Kullu: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state executive held a meeting here to deliberate on various issues concerning the state and the Lok Sabha elections, with main focus on the Mandi Parliamentary seat. Mandi parliamentary seat, which remains vacant after Virbhadra Singh became the Chief Minister of the State, is [...]

Patna: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev today offered to help resolve the differences between Chief Ministers Nitish Kumar of Bihar and Narendra Modi of Gujarat. “I will try my best to resolve the differences between (them) if my service is sought,” Ramdev told the media during a two-day visit to Bihar [...]

Patna: The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is unlikely to return to power after the next Lok Sabha polls, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said Thursday. “Going by the mood among common people, Congress-led UPA will not return to power,” Nitish Kumar told media persons here. The UPA II failed to [...]

Singur (West Bengal), March 30 (IANS) It is widely believed that the Singur agitation, an intense anti-land acquisition movement, had propelled Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress to power in West Bengal nearly two years ago, evicting the three-decade-long Left Front regime. Now, with the Trinamool Congress government facing rough seas on [...]

Bangalore: Scarred by scandal after scandal, Karnataka’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is roping in Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to help it retain power even though he did not make much of an impact the last time he campaigned in the state. Flush with another victory in Gujarat and [...]

Dehra Dun : Congress national vice-president, Rahul Gandhi during his recent visit to Uttarkhand made it amply clear that he is not happy in the manner things were going on in this small mountain state and there was need for not only the partymen, but senior party functionaries and the [...]

Dehra Dun : In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress won all the five seats in Uttarakhand. The party will be praying with its heart and soul for a repeat in 2014, and the national vice president, none other than the crown prince himself, Rahul Gandhi is in the [...]

Shillong: Over 350 candidates filed their nomination papers for the Feb 23 elections to the Meghalaya assembly, an election official here said. The filing of the nominations to contest the polls to 60-member Meghalaya assembly ended Wednesday with no reports of poll-related incidents. “A total of 357 candidates have filed nomination [...]

New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra ModI, a top contender in the BJP for the post of prime minister, met the partys’s new president, Rajnath Singh, here Sunday and held “detailed discussions” on the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. Modi said he came to Delhi to meet and congratulate Rajnath Singh, [...]

Chandigarh: Till last month, Joginder Pal Jain was a Congress legislator in Punjab. He then quit the party and joined the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal. Now, the Congress is marshalling all its resources to defeat the “deserter” in the Feb 23 by-election to the Moga assembly seat. The by-election will see [...]