Key Team Anna member Justice N Santosh Hegde admitted on Wednesday corruption and governance issues did not determine the outcome of Uttar Pradesh elections but said the anti-graft sentiment certainly worked in Goa. Asked if Team An
Five women, including two new legislators, have been elected this time to the Uttarakhand assembly. While four women were elected on Congress tickets, the ruling BJP could send only one woman to the third state Assembly.
Commerce Minister Anand Sharma today defended the government`s decision to ban cotton exports and said he will personally speak to Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to explain the issue. Pawar had yesterday raised strong objection t
A day after his party got a miserable drubbing in the Assembly polls, Peoples Party of Punjab chief Manpreet Singh Badal today accused Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) of using money power to garner votes. "A big factor that went agai
The Samajwadi Party, which got an absolute majority in Uttar Pradesh, would chose its next chief minister after Holi, amid demands from the party`s parliamentary party members that Akhilesh Yadav be handed over the reins of the state.
Newly-elected legislators led by the BJP, will meet Governor K Sankarnarayanan here today to stake claim to form the government in Goa. BJP leader Manohar Parrikar said the letter of support of majority legislators would be produced
The CPI(M) on Wednesday said the Congress had suffered a "setback" in the recent assembly election and the BJP was "not seen as a credible alternative" to that party. The CPI(M) had also performed "poorly&qu
When union steel minister Beni Prasad Verma was booed in Rahul Gandhi`s presence in his constituency in Gonda during the campaign, I asked a senior journalist friend who belongs to the city if he found it surprising. ‘No,’ he said matt
Appreciating the extraordinary roles played by women in different spheres, President Pratibha Patil today said "more works" needs to be done to empower women to make them self sufficient. "Women can play an important role in
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday ruled out any "damage" to the UPA government in the wake of electoral outcomes in which, she said, wrong choice of candidates and weak organisation in UP played a role in the party`s dismal pe
Hours after resigning as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Bahujan Samaj Party chief minister Mayawati blamed everybody and everything but her misgovernance for the her defeat in the recently concluded state elections at a press conference in L
In a big relief to state BJP strongman B S Yeddyurappa, Karnataka High Court on Wednesday quashed an FIR against him in an illegal mining case based on the Lokayukta report that had caused his exit as Chief Minister. A division bench compr
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Wednesday asked the Centre to "discourage" frequent visits of Sri Lankan VIPs to the state as the people were "greatly exercised" over the island government`s conduct on the Tamils issu
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday held a meeting of party general secretaries and office bearers to discuss the outcome of the Assembly elections in five states, including Uttar Pradesh, and the reasons behind it. Gandhi met par
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Wednesday tendered her resignation to Governor B L Joshi after facing a rout in the assembly elections. The chief minister, apparently to avoid waiting news persons, chose to arrive from the back do
Soon after the bypolls to seven Assembly segments scheduled for this month, ruling Congress in Andhra Pradesh faces an uphill task with another round of by-elections necessitated in 17 other constituencies. The present round of bypolls to
Outgoing Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat has said the ruling Congress would have done better in the Assembly polls if he had been projected as the party`s face for the top post. The picture in Goa, where BJP is set to form the new Govern
Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh, considered close to outgoing Chief Minister Mayawati, took premature retirement from service with effect from March 9, official sources said here. "The Cabinet Secretary, whose e
The results of assembly elections in five states as expected are largely unexpected. People’s mandate has once again got better of both politics and newsroom punditry. Samajwadi Party moving towards a clear majority in Uttar Pradesh, Akali-B
Congress on Tuesday sought to take some credit for Samajwadi Party`s victory in Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, saying Rahul Gandhi had made "immense contribution" to creating atmosphere against the "misrule" of Mayawati whic
