New Delhi:  The sum for expenses of union ministers has been increased by 15.4 percent in the current fiscal.The union budget 2014-15, presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in parliament Thursday proposed Rs.433 crore for

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's close aide Amit Shah may be named the next BJP president Wednesday, party sources said.The parliamentary board of the BJP, its top decision making body, will be meeting in

Lucknow: Ahead of the rail budget, union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has spoken to Railway Minister D.V. Sadanand Gowda about service upgradation of railways in Lucknow - his constituency, sources said here Monday.With footfalls at

Mumbai: Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray today downplayed the demand made during the BJP state executive meeting about going solo in the upcoming Assembly elections, saying that the saffron alliance put together by its top

Katra: Underlining that economic development of Jammu and Kashmir is largely dependent on railways, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today stressed the need for early completion of unconnected stretches of Jammu-Baramulla Railway track.Omar said that economic

Katra (Jammu and Kashmir): Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday that former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's dream of restoring peace in Jammu and Kashmir will be realised.Modi made the comments after flagging off the

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to visit Jammu and Kashmir for a day's trip on Friday. He is expected to visit Jammu, Katra, Srinagar and Uri.Modi's visit to Jammu and Kashmir Friday

Lucknow: He is only a few days old in the Raj Bhavan here. But Uttar Pradesh's acting Governor Aziz Qureshi is already courting controversy.Given additional charge of the state along with Uttarakhand, Qureshi, a former

New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Thursday described the Emergency rule of 1975-77, proclaimed on this day in 1975, as the "worst post-independence chapter" of Indian democracy."The Emergency displayed the weakness of the Indian constitutional

New Delhi: Wearing seat belt could have saved Rural Development Minister Gopinath Munde who died in a road accident, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan today said and announced a major campaign to spread awareness on

New Delhi: Ahead of his swearing-in, Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi Monday paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi and visited former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at his residence here.Modi had said in a tweet Sunday: "Tomorrow

New Delhi: The magestic forecourt of the historic Rashtrapati Bhavan is gearing up for a gala swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi next Monday as the 15th Prime Minister of the country in the presence of

Jaipur: RSS today said it will not interfere in the functioning of the BJP-led government at the Centre, dismissing suggestions that it was running the party through “remote control”.“Sangh has not given any guidelines to

New Delhi: Jubilant even before the results of the Lok Sabha election are declared Friday, the BJP office in Delhi was Thursday decked up and party workers got ready with fire crackers and sweets. In

Srinagar: BJP leader Narendra Modi's probable rise to the top job in India invokes both hope and uncertainty among people in Jammu and Kashmir.Whichever way the locals view Modi, nobody doubts that once in power,

Pilibhit (UP): Terming the ambitious river-linking plans of BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi as “extremely dangerous”, party MP Maneka Gandhi has said it was she who had stopped former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee from

New Delhi: A day after Narendra Modi's long meeting with top RSS brass, BJP president Rajnath Singh today met senior Sangh leaders at the RSS office here.  Singh is believed to have discussed party strategy

New Delhi: BJP's PM candidate Narendra Modi Saturday said that he had gone to seek the blessings of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Delhi after the end of the poll campaign."After addressing final

New Delhi: BJP prime ministerial candidate candidate Narendra Modi and president Rajnath Singh met RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat here to "exchange notes" as the Lok Sabha campaign drew to a close.Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh spokesperson Ram

Lucknow: Polling for 14 seats in the fourth phase of Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh would be held tomorrow to decide the fate of 233 candidates, including political heavyweights Sonia Gandhi and Rajnath Singh.