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Finance Minister Palanivel Thiagarajan said that for the first time since 2014, the revenue deficit is set to decrease by over Rs 7,000 crore.

A Congress tragedy unfolded on Thursday as trends from the counting of votes in five poll-states trickled in, showing that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was on its way to winning in four of them, including Uttar Pradesh, which sends 80 members to the Lok Sabha and Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) winning Punjab for the first time and thereby becoming the only

The electoral implications of the SP-SBSP alliance, a significant coming together of a dominant and a most backward caste party, may not be as straightforward as it appears to be.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to entertain an argument seeking the appeals against the Madras High Court order, quashing the quota for Vanniyar community in Tamil Nadu, in jobs and education, be referred to a larger bench.A bench ...

'Rome Pope Ka, Madhepura Gope Ka' (Rome belongs to the Pope and Madhepura to Yadavs), so goes the saying in Bihar, a cradle of caste politics in India. Known as the 'Vatican of Yadavs', Madhepura has elected a Yadav MP for 14 consecutive polls. There are several such parliamentary seats across the country, where deep-rooted caste divisions still play a decisive role in

'Rome Pope Ka, Madhepura Gope Ka' (Rome belongs to the Pope and Madhepura to Yadavs), so goes the saying in Bihar, a cradle of caste politics in India. Known as the 'Vatican of Yadavs', Madhepura has elected a Yadav MP for 14 consecutive polls. There are several such parliamentary seats across the country, where deep-rooted caste divisions still play a decisive role in

BJP Rajya Sabha MP Ram Chander Jangra, an OBC, said he would raise the matter in Parliament

Significantly, the legislators who quit the BJP made it a point to put across the resentment among backward communities as clearly as possible.

Just as the second wave of Covid-19 had started to recede in June 2021, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dispatched its top party general secretary, in-charge of organisation, BL Santhosh, to Uttar Pradesh to assess and gauge the mood of the cadres. Santhosh, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) nominated pracharak on deputation to the BJP camped in Lucknow for three days to

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to examine a plea by the Tamil Nadu government and others against the Madras High Court's judgment which quashed the law on internal reservation of 10.5 per cent to the Vanniyar community under the Most Backward Classes category. A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao, B R Gavai and B V Nagarathna issued notice to those, who challenged the law