India

New Delhi, Mar 3: In the last 10 years, the declared expenditure by political parties for the Lok Sabha elections grew over 400 percent, with BJP and Congress topping the charts in terms of capital mop-up, according to data analysed by the Association for Democratic Reforms. Spending on publicity is driving most of the increased expenditure. The total for last three general elections was Rs 2,237

New Delhi, Mar 3: Day-old Jammu and Kashmir government was hit by another row Monday when a group of PDP MLAs demanded that the Centre hand over the remains of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru to his Kashmir-based family. BJP has condemned the demand made by the group, asking its ally to shun "this type of politics". The party asserted that it practises zero tolerance on terrorism. On a day

New Delhi, Mar 2: In the midst of allegations, counter-allegations and leaked letters, the Aam Aadmi Party has decided to hold a meeting of its national executive on Wednesday to discuss the roles of senior leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan in the party. Addressing a press conference on Monday, party spokesperson Sanjay Singh said that a conspiracy to remove Arvind Kejriwal from the post

New Delhi: March 2: Crisis deepened in AAP with senior leader Prashant Bhushan accusing the party of running a "one person-centric" campaign revolving around Arvind Kejriwal during the Delhi elections contrary to its principles. Bhushan said the 'one person-centric' campaign was making the party look like other conventional parties and called for more "swaraj" within the organisation. "...one

Jammu, Mar 2: PDP chief Mufti Mohammad Sayeed called for peace Sunday after taking oath as chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, heading a coalition that brought the BJP to power for the first time in India's only Muslim-majority state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP leaders Amit Shah and L.K. Advani were among the 1,400 guests who witnessed the ceremony, over two months after the PDP and the

Jammu, Mar 1: Soon after taking oath, Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today stoked a controversy saying Hurriyat, militant outfits and "people from across the border", an oblique reference to Pakistan, allowed conducive atmosphere for assembly polls, drawing sharp reaction from NC leader Omar Abdullah who demanded that BJP clarify its stand. "I want to say this on record and I have told this

New Delhi, Mar 1: In a bizarre suggestion, a senior Madhya Pradesh minister has sought a law that allows people to domesticate or keep as pets big cats like lions and tigers for their conservation. Animal Husbandry, Horticulture and Food Processing Minister Kusum Mehdele, in a proposal sent to the state's forest department, has cited legal provisions in some African and South-East Asian countries

New Delhi, Mar 1: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) founding members Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav are likely to either resign from the party or assume non-active roles, sources said. A day after media reports stated that the party was looking at reconstituting the Parliamentary Affairs Committee (PAC) and keeping Yadav out of it, both party members expressed a desire to leave. AAP’s national convener

Jammu, Mar 1: People's Democratic Party (PDP) patron Mufti Mohmmad Sayeed took oath as the chief minister of a PDP-BJP coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Jammu's General Zorawar Singh Auditorium. The two-month-long negotiations over formation of a coalition government culminated with the swearing-in ceremony as the 79-year-old

New Delhi, Feb 28: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today announced a 5 per cent reduction in corporate tax over next four years, abolished wealth tax and replaced it with an additional 2 per cent surcharge on super-rich individuals, while increasing service tax that will result in higher cost of variety of services. In the first full-year Budget of the NDA government that shunned populism, he