We can prove majority in 10 minutes flat: Sanjay Raut

Mumbai (IANS) Calling up Maharashtra Governor B.S. Koshyari to ask the newly-elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to prove his majority within 24 hours, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday said the Sena-NCP-Congress…

SC asks Centre to produce letters of support

New Delhi (IANS) In an unprecedented hearing on Sunday on the brewing political drama in Maharashtra, the Supreme Court has asked the Solicitor General to produce letters of support, used by Devender Fadnavis in staking claim to form the government,…

Sena, NCP, Congress hold 'cross-meetings' of MLAs

Mumbai (IANS) In an unprecedented confidence building measure, the Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress are conducting 'cross-meetings' with the legislators of their parties in the proposed 'Maha Vikas Aghadi' here…

Jharkhand Cong manifesto promises jobs, loan waiver, Metro

Ranchi (IANS) The Jharkhand Congress on Sunday released its manifesto for the Assembly polls and tried to lure voters by making scores of promises including jobs for each family, loan waivers for farmers and a Metro rail in Ranchi.

Jharkhand…

Hemant to contest from 2 seats in Jharkhand assembly polls

Ranchi (IANS) Former Chief Minister and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) Executive president Hemant Soren will fight the state assembly polls from two assembly seats.

Hemant Soren is Chief Ministerial candidate of the JMM, the Congress and the…

BJP fields Narayan Rane to secure majority for Fadnavis

New Delhi (IANS) Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Narayan Rane is prominent among the BJP leaders commissioned to secure a majority for the Devendra Fadnavis government in the state -- for the prime reason that he has spent a long period in both…

Grand Ram temple will be constructed at Ayodhya: Rajnath

Ranchi (IANS) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that a grand Ram temple would be constructed at Ayodhya.

Addressing a rally at Palamau ahead of the November-December Jharkhand Assembly elections, the senior BJP leader said: "BJP…

JMM and Congress have looted state says Raghubar, Hemant even sold sand of state

Garhwa: Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das said Congress and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha looted the state and even Hemant Soren went on to sell the sand of the state.

Addressing an election meeting in Ranka he said that due the domicile policy…

Cong's J&K doublespeak? Anti-mobile in 2003, for net in 2019

New Delhi (IANS) In a major embarassment for the Congress, which has been demanding internet connections be restored in Jammu and Kashmir, its leader in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury's 2003 parliamentary question where he had drawn a connection…

Rs 809 cr allocated to repair 4,861 railway bridges: Goyal

New Delhi (IANS) Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday informed the Rajya Sabha that railways has sanctioned 4,168 bridges for repair and strengthening this year at an estimated cost of Rs 809 crore.

In a written reply to a question…