'AAP has become khaas from aam': Kailash Gahlot joins BJP

Former Delhi minister Kailash Gahlot joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday, a day after resigning from the Aam Aadmi Party, and accused his former party of constantly picking fights with the......

Former BJD MP Jay Panda joins BJP ahead of polls

Former Biju Janata Dal lawmaker Baijyant 'Jay' Panda joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday, giving a boost to the party in Odisha where it is looking to improve its tally in the upcoming Lok......

BJD MP Jay Panda on the Maoists, Posco and more

Bijayant 'Jay' Panda symbolises the young Indian politician who appears just as comfortable in Parliament as he is in Kendrapara, the rural Orissa parliamentary constituency from which he has......

Jolt to BSP ahead of LS polls as MP Ritesh Pandey quits party, joins BJP

Ahead of the upcoming general elections, Bahujan Samaj Party Lok Sabha MP from Ambedkar Nagar Ritesh Pandey on Sunday resigned from the party's primary membership and joined the Bharatiya Janata......

Parties rubbish Plan Panel's poverty figures

No one seems to believe the poverty figures laid out by the Planning Commission. Even the United Progressive Alliance constituent Nationalist Congress Party on Wednesday rubbished the Planning......

Opposition calls the Budget 'anti-poor, anti-middle class'

Image: Budget fails to provide 'Aacche din' to poor. Photograph: Reuters     The Opposition on Saturday slammed as "hollow and plain" BJP's first full-year union budget, saying it......

Pitroda among telecom licence applicants

The rush to enter the world's fastest-growing mobile services market has attracted a wide range of applicants for telecom licences with the Department of Telecommunications. Among the 46......

Angioplasty on Ganguly's other blockages to be done later

IMAGE: Sourav Ganguly's close friend and CPI-M leader Ashok Bhattacharya had on Sunday said that the former cricketer was "under pressure" to join politics. Photograph: BCCI/IPL Board of Control......

Sports Shorts: Prajnesh makes second straight Masters main draw

IMAGE: A 6-4, 6-4 victory in the second qualifying round of the ATP-1000 tennis tournament earned Prajnesh Gunneswaran a place in the main draw. Photograph: Edgar Su/Reuters India's number one......