Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday congratulated Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader Hemant Soren, whose party in alliance with the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal is set to form the new government in Jharkhand.

The Prime Minister wrote on @narendramodi: "Congratulations to @HemantSorenJMM ji and the JMM-led allianc

Incumbent Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das, facing imminent defeat in Jamshedpur East, has resigned from his post.

He handed over his resignation to Governor Draupadi Murmu at Raj Bhavan on Monday evening.

Das, a non-tribal leader of a tribal-dominated state, is staring at a shocking defeat at the hands of his

Blasting Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son and party MP Rahul Gandhi for their "limited and narrow" knowledge, the Bharatiya Janata Part (BJP) on Monday advised them to know the land and its history if they wanted to dabble in politics.

BJP National Working President J.P. Nadda during a meeting in support of th

In a huge embarrassment to the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), a self-confessed BJP sympathiser -- who posted an objectionable post on Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray -- was thrashed and his head forcibly tonsured allegedly by some Shiv Sainiks, officials said here on Monday.

The victim, Hiramani Tiwari, 30, who uses the social me

Union Minister of Finance & Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman here on Monday had pre-budget consultations with representatives from the water and sanitation sectors.

They discussed challenges faced in providing quality water, sanitation, solid waste management and drainage. They also talked about removing disparities in acc

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor's tweet about not knowing the identity of National Award-winner lyricist and comedian Varun Grover has gone viral on Twitter.

Tharoor posted a clipping of Grover reciting a poetry condemning the Citizenship Amendment Act on @ShashiTharoor and wrote: "I don't know who this brilliant poet

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Monday assured Muslims that National Register of Citizens (NRC) would not be implemented in the state.

He gave the assurance at a gathering of Muslims in his native Kadapa district.

"We are opposed to NRC. I assure the minorities that we will not implement

As many as 13 activists of the Kerala Students Union (KSU) - the student organisation of the Congress -- were taken into custody here on Monday night when they arrived with black flags to protest against Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, who is in the city to pray at Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple.

They were agitating again

Amid widespread protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that "the whole nation recognised the Prime Minister by his clothes as he wears Rs 2 crore suit", in an apparent reference to Modi who had said that

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has on Monday called for opposition unity by uniting all like-minded parties on a platform to protest against the 'draconian' BJP-led National Democratic Allaince (NDA) regime.

In a letter to non-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Chief Ministers and senior leaders, Banerjee said, "