It’s BJP vs estranged allies in Bihar and Maharashtra bypolls | India News

PATNA/MUMBAI: The byelections in Bihar, scheduled for November 3, are likely to generate maximum heat as BJP and the JD(U)-RJD-Congress coalition will be facing each other for the first time at the hustings after CM Nitish Kumar snapped ties with the saffron party and their government collapsed on August 9. Nitish is already drumming up … Read more

Four minors in Hyderabad gangrape case to be tried as adults | India News

HYDERABAD: The Juvenile Justice Board Friday gave its consent to prosecute four of the five minors accused in the Jubilee Hills gang-rape, barring the son of a local MLA, as adults. The MLA’s son will be treated as a juvenile on the ground that the charge against him – assaulting a woman or using criminal … Read more

Himachal Pradesh: Why Congress fell back on Virbhadra Singh’s legacy

NEW DELHI: As Himachal Pradesh inches forward to assembly election in less than six months, the principal opposition Congress party is grappling with the twin issues of factionalism and leadership crisis. Having failed to nurture a strong second line of leaders, the party has been forced to fall back upon the legacy of its tallest … Read more

Hanuman Chalisa row: Bail pleas of Rana couple likely to be decided on May 2

MUMBAI: A special court in Mumbai is expected to rule on the bail applications of detained independent MP Navneet Rana and her MLA husband Ravi Rana on May 2. The couple had moved court seeking bail in an FIR registered by the police following their plan to recite Hanuman Chalisa outside chief minister Uddhav Thackeray’s … Read more