Deve Gowda's son, H D Kumaraswamy said that the Former Prime Minister made his decision following the request of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, several national leaders and party legislators, and it was not an easy task to "persuade" him to enter the Rajya Sabha.

In a major snub to its State core committee, the BJP high command has rejected the three names recommended by it for issuing tickets to contest the Rajya Sabha polls scheduled on June 19.

Legislators who take bribes to vote a particular way can't be prosecuted, the Supreme Court had ruled in 1998. But if they don't vote, they no longer have immunity and can be punished for any gratification received.

Turkey and Libya agreed to further enhance their cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean over a deal made on maritime delimitation, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday.

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi has hit out at the Uttar Pradesh Government on the mess and illegality in teachers’ recruitment in the state.

Nepal is expected to host a large delegation of personnel from the medical unit of China’s People’s Liberation Army to deal with the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, a source familiar with the discussion inside the Nepal Communist Party has said.

New Delhi: The highest-level meeting of Indian and Chinese military officers to discuss the ongoing stand-off in eastern Ladakh has not led to any rollback in China’s new deployments along the line of actual control (LAC), with the Indian government asserting that both sides would continue to remain engaged in order to resolve the situation.

New Delhi, June 06: Indian and Chinese armies on Saturday held Lieutenant General-level talks in their first major attempt to resolve the month-long border standoff in eastern Ladakh, official sources said.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi slammed the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh over the alleged suicide by a farmer in Muzaffarnagar

In view of the restrictions pertaining to gatherings in the time of the Covid-19 outbreak, the party has divided its legislators in three groups confining them locally at resorts in Ambaji, Rajkot and Vadodara.