Monsoon And Polls

The ambitious and controversial plan to restructure the civic administration of Karnataka capital Bengaluru is likely to be tabled in the state assembly in the monsoon session.

The Monsoon Session, perhaps the last sitting to be held at the old parliament building, has witnessed the transformation of India's apex legislature from being a forum of discussion, debate and decisions to a poll campaign arena.

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh shared a 2012 letter by LK Advani to then PM Manmohan Singh amid controversy over a proposed bill by the centre that will exclude the Chief Justice of India from the process to appoint the country's top election officers

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee convened a meeting with party MPs on July 21 to discuss the party's strategy for the upcoming Parliament session and the vice presidential election.

Some economists expect price pressures for food to be moderate over the coming months based on expectations for the monsoon to be timely and normal.

An extended monsoon has delayed harvests and interrupted the supplies of vegetables like onions, a key ingredient in Indian kitchens.

Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana, announced today by the Election Commission for October 21, will be the first in the country since Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the BJP to success in Lok Sabha polls in May. Nearly 11 crore people will vote across the two states in an election that is also the first since PM Modi's government pushed...

Mandya in South Karnataka is fertile and green. In years of good monsoon, this land of sugarcane and paddy is irrigated by the Krishnarajasagara Dam. It is also the heartland of the Vokkaligas, a dominant caste from which Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy of the Janata Dal (Secular) hails.

DMK chief MK Stalin on Sunday hit out at the Election Commission for not announcing by-elections to two Tamil Nadu assembly constituencies citing monsoon as the reason and said it was not a 'justifiable' decision.

No-confidence motion: The era of India's coalition politics is back. With Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 2014 wave of popularity receding, polls show the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party may fall short of a full majority in next year's federal election, prompting the opposition parties to put aside their ideological differences and unite.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's four-year-old government faces its first no confidence vote tomorrow, at a time all parties are prepping for state polls and the 2019 national elections, and the ruling BJP is leaving nothing to chance despite numbers.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government faces a no-confidence vote on Friday as the opposition uses the new monsoon session of India's parliament to challenge his administration ahead of general elections early next year.

Although inflation has stayed above the RBI's target of 4 per cent for seven months running, upcoming seasonal monsoon rains and the rupee, which has weakened over 6 per cent this year, could determine its path ahead.

The other factors that are likely to aid consumption-led recovery include household savings of 0.4 per cent of GDP, on account of lower oil prices and an increase in wheat prices to implement the Swaminathan formula before the UP polls in the summer of 2017.

Higher food and fuel prices pushed Indian inflation up in May, according to a Reuters poll of economists who said good monsoon rains would temper it in the coming months and give the central bank room to ease further.

The ambitious and controversial plan to restructure the civic administration of Karnataka capital Bengaluru is likely to be tabled in the state assembly in the monsoon session.

The Monsoon Session, perhaps the last sitting to be held at the old parliament building, has witnessed the transformation of India's apex legislature from being a forum of discussion, debate and decisions to a poll campaign arena.

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh shared a 2012 letter by LK Advani to then PM Manmohan Singh amid controversy over a proposed bill by the centre that will exclude the Chief Justice of India from the process to appoint the country's top election officers

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee convened a meeting with party MPs on July 21 to discuss the party's strategy for the upcoming Parliament session and the vice presidential election.

Some economists expect price pressures for food to be moderate over the coming months based on expectations for the monsoon to be timely and normal.

An extended monsoon has delayed harvests and interrupted the supplies of vegetables like onions, a key ingredient in Indian kitchens.

Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana, announced today by the Election Commission for October 21, will be the first in the country since Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the BJP to success in Lok Sabha polls in May. Nearly 11 crore people will vote across the two states in an election that is also the first since PM Modi's government pushed...

Mandya in South Karnataka is fertile and green. In years of good monsoon, this land of sugarcane and paddy is irrigated by the Krishnarajasagara Dam. It is also the heartland of the Vokkaligas, a dominant caste from which Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy of the Janata Dal (Secular) hails.

DMK chief MK Stalin on Sunday hit out at the Election Commission for not announcing by-elections to two Tamil Nadu assembly constituencies citing monsoon as the reason and said it was not a 'justifiable' decision.

No-confidence motion: The era of India's coalition politics is back. With Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 2014 wave of popularity receding, polls show the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party may fall short of a full majority in next year's federal election, prompting the opposition parties to put aside their ideological differences and unite.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's four-year-old government faces its first no confidence vote tomorrow, at a time all parties are prepping for state polls and the 2019 national elections, and the ruling BJP is leaving nothing to chance despite numbers.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government faces a no-confidence vote on Friday as the opposition uses the new monsoon session of India's parliament to challenge his administration ahead of general elections early next year.

Although inflation has stayed above the RBI's target of 4 per cent for seven months running, upcoming seasonal monsoon rains and the rupee, which has weakened over 6 per cent this year, could determine its path ahead.

The other factors that are likely to aid consumption-led recovery include household savings of 0.4 per cent of GDP, on account of lower oil prices and an increase in wheat prices to implement the Swaminathan formula before the UP polls in the summer of 2017.

Higher food and fuel prices pushed Indian inflation up in May, according to a Reuters poll of economists who said good monsoon rains would temper it in the coming months and give the central bank room to ease further.