of a statue of B R Ambedkar in Kanpur.
The Republican presidential nominee said it would be embarrassing to lose against Clinton.
Dr Murthy, 43, would occupy the position of America's Surgeon General for the second time. In 2011, president Barack Obama tapped him to serve on the advisory group on prevention, health promotion, and integrative and public health.
Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump have both won the most states in the biggest day of the race for the US presidential nomination.
The US has already imposed sanctions on Turkey for the purchase of a batch of S-400 missile defence systems.
Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan has strongly defended free trade in goods and services, now under attack by John Kerry and John Edwards
The former Los Angeles mayor's nomination was pending before the US Congress since July 2021 when he was nominated for the prestigious diplomatic posting by Biden.
The ruling alliance also has some smaller parties like Republican Party of India-Athawale, Asom Gana Parishad, Mizo National Front, National People's Party, Naga People's Front, Pattali Makkal Katchi and Bodoland People's Front, which have one seat each, totalling seven seats.
Responding to questions from reporters on Trump not conceding the race, Biden hoped that at the end it's all going to come to fruition on January 20th.
Wankhede is facing the vigilance probe by NCB after an independent witness in the drugs-on-cruise case, in which Aryan Khan is one of the accused, claimed of overhearing a discussion of a Rs 25 crore pay-off, including Rs 8 crore for Sameer Wankhede.
Nikalje in his application stated that he had gone to Chembur on November 30 to help pacify the mob and not to incite them as claimed by the police in the FIR against him.
Cartoonist's everywhere mourned the death of R K Laxman, who made personified the sublime wit and absurdity of life in his rendition of the Aam Aadmi, better known as Laxman's Common Man. Many fans of Laxman's work came up to the Common Man statue along the Worli seaface and paid their tributes to the artist.
For the first time in a Washington Post-ABC News poll this year, a majority of likely voters now say they plan to vote for Bush in the presidential election.
Reflecting a new sense of bonhomie between India and the United States, top American lawmakers on Wednesday praised the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and underscored that the bilateral relationship has entered a new phase.
Raj Bhavan sources said the swearing-in ceremony will be held at 11 am on Sunday, a day before the monsoon session of the Maharashtra legislature, the last before assembly polls later this year, begins.
The Sena workers a cut seven kilogram cake and also played music on the occasion. The Hindu Sena called Trump the 'saviour of humanity' and the 'messiah against Islamic terror'. They also observed a minute's silence for Orlando victims.
The Sri Lankan company that made the personalised stationery for the US president from paper made of elephant dung is asking people to use its products to help the country's dwindling elephant population.
