The oath-taking ceremony of the newly-elected MLAs started at a brisk pace as Pro Tem Speaker Kalidas N. Kolambkar on Wednesday started administering their oaths inside the Vidhan Bhavan, here on Wednesday. ....

Maharashtra Chief Minister-designate Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday called on Governor B.S. Koshyari at the Raj Bhavan. ....

India on Wednesday successfully placed into orbit its own earth observation satellite Cartosat-3 and 13 American nano satellites in a text book style. ....

Over three months after the Centre abrogated Article 370 in J&K, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), here on Tuesday, said it had seized Rs 6.20 crore assets of Zahoor Ahmed Shah Watali, a prominent Kashmiri businessman, in connection with a terror-funding probe involving Lashkar-e-Taiba founder and Jammat-Ud-Dawa terrorist Hafiz Muhammad Sayeed. ....

Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray late on Tuesday staked his claim to form the government in Maharashtra before Governor B.S. Koshyari, party sources said. ....

The Sena-NCP-Congress government, set to take power on Thursday, will have to take steps to check the widening revenue deficit of India's second most politically important state. ....

In a major political defeat for the Bharatiya Janata Party, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday quit, hours after Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar also submitted his resignation, barely 80 hours after they were sworn in on Nov. 23 early morning. ....

To pacify the agitating students of its varsity, the Jawaharlal Nehru University administration on Tuesday announced concession in service and utility charges. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday urged citizens to think of how they can fulfil the duties enshrined in the Constitution, including by saving water and paying taxes. ....

Terming the arrival of activist Trupti Desai in Kerala for a visit to the Sabarimala temple as a conspiracy, State Minister Kadakampally Surendran has said that certain vested interests are behind her visit. ....

The Supreme Court on Tuesday passed an interim order to conduct a floor test in the Maharashtra Assembly on Wednesday after considering the competing claims of the parties. ....

A World War II museum would soon be opened here, the district headquarters of East Siang in Arunachal Pradesh, Chief Minister Pema Khandu announced on Monday. ....

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate for the Karimpur Assembly by-election in Bengal Jay Prakash Majumdar was assaulted allegedly by Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers during the voting, on Monday. ....

The West Bengal government on Monday decided to regularise all refugees colonies in the state, thus paving the way for the inhabitants to get the title deeds for their land. ....

In an unprecedented action in Indian politics, the Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-Congress combine on Monday organised a public parade of their 162 supporting MLAs in a bid to disprove the claims of 170 legislators made by the Bharatiya Janata Party and its ally Ajit Pawar. ....

Senior Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia's name trended on Twitter on Monday after he removed his party's name from his bio-data. ....

The Supreme Court on Monday gave a breather to the BJP-Ajit Pawar government in Maharashtra as it reserved its order on Governor B.S. Koshyari's decision to invite the BJP to form a government in the state for Tuesday. ....

In a pre-emptive move to avoid another spell of President's Rule, the Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-Congress' 'Maha Vikas Aghadi' on Monday morning staked its claim to form the government in Maharashtra, a party office-bearer said. ....

Attacking the BJP for not giving importance to the farmers in Maharashtra, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi on Monday said the BJP is defying the institutions and constitution in the state, and questioned if the party is "abducting" the public mandate. ....

In twists and turns of Maharashtra's post-election politics, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik on Sunday sought resignation of the BJP-led Devendra Fadnavis government in the state claiming the opposition lacks support of required MLAs and asserted that all MLAs of NCP are in touch with the party. ....