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Sanjay Jaiswal made BJP’s Bihar unit president, Satish Punia party’s Rajasthan chief

Political watchers believe Sanjay Jaiswal may help the BJP bring some harmony in its uneven tie-up with Nitish Kumar-led JD(U).

Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari opposes odd-even scheme, writes to CM Arvind Kejriwal

In his letter, Manoj Tiwari called the scheme a gimmick to divert the attention of Delhiites as AAP has substantially failed to deliver.

SIT questions law student who accused BJP leader Chinmayanand of rape

The student gave a pen drive containing 43 videos to support her allegations after she was asked by the SIT Saturday to submit whatever evidence she had.

BJP’s Jayant Sinha to head parliamentary panel on finance, PP Choudhary external affairs

Rahul Gandhi will now be in the Defence panel, according to the changes in the parliament's standing committees made late Friday night.

BJP chief Amit Shah and party colleagues mop AIIMS floor as part of ‘seva saptah’

Amit Shah launched 'seva saptah' Saturday to celebrate PM Modi's birthday on September 17, said Modi had dedicated his life to serving the the poor.

At Howdy, Modi! event in US, PM to draw ‘largest-ever’ crowd after Pope

A record audience of over 50,000 people have already registered for the event to be held on 22 September at the sprawling NRG stadium in Houston.

Sonia Gandhi doesn’t want to ‘copy’ BJP, rejects proposal to call party trainers ‘preraks’

Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi doesn’t want to use the term ‘prerak’ for party trainers as it sounds similar to BJP’s ‘pracharak’.

Congress is so desperate to survive in Maharashtra it wants to ally with fringe player SP

The decision to ally with the SP was discussed by the Congress at the Maharashtra screening committee meeting in New Delhi.

Manmohan Singh tells BJP — $5-trillion economy a pipe dream, there’s only gloom & doom

Recalling 2008 economic crisis, Manmohan Singh said Congress had faced it head-on and converted the slump into an opportunity to revitalise growth rate.

BJP seeks nationwide ban on Colors TV’s serial ‘Ram Siya Ke Luv Kush’

BJP leaders’ delegation met I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar, days after the Valmiki community staged protests against the controversial show.

On Camera

Haryana win is redemption, J&K defeat is vindication. BJP is walking out of Lok Sabha poll fog

A leader's charisma is a big plus. But don't underestimate the craft of mounting an election campaign. Haryana is BJP's reward for mastering it. All-round participation and peaceful polling in J&K too is a win.

How businesses can become more resilient to the physical impacts of climate change

Extreme weather events have impacted 50% of corporate respondents to a recent survey. This underlines the importance of significant action now to increase climate resilience.

‘Nightmare at Chennai Marina’: 4 dead, 96 hospitalised after pandemonium at packed IAF air show

Lakhs of people were stranded at beach in heat as crowd control measures apparently failed. At least 14 lakh people were in attendance though police had expected around 10 lakh.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?