Shillong: With counting of votes in Meghalaya set for Thursday, both the ruling Congress and non-Congress parties are confident of winning the elections.

A whopping 88 percent of the 1.5 million voters exercised their franchise Feb 16 to pick a new 60-member house in the state bordering Bangladesh.

There were 345 candidates, including 25 women and 122 independents.

But some experts fear that Meghalaya may be headed for a fractured mandate.

"I have always believed that Meghalaya will never get a clear mandate since elections here are conducted based on the personality of the...

New Delhi: Rejecting the government's offer for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the VVIP helicopter deal, the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) said on Wednesday this was aimed at scuttling the investigations as the current Lok Sabha's term will end next year.

"JPC is meaningless in present situation because the Lok Sabha term will end in about a year's time and as we know JPCs take...

Raipur: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh termed the rail budget "highly disappointing" while opposition leaders called it "balanced and growth-oriented".

Talking to reporters in the state assembly, Raman Singh, heading the BJP government in the state, said it was a highly disappointing rail budget in which Chhattisgarh has been neglected.

"The people of Chhattisgarh had a lot of...

Lucknow: The 11-month-old Akhilesh Yadav government has undertaken the biggest reshuffle of the bureaucracy by transferring 51 Indian Administrative Service, 48 Provincial Civil Service, 88 Indian Police Service and 92 Provincial Police Service officials.

Many of those shifted were considered close to the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) but were shown the door after almost a "year of dismal and...

New Delhi: Continuing his sessions with state leaders, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday interacted with chief ministers, state unit chiefs and legislative party leaders from six northeastern states on strengthening the party ahead of the 2014 general elections.

"There were some common issues of the region... political situation in each state was discussed besides issues related...

Lucknow: Urban Development minister Azam Khan always remains in controversy for different reasons. Whatever he says and whatever he does triggers protests and furore. In a similar incident the minister has been alleged to have given fallacious reply while answering to a question in the House.

MLC Manoj Kumar Singh has sought action from Azam over the issue of traffic hazards leading to...

New Delhi: After Congress, the government on Sunday said that Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde had not apologised for linking the BJP and the RSS with terrorism but only expressed regret, which the opposition party had accepted.

"Well, it is regret. That is the word that has been used," said Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath.

After Shinde expressed regret on Wednesday over his...

Kohima: Voters were still lined up at many polling booths across Nagaland at the scheduled end of voting at 4 pm as the state recorded a heavy turnout in the assembly elections on Sunday, officials said. Polling was peaceful.

Polling was held for the 59 of the 60 assembly constituencies in Nagaland, with the The election to Tuensang Sadar I countermanded after Congress candidate P. Chuba Chang...

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday slammed the former Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government for unemployment during its regime in the state.

The chief minister attacked BSP for not creating employment opportunities as well as rampant corruption following which some of its ministers were later detained. He asked that had the previous government worked on creating...

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)on Friday demanded that question hour should be suspended in both houses to discuss the Hyderabad terror attack.

"We have asked for suspension of question hour and demanded discussion on the terror issue," BJP leader Prakash Javadekar told reporters outside parliament.

He said that the country was united at this hour and party president Rajnath...