The AIMIM has emerged as one of the surprise performers in the Maharashtra civic polls, winning 126 corporator seats across 13 corporations in the state and registering strong gains in cities such as Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (formerly Aurangabad) and Malegaon. The results mark a significant recovery for the party after its relatively weak showing in the…

Voting is a constitutional entitlement. But SC interprets it as a right subject to ordinary law New voter rolls are being made in a dozen other states after Election Commission’s SIR exercise in Bihar where many of the nearly 65L – about 8.5% of the electorate – whose names were excluded from the new voter…

A three-time stand-in Chief Minister who once refused to sit in Jayalalithaa’s chair and later lost his party, position, and much of his political capital after revolting against the AIADMK leadership, O Panneerselvam resurfaced on Friday, making an unlikely embrace. At the DMK headquarters of Anna Arivalayam in Chennai, Panneerselvam, OPS to friends and rivals,…