Politics

Frank-Walter Steinmeier elected German president

Former German Vice-Chancellor Frank-Walter Steinmeier has been elected as the new German president. The Social Democrat received 931 of 1,260 votes in parliament. The German president holds little executive power but has representative duties. Steinmeier will succeed Joachim Gauck, who stepped down after serving one five-year term.

Feb 12, 2017

Assembly elections 2017: Chandrashekhar Kanaujia, Alapur SP candidate, passes away due to heart attack while campaigning in Ambedkar Nagar

Congress VP Rahul Gandhi held a road show and Nukkad Sabha in Haridwar, Uttarakhand.

Feb 12, 2017

TN AIADMK crisis: MLAs at resort in touch with me, sharing their ordeal, says OPS

Follow all the updates on the political drama which continues over the succession in the state of Tamil Nadu.

Feb 12, 2017

Nicola Sturgeon writes to Theresa May over shameful backtrack on helping child refugees

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has urged the UK Prime Minister Theresa May to reverse the governments shameful decision to turn away child refugees.

Feb 11, 2017

Uttarakhand Polls 2017: 'Time for politicians and bureaucrats to pay for their wrongdoing,' says PM Modi at Rudrapur rally

The Prime Minister also vowed to eliminate corruption and fight against black money.

Feb 11, 2017

UP elections 2017 phase 1 round-up: Polling mostly peaceful amid 64% voter turnout

Over 64 percent of 2.6 crore voters exercised their franchise on Saturday, sealing the fate of 839 candidates across 73 Assembly constituencies.

Feb 11, 2017

UP Assembly Elections 2017: Rahul-Akhilesh release Common Minimum Programme; Cong VP reacts to PM Modi's 'raincoat' jibe

"PM Modi likes to rake up people's janam patris. He only knows how to Google things. He likes to peek into bathrooms," Rahul Gandhi said in Lucknow.

Feb 11, 2017

UP Assembly Elections 2017: BJP will write off Akhilesh-Congress alliance at its own peril

Akhilesh Yadav's last-minute rise in the Samajwadi Party and allying with the Congress could be a game-changer and put the BJP under bigger pressure.

Feb 11, 2017

UP Assembly Elections 2017 phase 1 updates: Polling ends; 63 percent voter turnout

Around 2.6 crore voters will exercise their franchise in 26,823 polling booths across 73 constituencies on Saturday.

Feb 11, 2017

Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections 2017: Pilibhit campaign disrupted by man-eating tigress

A two-year-old man eating tigress has killed five in the Indo-Nepal Terai region making the campaigning difficult in the area.

Feb 10, 2017

Climate change scientists alienated by Trump offered open door in France

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has repeated his 4 February invitation for US scientists affected by President Donald Trump’s stance on climate change to relocate to France. Macron, the candidate for En Marche!, who describes himself as neither right- nor left-wing, said in the clip that the message was for, “American researchers, entrepreneurs, engineers, working on climate change,” and that they were welcome in France.

Feb 10, 2017

Marine Le Pen: The division between left and right is an illusion

Speaking on BBC Twos documentary After Brexit: The Battle For Europe on 9 February, National Front president Marine Le Pen called the right and left of politics an illusion. The controversial populist presidential hopeful claimed that real division was between globalists and patriots. Le Pen also addressed the issue of the National Front being seen as racist, saying that those critics no longer exist in France and it is only people outside of France that hold that opinion.

Feb 10, 2017

UP Assembly Elections 2017: Last-minute scamper among BJP, BSP to fix chinks in their armour

In the first of the seven-phase Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, over 2.5 crore people in 73 constituencies of western UP will cast their vote on Saturday, Feb. 11.

Feb 10, 2017

Women will get 33% reservation in Parliament if BJP gets majority in Rajya Sabha: Vankaiah Naidu

To boost its number in the Upper House of parliament, the BJP has to produce a good result in UP where elections will kick off on Saturday (Feb 11).

Feb 10, 2017

TN AIADMK political crisis: OPS winning Panneerselvam vs Sasikala battle as HC asks police for report on 'missing' AIADMK MLAs

Over 130 AIADMK MLAs have not been seen since Wednesday after General Secretary Sasikala sent them to a five-star resort near Chennai lest they join Panneerselvam's camp.

Feb 10, 2017