Stating that an NBW has been issued by a court against Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday on a private complaint alleging disrespect to the tricolour, state

UP chief minister Mayawati’s proposal to split UP into four states has given the much-needed impetus to the National Federation of New States (NFNS) which now plans to move ahead on the slogan “News states for New India”.

Reacting to the BSP’s proposal to divide Uttar Pradesh UP into four smaller states, senior BJP leader L.K. Advani on Thursday said that the division of states should never be done in haste.

In the land of Lord Ram, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday promised to bring in Ram Rajya in Uttar Pradesh. Ayodhya, that wore a bright saffron hue with marigold strings, also reverberated with cries of “Jai Shri Ram” after a considerable gap.

The CPI’s Gurudas Dasgupta wants the Winter Session of Parliament to be extended fearing that government business — 31 bills for passage — may find it difficult as the session has only 17 sittings.

The government’s much-hyped Unique Identification Number project may run into rough weather with the security agencies raising strong objections to the biometric database being collected by the UID Authority, saying neither the data

Stepping up pressure on Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati, Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has shot off a 14-page letter to her, giving details of irregularities in the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National

Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s notebook of Bengali poems and songs, which he had gifted to a close family friend in 1930s, has been put on sale by a descendant of that family in New York.

The first meeting of the reconstituted Press Council of India held Thursday was a stormy affair, with four publisher members representing the Indian Newspaper

The Supreme Court on Thursday raised serious questions on the governance deficit, saying things had come to an “unfortunate” pass that the court had to issue contempt threats to states to implement even the Prime Minister’s directions to them on important issues.