Bharatiya Janata Party's Aparna Sengupta took a lead in the Left bastion Nirsa in Jharkhand assembly by 15,429 votes over Marxist Coordination Committee's Arup Chatterjee.

Chatterjee, a senior party leader, had won the 2014 assembly election from Nirsa, known as the coal belt of India, by only 1,035 votes. The Nirsa assemb

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, who arrived in the national capital to participate in the Congress' 'Satyagrah' over the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens on Monday, said that earlier the people of Maharashtra and Haryana and now Jharkhand have rejected the misleading politics of Prime Minister Na

Opposition alliance chief ministerial candidate and JMM Executive President Hemant Soren on Monday met his parents in Ranchi and took their blessings.

Hemant, wearing jeans and a coat, took a clycle ride to reach his father's residence.

The JMM-Congress-RJD alliance is leading in 46 seats. The state has 81-membe

A large number of students and staff of Jadavpur University on Monday staged a black flag demonstration, blocking West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar's car and raised "Go back" slogans against him when he arrived at the campus to attend an official meeting.

Carrying posters branding Dhankhar as "Padmapal"

For the first time in Maharashtra's history, a Chief Minister has been targeted not only by the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), but also the high-profile wife of the Leader of Opposition, sending out political ripples in the state.

Early on Monday, political circles were taken aback when professional banker Amruta Fad

It was a decade spent by cricket fans celebrating the enigma named Virat Kohli as the extraordinary Indian captain shattered all records and finished at the pinnacle of virtually every possible milestone in 50-over cricket.

Kohli left his mark in every format be it Tests, ODIs or T20s over the past decade which has seen him outgro

Slamming Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan for his pro-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) stand, senior Congress leader M.M. Hassan on Monday said Khan is behaving like the state BJP President.

"Today the Kerala unit of the BJP has no president and from what the Governor has been speaking on CAA, it seems he is doubling up as

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-Congress-RJD alliance seems to have got good support of the tribal voters in the state as the poll results suggest that the BJP's experiment with a non-tribal chief minister has fallen flat.

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha has influence over 26 per cent of tribal votes and minorities of the state.

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Monday said the Mahagathbandhan (RJD-Congress-JMM) would certainly get a clear majority in the Jharkhand Assembly elections.

He said the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader Hemant Soren will become the Chief Minister.

The latest trends show that RJD is leading in f

As India batsman Rohit Sharma achieved yet another batting milestone by breaking Sri Lanka great Sanath Jayasuriya's 22-year-old record for most runs in a calendar year by an opener across formats, Twitter fans hailed the batting ace.

Rohit's ninth run in India's innings during the third ODI against the West Indies at