Congress leaders say at least one of the two independents who withdrew support to the Karnataka government will join the coalition again
3 min read17 Jan 2019North Korea violated an armistice agreement with South Korea this month when North Korean soldiers shot and wounded a North Korean soldier as he defected across their border
2 min read27 Nov 2017Shiv Sena's Harshvardhan Jadhav says BJP leader Chandrakant Patil had offered him and 25 other Shiv Sena MLAs Rs5 crore each to join the BJP
2 min read16 Nov 2017Opacity in political financing, fear of party fragmentation, dynastic succession, and lack of intra-party democracy are all mutually reinforcing variables
4 min read1 Nov 2017Jagan Mohan Reddy alleges 21 of his MLAs and one MLC defected to ruling TDP for ministerial berths or huge cash
1 min read28 Oct 2017The defection of six Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) corporators in the BMC to the Shiv Sena has opened up several political possibilities in Mumbai politics
3 min read23 Oct 2017The Congress contests the Rajya Sabha polls even as the BJP, with the central machinery at its disposal, undermines it at every step
1 min read4 Aug 2017BJP chief Amit Shah has dismissed allegations of his party having engineered defections in rival parties, claiming a misinformation campaign was being carried out
2 min read31 Jul 2017In a reversal of fortunes, just as Shankersinh Vaghela's exit from BJP helped the Congress in the mid-1990s, this time around the advantage is for the ruling BJP
5 min read31 Jul 2017Stung by the recent defection of MLAs to BJP, the Congress in Gujarat is trying to safeguard the renomination of Ahmed Patel to the Rajya Sabha
2 min read31 Jul 2017The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared