A lawyer suffered critical injuries while two leaders of opposition TDP had a narrow escape in an attack allegedly by the workers of ruling YSRCP in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur district on Wednesday.

The vehicles carrying Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders Bonda Umamaheswara Rao and Buddha Venkanna and Andhra Pradesh High Court advo

Union Home Minister Amit Shah expressed sorrow over the Delhi riots on Wednesday, while defending the Delhi Police's role in containing the violence.

Hitting out at the opposition in his reply to the debate on the Delhi violence in the Lok Sabha, he said: "I would like to place on record that after February 25, no inciden

The Congress has rejected the "young versus old" rift in the party and said it was a blend of youth and seniors.

Stating that the party has always nurtured young leaders according to their calibre and contribution, senior Congress leader Anand Sharma said, here on Wednesday, leaders like him were in the party since stude

The Congress and the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) will back noted journalist and anti-CAA activist Ajit Kumar Bhuyan as a candidate for the Rajya Sabha election from Assam, the two parties announced here on Wednesday.

Holding a joint media meet, Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) Chief Ripun Bora and AIUDF legisl

Delhi Cabinet minister Gopal Rai on Wednesday met the DCP, North East district over the law and order situation in the area, weeks after deadly communal violence in parts of the district.

After the meeting, Rai said the two discussed the arrests in the area after the anti-CAA violence.

"Anyone who was involved

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday termed the political turmoil in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh as murder of democracy.

In a series of tweets, he said, "What has happened in #MadhyaPradesh, it is murder of democracy. Entire nation is watching, how shamelessly #HorseTrading is being done. In which direction they

The Congress on Wednesday hit out at the government in the Lok Sabha over its "delayed response" to the Delhi riots, claiming that the violence had not happened if timely action had been taken.

Dubbing the Central government a "nikammi sarkar (incompetent government)", Congress leader in the house, Adhir Ranjan

Former Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia, who joined the BJP earlier in the day, was nominated by the party for the Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh in a list of 11 candidates released on Wednesday evening.

Apart from 11 candidates it is fielding, the BJP has alloted two seats to its allies.

From Jharkhand, the BJ

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday appointed Bandi Sanjay Kumar as its new president of the Telangana unit.

Party's national president J.P. Nadda appointed Kumar as the state party chief. A member of Lok Sabha from Karimnagar, Kumar succeeds K. Laxman.

Sanjay Kumar, who is one of the four BJP MPs from Telan

A sumptuous breakfast with the Chief Minister before flying to Jaipur on Wednesday might not have lifted the spirits of the Madhya Pradesh Congress MLAs, as did the poise with which Kamal Nath defied the situation and pepped them up.

Nath had told the MLAs at the CLP meeting on Tuesday night that the game is far from over as their