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NDA eyes majority in Rajya Sabha after bypolls for 12 seats next month

The BJP and its allies are expected to win 11 of the 12 seats in the elections, which will take the NDA past the half-way mark to 122 seats in the 245-member house

Hindenburg row: Congress interested in anarchy, controversies, says Scindia

The Sebi has slammed Hindenburg Research's allegations as "baseless" while the Adani group said it never had any commercial relations with Buch

TMC demands immediate suspension of Sebi chair Buch after Hindenburg report

Hindenburg accused Buch and her husband of having undisclosed investments in obscure offshore funds in Bermuda and Mauritius

SC to hear bail plea of Senthil Balaji in money laundering case on Monday

A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih is scheduled to hear Balaji's plea challenging the February 28 order of the Madras High Court

Court should take note of assault on shanty-dwellers in Ghaziabad: Akhilesh

Members of the outfit assaulted the group of people living near a railway station in Ghaziabad and destroyed their shanties, claiming they were Bangladeshi infiltrators

Jairam Ramesh calls for review of Great Nicobar Island project by panels

Compensatory afforestation, which is no substitute whatsoever for the loss of natural biodiversity-rich forests, is being planned thousands of kms away and in a vastly different ecology, Ramesh said

SC should take note of allegations against Sebi chief by Hindenburg: AAP

Addressing a press conference here, AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said the Sebi had told a Supreme Court panel that the investigation into the Adani group was directionless

Made contribution to diplomacy: Leaders condole Natwar Singh's demise

He breathed his last at Medanta Hospital in Gurugram near Delhi, where he had been admitted for the past couple of weeks, they said

Meghwal accuses Oppn of creating confusion over creamy layer observation

Meghwal noted that though the opposition is aware that the top court had only made an observation on creamy layer, it is trying to create confusion among people

Cong yet to raise voice, seems to favour SC, ST sub-classification: BSP

On August 1, the Supreme Court held that states are constitutionally empowered to make sub-classifications within scheduled castes and scheduled tribes

Former EAM K Natwar Singh: A man who wore many hats and spoke his mind

Singh passed away on Saturday night after a prolonged illness, family sources said. He was 93

Eliminate conflicts of interest in Sebi's probe of Adani Group: Congress

The opposition party also said the seeming complicity of the highest officials of the land can only be resolved by setting up a Joint Parliamentary Committee to investigate the full scope of the scam

Assembly polls is fight against those who hate Maharashtra: Uddhav

Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray said women should take benefit of the scheme as it is their own money, but should not compromise on self-respect

AAP's Sisodia calls upon people to fight against 'dictatorship' in country

The former deputy chief minister claimed that while in jail, he was pained to see hundreds of businessmen being put in prison in 'fake cases just because they did not donate money to the BJP'

'Caught napping at wheels': Cong slams govt over trade deficit with China

Our domestic industries are being decimated and shutting down, unable to compete with the onslaught of cheap Chinese goods, the Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said

MVA gave contract to frame, jail me in false cases, says Fadnavis

Of late, Fadnavis has been locked in a war of words with Anil Deshmukh, since the latter accused the BJP politician of trying to exert pressure

People have to fight against 'dictatorship' in country, says Sisodia

Targeting the BJP, he also said these people are not more powerful than the Constitution

BJP-JD(S) protest march seeking Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah resignation

Bengaluru-Mysuru padayatre (foot march) sought to highlight the alleged fraudulent allotment of sites to land losers by MUDA

Oppn tarnishing image with false charges regarding MUDA scam: Siddaramaiah

Asserting that he will fight against the charges both politically and legally, the CM also said he will expose opposition leaders

PIL seeks disqualification of all Cong MPs for financial guarantees

PIL has also sought direction against the Election Commission of India (ECI), accusing it of failing to act against the Congress campaign