Alok Pandey Sunetra Choudhury

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra waved, grinned, flashed a thumbs-up sign and pointed Hillary Clinton-style as she launched her charm offensive in Uttar Pradesh today with a roadshow through Lucknow, a longtime BJP stronghold.

A plunge into electoral politics may not be far behind for Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who will soon join active politics from eastern Uttar Pradesh as the party's general secretary for the area.

In a huge blow to the Congress and its efforts to anchor opposition unity ahead of 2019, Uttar Pradesh politician Mayawati on Thursday announced an alliance in Chhattisgarh with Ajit Jogi, a known rebel expelled by the party in 2016.

A top Mayawati party leader was sacked on Tuesday, just hours after he "predicted" that Congress chief Rahul Gandhi is not prime minister material and "can never succeed in politics as he looks more like his mother, a foreigner".

The race for a single Rajya Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh became a thriller on Friday as Mayawati faced the manoeuvrers of a BJP out for revenge after she helped the Samajwadi Party (SP) win two of its safest parliamentary seats just days ago.

There are 11 candidates for the 10 Rajya Sabha seats and 37 first preference votes are needed for each seat. The BJP has enough lawmakers to win eight seats comfortably and the Samajwadi Party has enough to win one. The BJP is trying to win a ninth seat, challenging Mayawati.

Adding Tripura to the growing list of states it rules in what it called a "historic verdict," the BJP quickly shifted its focus to Meghalaya today as votes were counted for assembly elections in three northeast states. The party's northeast strategist Himanta Biswa Sarma headed to state capital Shillong where the next few hours will see hectic nego...

After billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi, industrialist Vikram Kothari, the promoter of Rotomac Pens, is being investigated by the CBI for defaulting on more than Rs 3,700 crore in loans from government banks. Investigators raided Vikram Kothari's home and establishments in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur around daybreak, hours after the CBI filed a First Info...

The Allahabad High Court will shortly decide whether dentist couple Nupur and Rajesh Talwar murdered their teen daughter, Aarushi, in 2008 at their home in Noida near Delhi. Aarushi was found dead in her bedroom; then Hemraj, the family's Nepalese domestic help was discovered killed on the terrace. The Talwars were sentenced to life in prison in 20...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is investigating the giant coal scam, today questioned entrepreneur Arvind Jayaswal, Director AMR Iron and Steel Private Limited, whose company is co-promoted by Congress MP Vijay Darda and his brother, Rajendra, currently the education minister of Maharashtra.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra waved, grinned, flashed a thumbs-up sign and pointed Hillary Clinton-style as she launched her charm offensive in Uttar Pradesh today with a roadshow through Lucknow, a longtime BJP stronghold.

A plunge into electoral politics may not be far behind for Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who will soon join active politics from eastern Uttar Pradesh as the party's general secretary for the area.

In a huge blow to the Congress and its efforts to anchor opposition unity ahead of 2019, Uttar Pradesh politician Mayawati on Thursday announced an alliance in Chhattisgarh with Ajit Jogi, a known rebel expelled by the party in 2016.

A top Mayawati party leader was sacked on Tuesday, just hours after he "predicted" that Congress chief Rahul Gandhi is not prime minister material and "can never succeed in politics as he looks more like his mother, a foreigner".

The race for a single Rajya Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh became a thriller on Friday as Mayawati faced the manoeuvrers of a BJP out for revenge after she helped the Samajwadi Party (SP) win two of its safest parliamentary seats just days ago.

There are 11 candidates for the 10 Rajya Sabha seats and 37 first preference votes are needed for each seat. The BJP has enough lawmakers to win eight seats comfortably and the Samajwadi Party has enough to win one. The BJP is trying to win a ninth seat, challenging Mayawati.

Adding Tripura to the growing list of states it rules in what it called a "historic verdict," the BJP quickly shifted its focus to Meghalaya today as votes were counted for assembly elections in three northeast states. The party's northeast strategist Himanta Biswa Sarma headed to state capital Shillong where the next few hours will see hectic nego...

After billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi, industrialist Vikram Kothari, the promoter of Rotomac Pens, is being investigated by the CBI for defaulting on more than Rs 3,700 crore in loans from government banks. Investigators raided Vikram Kothari's home and establishments in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur around daybreak, hours after the CBI filed a First Info...

The Allahabad High Court will shortly decide whether dentist couple Nupur and Rajesh Talwar murdered their teen daughter, Aarushi, in 2008 at their home in Noida near Delhi. Aarushi was found dead in her bedroom; then Hemraj, the family's Nepalese domestic help was discovered killed on the terrace. The Talwars were sentenced to life in prison in 20...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is investigating the giant coal scam, today questioned entrepreneur Arvind Jayaswal, Director AMR Iron and Steel Private Limited, whose company is co-promoted by Congress MP Vijay Darda and his brother, Rajendra, currently the education minister of Maharashtra.