More than a month after they were elected, the members of the 16th Vidhan Sabha were administered oath on Wednesday.

The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court, in a significant decision on Tuesday, ordered that the print and electronic media should not report matters relating to movement of troops.

The ongoing war of words between senior SP minister Mohammed Azam Khan and Shahi Imam Syed Ahmad Bukhari, both Sunnis, has now tumbled into a major political and religious controversy with the Islamic

The performances were shoddy, actors lacked finesse and the production was amateurish. Yet it raised laughs, applause and the reference to the recent events were lapped up by the audience.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that she did not consider Communist icons like Karl Marx and Lenin as “untouchables”.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that she did not consider Communist icons like Karl Marx and Lenin as “untouchables”.

In a bid to keep the minority vote bank in good humour ahead of the crucial panchayat elections, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday showered largesse on the Muslims of North 24 Parga

Former UP chief minister Mayawati’s two dream projects — the Kanshi Ram Dalit Samagra Vikas Yojana and the Kanshi Ram Nagar Vikas Yojana — are being shut down by the Akhilesh Yadav government.

Mr Akhilesh Yadav may be the UP chief minister and also the state president of the Samajwadi Party but his doting father Mulayam Singh Yadav is not taking any chances when it comes to making crucial d

Subhashree Das, wife of Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda, was released on Tuesday from a jail in Orissa after a court acquitted her in a 2003 shootout case for lack of evidence.