CHENNAI (TIP): AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa’s widely expected swearing-in as chief minister has reportedly been delayed over a possible appeal by Karnataka against her acquittal in a corruption case on May 11 and a […]

NEW DELHI (TIP):  The government agreed to convene an all-party meeting to discuss its proposal to give NRIs the right to exercise their franchise by e-postal ballots or through proxy voting. Law Minister DV Sadananda Gowda […]

NEW DELHI (TIP): In an effort to make best use of the “golden opportunity” that the party has, with a majority government at the Centre to showcase, BJP chief Amit Shah has been holding meetings […]

NEW DELHI (TIP): The government is working to get the contentious land acquisition bill passed in Lok Sabha next week, but is increasingly wary that defiant opponents and procedural road blocks may come in the […]

NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court ruled on February 5 that a lawmaker’s election could be cancelled if he or she suppressed information about a criminal record, in what experts see as a landmark judgement […]

NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court on December 18extended by four months the bail of former Tamil Naduchief minister J Jayalalithaa in a disproportionate assetscase and asked the chief justice of Karnataka high courtto constitute […]

Urges apex court to grant urgent hearing after High Court had refused her earlier bail plea NEW DELHI (TIP): Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha, denied bail by Karnataka High Court following her conviction […]

BANGALORE (TIP): Holding that it was AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa who had paid for the arrangements for the lavish marriage of her now estranged foster son V N Sudhakaran, the special court in the disproportionate assets […]

NEW DELHI (TIP): Giving in to opposition pressure, the government on August 14 referred the controversial Insurance Bill to the select committee of Rajya Sabha. The House adopted a motion in this regard after finance […]

NEW DELHI (TIP): AIADMK leader Muniswamy Thambidurai was on August 13 unanimously elected Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha, a post he had held 29 years ago as a first-term member. Life also came a […]

CHENNAI (TIP): Blazing a trail, the ruling AIADMK scored an emphatic victory in the Lok Sabha election in Tamil Nadu, winning 37 of the 39 seats on its own. The sterling performance has put the […]

KOLKATA (TIP):West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress put up a spectacular show, sweeping the Lok Sabha polls in the state to emerge as the fourth-largest party in the new Lok Sabha, while the BJP signalled its […]

NEW DELHI (TIP): The Congress and UPA are facing decimation in a wide swathe of states from Delhi and Rajasthan in the north to Bihar and Jharkhand in the east, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh in […]

NEW DELHI (TIP): The BJP and NDA will gain handsomely across several states in the north, west, east and south of India, while the Congress and UPA will face major losses in these states, according […]

NEW DELHI (TIP): Smarting under Jayalalithaa’s snub over the request for two seats each to CPI and CPM, the top Left leaders on Thursday attributed it to the Tamil Nadu chief minister’s confidence that the […]

NEW DELHI (TIP): The BJP could reach its highest tally ever and the Congress its lowest point, giving the NDA the best chance of forming the government after the Lok Sabha polls, though well short […]

NEW DELHI (TIP): In a new partnership, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee might be endorsed by anticorruption crusader Anna Hazare as a likely prime ministerial candidate or leader of a non-Congress, non-BJP front. Hazare’s move […]