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  Nepal PM Prachanda arrives in India on four-day visit

  September 15, 2016 18:59 IST

  Nepal Prime Minister Prachanda today arrived in India on a four-day state visit with a jumbo delegation on his maiden foreign visit.

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  Union Cabinet may take up Budget overhaul next week

  September 15, 2016 18:46 IST

  The Union Cabinet may next week take up the proposal for merging Railway Budget with the General Budget.

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  Chikungunya cannot cause death, reiterates Satyendar Jain; Google is his source for info

  September 15, 2016 18:32 IST

  Delhi's Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Thursday reiterated that chikungunya cannot cause death and cited Google as the source of this information.

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  Controversy over Shahabuddin's release needless, court granted him bail: Lalu Yadav

  September 15, 2016 18:24 IST

  Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav today said that there should be no controversy over the release of former RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin from jail because he was granted bail by the court.

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  Abandon ‘fatherly instincts’, retire from politics: Mayawati’s advice to Mulayam Singh Yadav on power struggle

  September 15, 2016 17:20 IST

  Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati today advised Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav to leave 'putra moh' (love for his son and CM Akhilesh Yadav) and retire from active politics.

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  Smriti Irani fake degree row: Delhi court adjourns case till October 1

  September 15, 2016 17:17 IST

  The Patiala House Court today adjourned Union Textile Minister Smriti Irani’s fake degree case till October 1, the day on which it will pronounce its order on whether to summon her in this case or not.

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  Blow to Mehbooba Mufti as PDP MP Tariq Hamid Karra resigns from party, Lok Sabha

  September 15, 2016 17:01 IST

  senior PDP leader and Lok Sabha member Tariq Hamid Karra on Thursday resigned both from the party and the Parliament.

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  Samajwadi Party not in trouble, allocating portfolios CM’s prerogative: Shivpal Yadav

  September 15, 2016 16:43 IST

  Shivpal Singh Yadav on Thursday asserted that the party is not in any kind of trouble and said that he will not challenge UP CM Akhilesh Yadav’s decision to strip him of all key portfolios.

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  Shivpal to remain in party, not in government: Mulayan Singh Yadav

  September 15, 2016 14:58 IST

  Speaking out for the first time since controversy broke in Uttar Pradesh’s first family, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav today told India TV that Shivpal Yadav, who was stripped of key portfolios by CM Akhilesh Yadav late on Tuesday eveni

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  UP: An inside account on the 'outsider' theory, the man behind rift in the Yadav clan

  September 15, 2016 14:55 IST

  Even as the ongoing tussle between Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his uncle and minister Shivpal Yadav have sent flutters down the power corridors, there is more to the issue than what meets

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  PM Modi all set to create a new ‘world record’ on his 66th birthday

  September 15, 2016 12:33 IST

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi will celebrate his 66th birthday with differently-abled persons at Navsari in Gujarat on September 17.

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  Two Indian teachers held captive in Libya rescued, confirms Sushma Swaraj

  September 15, 2016 12:29 IST

  Two Indian teachers who were abducted in Libya’s Sirte, an area controlled by the Islamic State, over a year ago have been released, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Thursday.

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  Arvind Kejriwal to be ‘silent’ for a while after surgery for ‘enlarged’ tongue

  September 15, 2016 11:41 IST

  The irrepressible Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will not be able to speak for a while after he underwent a successful surgery for chronic cough in a Bengaluru hospital on Tuesday.

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  Party leadership made a mistake by removing Akhilesh as UP SP chief: Ram Gopal Yadav

  September 15, 2016 14:02 IST

  Senior Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav’s cousin Ram Gopal Yadav today said that party leadership made a mistake by removing CM Akhilesh Yadav as party’s state unit chief without consulting with him.

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  Akhilesh vs Shivpal: Mulayam calls SP parliamentary board meeting to end crisis

  September 15, 2016 10:00 IST

  With ongoing tussle between Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his uncle Shivpal Yadav coming to the fore, the Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav has called a meeting of the party's parliamentary board

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  After Shahabuddin, wanted sharpshooter now spotted with Lalu Yadav’s son Tej Pratap

  September 15, 2016 8:12 IST

  a picture went viral on Wednesday in which he can be seen with RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s elder son Tej Pratap.

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  Triple talaq: GoM discusses govt’s stand to be taken in Supreme Court

  September 15, 2016 0:05 IST

  A group of Union ministers today deliberated on the government’s stand to be taken in the Supreme Court on the issue of Muslim practices of polygamy, triple talaq and nikah halala.

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  ‘Khaat chhodke jaao’: Crowds head home with cots at Rahul's 'Khaat Sabha' in Mirzapur

  September 14, 2016 19:19 IST

  Apprehensive of the gathering turning Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Khaat Sabha’ in Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur turning into a repeat of Deoria and Ambedkar Nagar, party leaders could be heard making announcements soon after his speech appeali

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  Was Amar Singh the ‘outsider’ that Akhilesh Yadav was referring to?

  September 14, 2016 18:21 IST

  Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav sought to blame outsiders for the rift in the Samajwadi Party and many suspect he was referring to Amar Singh.

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  Modi meets Ghani: Three agreements, Rs 7,600 cr pledge for Afghanistan and a warning for ‘state-sponsored terrorism’

  September 14, 2016 17:29 IST

  During the meeting between Ashraf Ghani and Narendra Modi, India on Wednesday pledged nearly Rs 7689 crore for Afghanistan development.

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  1984 Anti-Sikh riots: CBI files report on Congress leader Jagdish Tytler’s involvement

  September 14, 2016 17:28 IST

  The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today filed its investigation report on Congress leader Jagdish Tytler’s involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

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  All in the family: Know members of Mulayam Singh Yadav’s family in UP politics

  September 14, 2016 17:19 IST

  Mulayam Singh Yadav’s family has been dogged by serious differences but matters reached a flash point on Tuesday after Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav shunted out Chief Secretary Deepak Singhal, considered as his uncle Shivpal Yadav's favourite.

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  Mamata Banerjee hands over ‘land parchas’ to 800 Singur farmers

  September 14, 2016 16:03 IST

  Following the Supreme Court's order cancelling the Singur land acquisition, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will today compensated 800 farmers and also distributed 9,117 land records.

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  Navjot Singh Sidhu resigned from BJP to counter ongoing propaganda against him: Navjot Kaur

  September 14, 2016 15:13 IST

  Navjot Kaur, the wife of former Rajya Sabha MP Navjot Singh Sidhu, has clarified that his husband resigned from the the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to counter the propaganda launched against him by some vested interests.

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  Amit Shah's ‘Vaman’ tweet kicks up row in Kerala, CM Pinarayi Vijayan demands apology

  September 14, 2016 14:53 IST

  Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah has sparked a fresh controvesry after he greeted the people of Kerala for 'Vamana Jayanthi' instead of Onam. Shah raked up a storm after publishing a poster wishing Vaman

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  Don’t panic over increasing cases of chikungunya and dengue: Union Health Minister tells Delhiites

  September 14, 2016 14:35 IST

  Union Health Minister JP Nadda today urged the people of Delhi not to panic over surging cases of chikungunya and dengue and focus on stopping the breeding of mosquitoes.

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  ‘Problems in government, not in family’: Akhilesh Yadav

  September 14, 2016 17:20 IST

  The all-out war between Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav has now come out in public.

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  RJD leader Raghuvansh Prasad snubs party chief’s warning, says Lalu ‘speaks out of decorum’

  September 14, 2016 13:47 IST

  RJD vice-president Raghuvansh Prasad Singh on Tuesday snubbed Lalu Prasad Yadav’s declaration that ‘Nitish Kumar is still the leader of Mahagathbandhan govt’ and said that in a ‘democracy everybody has right to express his/her view’.