Politics

The Bihar election will be held in three phases on October 28, November 3 and 7 and the results will be announced on November 10, the Election Commission said today. This is the world's biggest election to be held in the middle of the coronavirus crisis. Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora called it a "leap of faith", pointing out that...

The Election Commission is set to announce the schedule for Bihar assembly elections on Friday. The EC has convened a press conference in this regard at 12.30 pm on Friday. The term of the 243-member Bihar legislative assembly comes to an end on November 29. The Commission is likely to announce the schedule for the by-election to one Lok Sabha and 64...

With the opposition deciding to boycott the Rajya Sabha, its eight suspended MPs on Tuesday ended their overnight sit-in inside the Parliament House complex and said they would take their fight against the farm bills to the street. The suspended Rajya Sabha parliamentarians, who spent the night on the lawns near Mahatma Gandhi's statue in what several old-timers said was...

Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday said the opposition will boycott the proceedings of the House till the suspension of eight members is revoked. Speaking after the Zero Hour, Azad also demanded that the government brings a bill which should ensure private players don't procure food grains below the minimum support price (MSP) fixed by...

Rajya Sabha was on Monday adjourned for the day amid uproar by opposition members over suspension of eight MPs, including TMC leader Derek O'Brien and Sanjay Singh of AAP, for the remaining part of the Monsoon session over their "unruly behaviour" during the passage of farm bills. The proceedings of the House were almost washed out as it could not...

US President Donald Trump will not attend in-person the landmark 75th annual UN General Assembly session next week, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has said. The annual session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) commenced on September 15 amid the devastating coronavirus pandemic, with world leaders set to meet virtually for the first time as they...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday extended birthday greetings to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said the country's most popular leader is devoted to the service of the nation and welfare of the poor. Shah also said that under Modi's leadership, the poor and deprived sections of the society have been given a respectable life. "Birthday greetings...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday congratulated newly-elected Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. Taking to Twitter, PM Modi said, "Heartiest congratulations to Excellency Yoshihide Suga on the appointment as Prime Minister of Japan @kantei. I look forward to jointly taking our Special Strategic and Global Partnership to new heights. @sugawitter" Yoshihide Suga was formally elected Wednesday as Japan's new...

Democrat Joe Biden is assembling a team of top lawyers in anticipation of court challenges to the election process that could ultimately determine who wins the race for the White House. Biden's presidential campaign says the legal war room will work to ensure that elections are properly administered and votes correctly counted. It will also seek to combat voter...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who is abroad for his mother Sonia Gandhi's health check-up, this morning tweeted a sharp retort to the government's response in parliament on Monday about the data of migrants' deaths during coronavirus lockdown. On Monday, as the 18-day monsoon session of parliament began amid pandemic, over five months after the previous session, Union Labour Minister...