The High-Level Committee (HLC), constituted by the government under the chairmanship of Ram Nath Kovind, the former President of India, to examine the issue relating to holding of simultaneous elections in the country held its meeting with the political parties on Saturday.
Amid speculation over the political discourse in Pakistan after the elections, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that his party has not had any 'official conversation' with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz or Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf.
Union Minister and President of the Republican Party of India (A) Ramdas Athawale met BJP President JP Nadda in Parliament on Saturday and discussed the political situation in Maharashtra.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday alleged that the Congress-led UPA government did not capitalise on the positive economic environment that it inherited from the Vajpayee government and there was "ill-targeted, reckless fiscal policy, ill targeted subsidies and wasteful expendi
In a major political development, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) has claimed that it has won 170 out of 265 National Assembly seats and is set to form an alliance with Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM), Pakistan-based The Nation reported on Saturday.
Even though the counting of votes was underway and no clear winner in sight, the major political parties in Pakistan held meetings on Friday night aiming to wrangle sufficient numbers to form governments in the Centre and the four provinces, Dawn reported.
Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff, General Asim Munir, has said that the country needs stable hands and added that a unified government of all democratic forces will adequately represent Pakistan's diverse political and pluralistic landscape.
Abhishek, 41, the son of former Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Vinod Ghosalkar, was shot dead in Borivali in suburban Mumbai on Thursday evening during a social media live, allegedly by his old political rival Mauris Noronha, 47, who later died by suicide.
"Sandeshkhali is CPI(M)'s bastion. We have never won in this area. The violence is a result of the collective efforts of both the BJP and the CPI(M). Out of 14 anchals in the area, violence was orchestrated in one anchal. This isolated incident is being used to propagate that violence is
Congress leader Manish Tewari, in his reply to the debate on the 'White Paper' in the Lok Sabha on Friday, highlighted the achievements of the previous Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government and termed it as a 'political manifesto' of the ruling party.