Saurabh Gupta Sunil Prabhu

Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court had asked the West Bengal school jobs "scam" case to be reassigned after examining a report on Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay's interview to a news channel.

The Supreme Court issued notices to Maharashtra Deputy Speaker Narhari Zirwal, Chief Whip Sunil Prabhu, leader of Legislature party Anil Chaudhary and the Centre today as the tussle for the control of Shiv Sena reached the top court.

Mamata Banerjee's caustic "what UPA?" comment directed at the Congress after a meeting with Maharashtra leader Sharad Pawar on Wednesday came in a blast of criticism that did not spare Rahul Gandhi.

The central government has promised that there will not be a nationwide exercise to make people prove their citizenship through a National Register of Citizens or NRC and so there is no need to be concerned about the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said on Friday following a meeting with Prime Minister N...

Uddhav Thackeray should be chief minister of a Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-Congress alliance government in Maharashtra, leaders insisted at a meeting in Mumbai of the three parties on Friday. Sources say the Sena chief is under pressure from the NCP and the Congress to take the top post, but he has suggested other names. At a midnight meet...

The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) said on Wednesday that they would soon provide a "stable" government in Maharashtra but indicated that the terms of engagement with the Shiv Sena have to be worked out.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Sharad Pawar, after a 45-minute meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi at her home in Delhi on Monday, said they discussed the Maharashtra political situation but not government formation with the Shiv Sena.

Maharashtra was placed under President's Rule on Tuesday after a report from Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari to the centre that none of the three parties he had invited since Saturday - BJP, Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) - could produce enough numbers to stake claim to power even 20 days after the October 24 state election results. ...

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray met with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Sharad Pawar at an undisclosed location in Mumbai today to discuss getting together to form government in Maharashtra. The meeting took place after the Sena's only minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, Arvind Sawant, resigned, signalling the party's s...

Mamata Banerjee, sitting on an indefinite protest in Kolkata over a CBI investigation into Ponzi scams allegedly involving several members of her party, was accused by the central government of blocking a Supreme Court-ordered inquiry because she was "trying to hide something". CBI officers were detained last evening as they went to Kolkata police ...

Hours after BJP president Amit Shah told his party workers in Maharashtra to prep for a solo fight in the 2019 general election, ally Shiv Sena struck another combative note. "I'm fighting for the common man's dream, not for (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi's dream," Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray said in an interview published in his party mouthpiece S...

Mo-trust motion: In a huge embarrassment to the ruling BJP, ally Shiv Sena decided to stay away from the no-confidence vote in parliament. On Thursday, BJP chief Amit Shah had phoned Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray requesting his support. "Shiv Sena is the party which always follows directive of party chief. We have decided to take a principled stand a...

The BJP and Mamata Banerjee's party, the Trinamool Congress, are on a rapidly-escalating collision course that has, in the last 24 hours, included vandalism and an alleged bomb attack in Kolkata. The BJP office in Hooghly, 60 km from Calcutta was set on fire this evening. The violence is the result of the arrests of two parliamentarians, Tapas Pal ...

Women corporators of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) came to blows during the general body proceedings at the BMC headquaretrs in south Mumbai. The incident took place during a special session to dicuss building collapses in the city which have killed over 15 people this monsoon.

Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court had asked the West Bengal school jobs "scam" case to be reassigned after examining a report on Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay's interview to a news channel.

The Supreme Court issued notices to Maharashtra Deputy Speaker Narhari Zirwal, Chief Whip Sunil Prabhu, leader of Legislature party Anil Chaudhary and the Centre today as the tussle for the control of Shiv Sena reached the top court.

Mamata Banerjee's caustic "what UPA?" comment directed at the Congress after a meeting with Maharashtra leader Sharad Pawar on Wednesday came in a blast of criticism that did not spare Rahul Gandhi.

The central government has promised that there will not be a nationwide exercise to make people prove their citizenship through a National Register of Citizens or NRC and so there is no need to be concerned about the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said on Friday following a meeting with Prime Minister N...

Uddhav Thackeray should be chief minister of a Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-Congress alliance government in Maharashtra, leaders insisted at a meeting in Mumbai of the three parties on Friday. Sources say the Sena chief is under pressure from the NCP and the Congress to take the top post, but he has suggested other names. At a midnight meet...

The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) said on Wednesday that they would soon provide a "stable" government in Maharashtra but indicated that the terms of engagement with the Shiv Sena have to be worked out.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Sharad Pawar, after a 45-minute meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi at her home in Delhi on Monday, said they discussed the Maharashtra political situation but not government formation with the Shiv Sena.

Maharashtra was placed under President's Rule on Tuesday after a report from Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari to the centre that none of the three parties he had invited since Saturday - BJP, Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) - could produce enough numbers to stake claim to power even 20 days after the October 24 state election results. ...

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray met with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Sharad Pawar at an undisclosed location in Mumbai today to discuss getting together to form government in Maharashtra. The meeting took place after the Sena's only minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, Arvind Sawant, resigned, signalling the party's s...

Mamata Banerjee, sitting on an indefinite protest in Kolkata over a CBI investigation into Ponzi scams allegedly involving several members of her party, was accused by the central government of blocking a Supreme Court-ordered inquiry because she was "trying to hide something". CBI officers were detained last evening as they went to Kolkata police ...

Hours after BJP president Amit Shah told his party workers in Maharashtra to prep for a solo fight in the 2019 general election, ally Shiv Sena struck another combative note. "I'm fighting for the common man's dream, not for (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi's dream," Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray said in an interview published in his party mouthpiece S...

Mo-trust motion: In a huge embarrassment to the ruling BJP, ally Shiv Sena decided to stay away from the no-confidence vote in parliament. On Thursday, BJP chief Amit Shah had phoned Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray requesting his support. "Shiv Sena is the party which always follows directive of party chief. We have decided to take a principled stand a...

The BJP and Mamata Banerjee's party, the Trinamool Congress, are on a rapidly-escalating collision course that has, in the last 24 hours, included vandalism and an alleged bomb attack in Kolkata. The BJP office in Hooghly, 60 km from Calcutta was set on fire this evening. The violence is the result of the arrests of two parliamentarians, Tapas Pal ...

Women corporators of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) came to blows during the general body proceedings at the BMC headquaretrs in south Mumbai. The incident took place during a special session to dicuss building collapses in the city which have killed over 15 people this monsoon.