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The BJP has secured a majority in the Delhi Assembly elections. Party leaders and workers celebrated their victory across the national capital, with their counterparts in other states also joining in.
AAP’s top leaders, including national convenor and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Saurabh Bharadwaj and Satyendar Jain, have lost their elections.
Kejriwal lost the high-profile New Delhi seat to BJP’s Parvesh Verma by a margin of 4,089 votes.
The Bharatiya Janata Party is poised to form a government in Delhi after more than 26 years.
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The recent sell-off in PSU stocks by institutions is driven by two main factors: valuation and performance concerns
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"Though Congress leaders beginning from Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru to Indira Gandhi and Manmohan Singh all have promised to end poverty, all of them have failed. However, our Prime Minister Narendra Modi has started the process to end poverty," he said.
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Congress accuses PM Modi of saying 'countless false things' against the previous UPA governments.
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In an exclusive interaction with Moneycontrol, Banerjee, who has been an ASG for the BJP-led Union government since it came to power in 2014, reviewed key legislations brought in by the government over the last nine years
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Twenty-four deaths, including that of 12 infants, have been reported in the last 24 hours in a government hospital in Nanded, a top Maharashtra health official said on earlier in the day.
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PM Modi addresses public meeting in Ajmer, Rajasthan to celebrate his government completing 9 years.
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The agitation in Assam had turned violent, with five people losing their lives in police firing and KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi and four others being arrested.
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BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia launched a sharp attack on the Congress leader for his remarks at a conference in London where Gandhi accused the ruling party of spreading "kerosene all over the country, you need one spark and we will be in big trouble".
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Shah said that UP elections were not about Muslims, Yadavs or Hindus and that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath may have been referring to voting percentages in his “80-20” remark.
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The project, completed by the Yogi Adityanath government at the estimated cost of Rs 22,496 crore, has sparked a war of words between the state’s ruling BJP and the opposition SP, with both parties taking credit for the project.
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No Private Member’s Bill, introduced on Fridays, has been passed by the Parliament since 1970. Till date,the Parliament has passed 14 such Bills, six of them in 1956
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Speaking to reporters outside the Legislature building here, Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Devendra Fadnavis said the protests will continue till the cultivators get justice.
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BJP leader and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad hit out at the Congress-NCP and the Shiv Sena, saying those who were "dead opposed" to each other joined hands to "grab" power, while the saffron party and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had won the popular mandate to form government.
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The fears about Mudra loans leading to the next wave of non-performing assets may be exaggerated
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The Sena, an ally of the BJP at the Centre and in Maharashtra, slammed Modi for his comment in a recent interview, broadcast by several TV channels, that any government action on the temple construction can happen only after the judicial process is over.
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Among the first few major decisions by the new government was the one to replace the Planning Commission with Niti Aayog
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Speaking during a discussion of Budgetary demands of his department in the Legislative Assembly, Finance Minister Nitin Patel also indicated that the Value Added Tax (VAT) on fuel is not likely to be reduced.
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Out of pocket expenditure constitutes more than 60 percent of all health expenses, a major drawback in a country like India where a large segment of the population is poor. Consulting firm PwC estimates that approximately 63 million people fall into poverty each year due to lack of financial protection for their healthcare needs.
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Structural reforms will help farmers in the long run, not just farm loan waivers, Sudhir Mungantiwar, Finance Minister, Maharashtra, tells Moneycontrol in an interview. He says that some of the policy measures in the agriculture sector initiated by the BJP government has already started showing results.
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Observing that loan waiver schemes "engender moral hazard", the Governor pitched for creating a consensus against loan waiver promises in the interest of healthy national balance sheet and public at large.
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"Neither the black money has come out nor has corruption reduced and things are as they were. It was only the common man who suffered while the rich were not at all affected," Uddhav said addressing an election rally for the February 21 Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) polls here.
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Petrol prices had crossed Rs 60 per litre mark in the coastal state after the price hike announced last night.
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The BJP government in October 2014 had approved a pricing formula that used rates prevalent in gas surplus economies like the US, Russia and Canada to price domestic gas.
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The BJP government is following Congress' "outdated" China policy, senior party leader Subramanian Swamy said as he termed Beijing's backing to Pakistan in the UN on the Mumbai terror attack mastermind Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi as a "wake up call" Swamy said.
