Has the Opposition’s coming together as INDIA changed things in Bengal? If you heard TMC chief Mamata Banerjee’s Martyrs’ Day rally speech on July 21, you would have certainly asked yourself this question. It was a welcome change for the Opposition bloc a...

The next meeting of the opposition alliance INDIA is likely to be held after August 15 in Mumbai, a leader of the bloc said Friday. An 11-member coordination committee is likely to be finalised in the Mumbai meeting, the third such after the Patna and Ben...

While 65 parties have joined either the BJP or the Congress-led coalition, there are at least 11 more with a total of 91 members in Parliament who have chosen to stay neutral for now in the high-stakes general elections next year. Three of the fence-sitte...

The Congress on Thursday set up a 29-member Pradesh Election Committee for poll-bound Rajasthan with state unit chief Govind Singh Dotasra named as its chairman. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his former deputy Sachin Pilot, besides former Union minister...

In another setback to NCP supremo Sharad Pawar on Thursday, all the office bearers, including 7 MLAs of NCP from Nagaland, joined hands with his nephew and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s faction. Earlier this month, Ajit Pawar and eight ot...

Two days after a meeting of the National Democratic Alliance chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi, the ruling alliance is all set to take forward its plans for the Lok Sabha elections next year. The entire NDA has been divided into 10 clusters...

Even though the government was ready for a discussion on Manipur, the opposition disrupted Parliament proceedings and did now allow the debate to take place, the BJP charged on Thursday as it questioned the timing of the surfacing of a May 4 video of two...

In a rare gesture, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday had a brief conversation with Congress leader Sonia Gandhi in Lok Sabha chamber. PM Modi reportedly asked Gandhi about her well-being after her flight from Bengaluru made an emergency landing on...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has sought to rebut Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s criticism of his alliance with the RJD, underscoring his old friendship with the party’s founding president Lalu Prasad. Kumar was on Wednesday asked by journalists about...

The formation of a new opposition alliance called ‘INDIA’ at the national level is nothing but a new version of the East India Company, BJP leader and Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje has said. Those who looted the country for 60 years have now come toget...

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....