Politics

BJP president JP Nadda's convoy was attacked with bricks and stones near Kolkata this afternoon and many cars were damaged. BJP leaders were also injured in the attack, the party alleged, accusing the Mamata Banerjee government of serious lapses in security. Home Minister Amit Shah has asked for a report on what he called "sponsored violence" and said Bengal's...

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President JP Nadda today, accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of being synonymous with "intolerance", and exuded confidence about forming the next government in the state with more than 200 seats. Mr Nadda, who arrived on a two-day West Bengal visit, criticised the "dynastic politics" of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and other parties in...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah's meeting with protesting farmers on Tuesday evening - indicating the involvement of the government's highest level to resolve the deadlock over the contentious farm laws - failed, with both sides remaining firm on their positions. The farmers refused to accept the government's offer of amendment in the laws, sticking to their demand for a...

The Aam Admi Party (AAP) today alleged that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been placed under house arrest by Delhi Police since Monday, particularly in the wake of his visit to the Singhu border on Monday and the Bharat Bandh called today by farmers protesting against the new central agricultural laws. The party said that under the Union home...

BJP's Avinash Kumar Singh on Sunday bagged the Lucknow graduates' constituency seat for Uttar Pradesh legislative council with his party emerging winner on total three seats and SP on two out of the five seats following a tough fight for them. As per the results declared for graduates' constituency seats gradually since Saturday, BJP bagged a total of three seats...

The seven-hour meeting between the Centre and farmers today failed to end the deadlock, with farmers' representatives saying nothing less than the scrapping of the contentious laws will satisfy them. Union agriculture minister Narendra Tomar, who led the negotiations, said the government "has no ego". The next meeting will be held on Saturday. "We will ask the government tomorrow...

Veteran BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi on Wednesday filed his nomination papers for by-election to a Rajya Sabha seat in Bihar which has been necessitated by the death of Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan. Sushil Kumar Modi filed his nomination papers at the Patna Commissioner office in presence of a host of leaders of the ruling NDA, most notable being...

A former High Court judge, CS Karnan, was arrested today over offensive comments he allegedly made against woman judges and wives of judges, which were posted on YouTube. The ex-judge was arrested by the Chennai police. He had allegedly made defamatory and offensive comments against Supreme Court and High Court judges, the wives of judges and uploaded them online. The Madras High...

The farmers' representatives have turned down the Centre's second pitch for a committee to discuss the contentious farm laws, protests against which are intensifying by the day. "Now is not the time for a committee," sources quoted farmers' representatives as saying at the meeting with three central ministers this evening. A second meeting will be held on December 3....

Union Home Minister Amit Shah, in Hyderabad on Sunday to campaign for next week's municipal election, highlighted the floods that brought the city to a standstill last month, and asked voters for "one chance" to show how the BJP could change the city for the better, and take it from "dynasty to democracy" and from "corruption to transparency". Addressing a...