Politics

Colombo: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has agreed to replace his older brother Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister in a bid to resolve the political impasse caused by the worst...

Bhubaneswar: President of Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) Niranjan Patnaik has issued a notice to veteran party leader Suresh Routray for his comment on selection of OPCC president. In a...

Mumbai: Uddhav Thackeray issued a stern warning for those trying to do ‘dadagiri’. The Maharashtra chief minister, speaking for the first time on the Hanuman Chalisa controversy, said reciting it...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha BJP will stick to 'Mission 120', set by then national president of the party Amit Shah in the last Assembly elections, for coming polls also, but would change...

Mumbai: Navneet Rana and Ravi Rana were on Sunday sent to 14-day judicial custody over the Hanuman Chalisa row. The MP-MLA couple from Maharashtra’s Amravati district was arrested on Saturday...

Mumbai: Ravi Rana, an Independent MLA, and his wife Navneet Rana, an Independent MP, were on Saturday evening arrested by Mumbai police over the Hanuman Chalisa controversy. Khar police have...

Bhubaneswar: Amid calls for a change of guard in the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC), several party MLAs have now raised a demand for a new Congress Legislature Party (CLP)...

Washington: India had taken strong exception to US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s visit to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), describing it as ‘narrow-minded’ politics. The Joe Biden administration made it clear that Omar’s...

New Delhi: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was so overwhelmed by the reception he received in India, he felt like cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan. Johnson...

New Delhi: India on Thursday strongly disapproved of US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s visit to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and said it reflected “narrow-minded politics”. “We have noted that she has visited...