The report of the States Reorganization Commission, submitted to the Government of India in September 1955, is remembered above all for recommending that provincial boundaries be redrawn on linguistic...

Rahul Gandhi on Friday met senior Congress leaders from Gujarat to elicit their opinion on the next state president who would lead the party in the Assembly polls next year. Such wide consultations o...

If more women contest the elections, it does not mean that they will all become legislators. But to go by the All India Congress Committee general secretary, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, women’s polit...

Move forward Sir — It is heartening to know that the Congress general secretary, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, has announced that 40 per cent of seats will be reserved for women in the upcoming Uttar ...

On Wednesday, Priyanka had spoken to several school and college girls after police had stopped her on her way to Agra. “She asked about us. We told her that we didn’t have phones, which wa...

Police sources have said that Arun, a sweeper at Jagdishpura police station in Agra, was detained on Sunday on the charge of stealing Rs 25 lakh from the locker room. The police say the money had been...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday inaugurated an international airport at Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar and hailed it as the “fulfilment of a commitment” in the election-bound s...

Political scientist Zoya Hasan told The Telegraph: “This is an innovative, radical idea whose time has come. Giving tickets to woman candidates is one way of increasing representation of women i...

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday said the decision to field 40 per cent women candidates in the Assembly election in Uttar Pradesh is for “every woman who wants to bri...

The BJP on Monday sought to project the “leadership and guidance” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the principal pitch for the upcoming Assembly polls in five states, signalling its deep...