After appropriating the legacy of Vallabhbhai Patel, the BJP may well be on its way to take over the legacy of another tall Gujarati leader -- Morarji Desai.


On March 4, BJP MP Subramanian Swamy wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking him to rename the Surat airport after Desai, a known anti-Congress figure and a son

With the Yogi Adityanath government set to complete three years in power in Uttar Pradesh on March 18, the BJP has asked its MPs and MLAs to reach out to the state's people and list out its achievements.

During the campaign, each BJP MP and MLA will visit five villages and inform the people about the achievements of the Yogi g

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday said he parted ways with the BJP, and not Hindutva even as he announced a donation of Rs 1 crore for the construction of Ram temple in Uttar Pradesh.

"BJP does not mean Hindutva... Hindutva is one thing, BJP is another," Thackeray told reporters here.

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao on Saturday revealed in the state Assembly that he too has no birth certificate.

"When I myself don't have a birth certificate, how can I produce the certificate of my father," asked Rao, apparently referring to the new format of the National Population Register (NPR), w

Senior Congress leader and former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Saturday hit back at the Modi government over the Yes Bank crisis, saying India's fifth largest private sector bank fiasco is only part of the mismanagement of financial institutions under the watch of the BJP government.

Addressing a press conference at the

Fearing another attempt to shift the prestigious air show from this aerospace hub, Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa shot off a letter to Defence Minister Rajnath Singh for his consent to hold the biennial Aero India in Bengaluru in February 2021, an official said on Saturday.

"Yediyurappa personally gave the letter t

With less than 20 days to go for Rajya Sabha biennial elections this year, the Congress is all set to attempt to strike a balance between experience and youth to select candidates for 55 seats in 17 states, party leaders said on Saturday.


The elections to the 55 vacant seats will take place on March 26.

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The shopkeepers of Delhi's Shaheen Bagh area on Saturday met DCP (south-east district) R.P. Meena, urging him to take necessary steps so that they could re-open their shops whose shutters have not been downed since the protests around the CAA and the NRC began over two months ago.

The representatives of Kalindi Kunj Market Wel

Aam Aadmi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan on Saturday said that today, being a Muslim is the biggest crime in India and suspended AAP Councillor Tahir Hussain is being punished for being a Muslim only.

Hussain is on a seven-day police remand in connection with the northeast Delhi violence which erupted after clashes between pro- and an

While Delhi Police bore the brunt of being "mute spectators" during the riots in northeastern parts of the capital recently, it has sprung back to action and detailed a chronology that led to the Delhi violence. The police have detailed how BJP leader Kapil Mishra sent text messages to his followers and Bhim Army Chief Chandrashekhar A