The Opposition Congress has started picking up the pieces in Manipur following its debacle in the state Assembly polls, instructing its members to withdraw all election-related complaints and protests...

Democratic elections are often viewed as referendums on the performance of the incumbent. The results of Uttar Pradesh’s assembly election represent more than that: they serve as a weathervane f...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday urged all banks to speed up the clearance of students’ credit card applications. The state government had launched the students’ credit card sch...

Sixteen years after contesting the Bengal Assembly polls with the BJP, Trinamul supremo Mamata Banerjee, who was re-elected chairperson of the party on Wednesday, described her former alliance partner...

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad has announced he will contest against chief minister Yogi Adityanath from the Gorakhpur Urban seat. “It’s Mandal against kamandal. Adityanath is danger...

Like alchemy, which was an obsessive concern for the medieval world, modern democracies are forever preoccupied with unearthing the secrets of winning elections. In the not-so-distant past, striking t...

Mamatabala Thakur, who heads a faction of Matuas, on Sunday invited five BJP MLAs deemed close to a rival camp of the community to join the Trinamul Congress, a day after they had all exited an offici...

The BJP alleged that Trinamul cadres had captured several booths by driving away Opposition agents and resorted to false voting. “It is almost impossible that about 27 per cent polling was recor...

A major outreach in Jammu and Kashmir by Congress veteran Ghulam Nabi Azad, who is among the dissenters in the party known as the “Group of 23”, has triggered speculation that he might flo...

Congress veteran P Chidambaram on Thursday expressed confidence that his party will win the Goa Assembly elections due next year and also the next Lok Sabha polls in 2024. Chidambaram, who is the AIC...