Namkhana (West Bengal),   In a bid to woo women-voters in poll-bound West Bengal, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday announced 33 per cent reservation for women in government jobs if the party is voted to power.

Shah made the announcement while addressing a huge crowd of supporters in Namkhana vil

Kolkata,  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has pointed out towards a "conspiracy" behind the bomb attack in West Bengal's Murshidabad district that left her Labour Minister Jakir Hossain seriously injured.

Without taking names of any particular party or individual, Banerjee levell

New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Thursday sought a response from the government and the Election Commission on a plea seeking introduction of e-voting, decentralising the voting system, and enhancing the system of postal voting to other categories.

A bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde and com

Lucknow,  The Samajwadi legislators created a ruckus in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly as Governor Anandiben Patel began her address to the joint session of both Houses on Thursday.

SP MLAs shouted slogans against increasing fuel prices, farmers' issues and deteriorating law and order situation.
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Mumbai,  Thousands of farmers staged rail-blockade (rail-roko) agitation in different parts of Maharashtra although train services remained largely unaffected, as part of the four-hour all-India protest, officials said here on Thursday.

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) and other farmers' organisations

Amaravati, Following the third phase of panchayat elections in Andhra Pradesh, political parties have resumed their own calculations on the number of sarpanch posts they won. The Telugu Desam Party claimed that it bagged 1,069 sarpanch posts while the ruling Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) claimed that it brea

Amaravati, Tammineni Vanisri, wife of Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker Tammineni Sitaram won a Sarpanch post in the third phase Panchayat elections.

Vanisri won the Sarpanch post of the Togaram village in Amadalavalasa Mandal in Srikakulam district.

Out of 1,460 votes, 1,123 were cast in the election

New Delhi,  Congress MP and former Union Minister Manish Tewari on Thursday praised Rahul Gandhi on his statement about his father's killers.

Tewari was NSUI President at the time of the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in Coimbatore in 1991.

Manish Tewari tweeted: "As someone who lo

New Delhi,  The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed plying of private company buses in the core of area of Corbett Tiger Reserve and also issued notice to the Uttarakhand government.

A bench headed by Chief Justice S.A Bobde and comprising Justices A.S Bopanna and V.Ramasubramanian said this is an important

New Delhi, Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday appointed new chiefs for the NSUI in Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur and its unit in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi.

The National Students Union of India (NSUI) is the student wing of the Congress.

Sunny Parihar takes over