The parliamentary standing committee on finance, which submitted its report on the Direct Tax Code Bill to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Friday, has recommended hiking the tax exemption limit to Rs

Within 48 hours of the drubbing the Congress received in Uttar Pradesh, party leaders in the state have started playing the blame game.

Sanjay Singh, Congress MP from Sultanpur, told reporters on Thu

The legislative party of Shiromani Akali Dal on Friday unanimously elected Mr Prakash Singh Badal, patron of Shiromani Akali Dal as their leader paving the way for creating history for his swearing-in

On the eve of the results for the crucial Assembly elections in five states, including politically crucial Uttar Pradesh, BJP top brass on Monday met to formalise the party’s strategy to deal with var

The Congress made early gains in Punjab Tuesday as vote count began for 117 assembly seats.

The Congress was leading on three seats while the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal was leading in one seat, offic

The people have delivered their verdict and before the 2014 General elections, the message is loud and clear – a wake up call for the national parties.

As the current trend indicates, Samajwadi Part

“Opinion and exit polls should at best be on entertainment channels!,” Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi tweeted on Sunday, taking an apparent dig at the surveys.

The reaction of the CEC, who

Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Sunday trashed the result projections thrown up by exit polls for five states, terming such exercises as ‘fraud’, and predicted ‘astonishing’ gains for the

Talk of a power-sharing arrangement has begun in the political circles amid exit poll predictions of a hung Uttar Pradesh Assembly.

Though the current mood in the Congress is not to join any body’s g

A senior US judge has written to President Barack Obama apologising for a racist joke he sent in an email, and has also initiated a judicial complaint procedure against himself.

Richard Cebull, chief