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An alleged rape attempt on a minor in UP's Kannauj has prompted an attack on the Samajwadi Party by the BJP, which has claimed that the accused was once a representative of the opposition party's MP and Akhilesh Yadav's wife, Dimple Yadav.

Locals from all backgrounds have held a protest on the streets of Madhya Pradesh's Damoh district, alleging interference by the area's BJP MP and Union minister Prahlad Singh Patel in the investigation of a Dalit man's suicide.

From the BJP's treasurer to its go-to man who has held coal, power, railways and finance portfolios, 54-year-old Piyush Goyal's rise has been phenomenal.

The third and largest phase of the national election witnessed a drop in poll percentage, with only 66 per people turning out to vote. Polling across 117 seats in 13 states and two Union Territories was marred by complaints of glitches in Electronic Voting Machines and violence in several states, in which a man died. The whole of Gujarat and Kerala...

A huge right-wing rally to demand the fast-tracking of the Ram temple at Ayodhya is being held at Delhi's Ramlila grounds. The attending groups, which include the BJP's ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, want the government to pass an ordinance to bypass the legal process. The winter session of parliament -- the last full-fledged ...

After sweeping Himachal Pradesh, the BJP now finds itself looking for a man for the top job. Prem Kumar Dhumal, who was the rare Chief Ministerial face projected by the BJP, was defeated, which means even before celebrating, the party has to search for a new general in the hill state. Top leaders held a meeting till late last night.

A mysterious death is at the centre of an escalating political row in Karnataka, where elections will be held next year. The BJP will take out a protest march today in Bengaluru after the police said a man found dead two days after communal tension in Honnavar town was not tortured as claimed in social media posts.

Amit Shah is the man of the match of the BJP's victories, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told lakhs of cheering BJP workers today at a mega show of strength in Gandhinagar, the capital of his home state Gujarat, where assembly elections will be held soon. The Prime Minister also made a scathing attack on the Congress and the Nehru Gandhi family, alle...

Self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, held guilty of raping two women followers by a court in Haryana's Panchkula today, found strong support in BJP lawmaker Sakshi Maharaj, who said the chief of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect is being "harassed." 30 people have died and 250 are injured in violence that erupted after the court's verdict, in Panchk...

Shiv Sena 84, BJP 82. In the nail-biting finish that a T20 cricket match delivers, the BJP is now just two seats behind the Shiv Sena in Mumbai's Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation or BMC, dominated by the latter for 20 years. The BJP is also set to win eight out of the nine other major Maharashtra municipalities where elections were held this week...

A BJP leader who contested the Goa assembly polls held on February 4 has been named in a murder case in 2006. Vishwajit Krishnarao Rane's name emerged in a video in which his former driver claims to have witnessed the BJP leader shooting dead a man. The driver was detained by police after the video went viral on social media.

Manish Sharma, a politician in Bengal who was expelled from the BJP earlier this year, was arrested with six others in Kolkata with bundles of cash amounting to Rs 33 lakh. Police say most of the cash was in brand new 2,000 rupee notes.

There's an election story from Kerala that you shouldn't miss in the flurry of headlines about Bihar dominating your newsfeed right now. Elections to civic polls were held in Kerala last week and one man's Facebook post about why he didn't vote BJP is now going viral. Here's why - the BJP candidate he was not voting for was his mother.

Arvind Kejriwal, the man who last governed Delhi, says he believes he can earn a second chance from the capital in the next election, which is likely to be held early next year.

Gopinath Munde, union rural development minister, who died this morning of a heart attack after a road accident in Delhi, was one of the BJP's top leaders in Maharashtra, and was considered to be the BJP's chief ministerial candidate for the assembly elections to be held in the state by October this year.

An alleged rape attempt on a minor in UP's Kannauj has prompted an attack on the Samajwadi Party by the BJP, which has claimed that the accused was once a representative of the opposition party's MP and Akhilesh Yadav's wife, Dimple Yadav.

Locals from all backgrounds have held a protest on the streets of Madhya Pradesh's Damoh district, alleging interference by the area's BJP MP and Union minister Prahlad Singh Patel in the investigation of a Dalit man's suicide.

From the BJP's treasurer to its go-to man who has held coal, power, railways and finance portfolios, 54-year-old Piyush Goyal's rise has been phenomenal.

The third and largest phase of the national election witnessed a drop in poll percentage, with only 66 per people turning out to vote. Polling across 117 seats in 13 states and two Union Territories was marred by complaints of glitches in Electronic Voting Machines and violence in several states, in which a man died. The whole of Gujarat and Kerala...

A huge right-wing rally to demand the fast-tracking of the Ram temple at Ayodhya is being held at Delhi's Ramlila grounds. The attending groups, which include the BJP's ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, want the government to pass an ordinance to bypass the legal process. The winter session of parliament -- the last full-fledged ...

After sweeping Himachal Pradesh, the BJP now finds itself looking for a man for the top job. Prem Kumar Dhumal, who was the rare Chief Ministerial face projected by the BJP, was defeated, which means even before celebrating, the party has to search for a new general in the hill state. Top leaders held a meeting till late last night.

A mysterious death is at the centre of an escalating political row in Karnataka, where elections will be held next year. The BJP will take out a protest march today in Bengaluru after the police said a man found dead two days after communal tension in Honnavar town was not tortured as claimed in social media posts.

Amit Shah is the man of the match of the BJP's victories, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told lakhs of cheering BJP workers today at a mega show of strength in Gandhinagar, the capital of his home state Gujarat, where assembly elections will be held soon. The Prime Minister also made a scathing attack on the Congress and the Nehru Gandhi family, alle...

Self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, held guilty of raping two women followers by a court in Haryana's Panchkula today, found strong support in BJP lawmaker Sakshi Maharaj, who said the chief of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect is being "harassed." 30 people have died and 250 are injured in violence that erupted after the court's verdict, in Panchk...

Shiv Sena 84, BJP 82. In the nail-biting finish that a T20 cricket match delivers, the BJP is now just two seats behind the Shiv Sena in Mumbai's Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation or BMC, dominated by the latter for 20 years. The BJP is also set to win eight out of the nine other major Maharashtra municipalities where elections were held this week...

A BJP leader who contested the Goa assembly polls held on February 4 has been named in a murder case in 2006. Vishwajit Krishnarao Rane's name emerged in a video in which his former driver claims to have witnessed the BJP leader shooting dead a man. The driver was detained by police after the video went viral on social media.

Manish Sharma, a politician in Bengal who was expelled from the BJP earlier this year, was arrested with six others in Kolkata with bundles of cash amounting to Rs 33 lakh. Police say most of the cash was in brand new 2,000 rupee notes.

There's an election story from Kerala that you shouldn't miss in the flurry of headlines about Bihar dominating your newsfeed right now. Elections to civic polls were held in Kerala last week and one man's Facebook post about why he didn't vote BJP is now going viral. Here's why - the BJP candidate he was not voting for was his mother.

Arvind Kejriwal, the man who last governed Delhi, says he believes he can earn a second chance from the capital in the next election, which is likely to be held early next year.

Gopinath Munde, union rural development minister, who died this morning of a heart attack after a road accident in Delhi, was one of the BJP's top leaders in Maharashtra, and was considered to be the BJP's chief ministerial candidate for the assembly elections to be held in the state by October this year.