With the Congress forging an alliance with 25 other parties including the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to form the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), the party’s Punjab unit finds itself in a quandary over the tie-up with the senior state...

The BJP in Bihar on Tuesday accused the Congress of putting up posters in Bengaluru defaming Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. The Congress hit back saying it was the BJP which indulged in ”posterbaazi” and claimed that the saffron party, which had secured a b...

The Congress on Wednesday hit back at Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma who took a swipe at the opposition coalition with his remarks that the British had named the country India, saying he should tell that to Prime Minister Narendra Modi who gave...

As the Bengaluru Opposition meeting concluded on Tuesday, the National Democratic Alliance meeting (NDA) came together in Delhi for a show of strength. PM Modi, BJP president JP Nadda reached the venue. Union Minister Pralhad Joshi and BJP general secreta...

After the deliberation at the Congress’s big opposition meeting in Bengaluru, the leaders of key opposition parties decided to call their alliance ‘Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge announced....

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday praised the Narendra Modi government’s success in making G20 a “buzzword”, but expressed concerns over the country’s China policy beyond the ban on Chinese apps. Speaking at the CNN-News18 Delhi Town Hall, t...

With several opposition parties holding a meeting aimed at forging unity for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury on Monday ruled out any alliance with the TMC in West Bengal and said that secular parties along with the Left and the Con...

Janata Dal (Secular) leader H D Kumaraswamy on Monday termed as “premature” talks of an electoral tie-up between his party and the BJP for the Lok Sabha elections next year. He also attacked the Congress over the meeting of Opposition leaders here, saying...

The opposition meeting in Bengaluru on July 17-18 is expected to be more critical and important than the Patna session as the success of the second edition will depend on the parties creating a foolproof plan to tackle their common goal of “BJP harao, Mod...

The NCP is now split into two after Ajit Pawar’s rebellion, who recently decided to join the NDA-led Maharashtra government with some MLAs. Till he became the second deputy chief minister of the state, Ajit was the leader of the opposition in the legislat...

Ending weeks of suspense, the Aam Aadmi Party finally decided to attend the second meeting of opposition parties in Bengaluru on July 17 and 18 as the Congress declared it was against the Delhi ordinance. One of its key demands met, the Arvind Kejriwal-le...

The BJP, which single-handedly won 303 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls by securing nearly 38 per cent votes, has set a target of winning 350 plus seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. For this, the party is working on several fronts simultaneously. Bes...

The Opposition parties are all set to meet in Karnataka’s Bengaluru today and tomorrow to chalk out a strategy to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The invites for the meeting — conveyed by Congress — were sent out by t...

By Dr Arun Mira Much is being talked about making 100 cities throughout the country as smart cities. Focus of smartness is on digitalization, beautification, high rise buildings, big flyovers, wide spaces for cars to run on the roads, luxury parks etc. Li...

By James M Dorsey A recent 27-year, four million-tonne liquefied natural gas (LNG) Qatari export agreement with China, the longest in gas export history, highlights different Gulf state approaches to navigating big power rivalry between the People’s Repub...