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NATO has right to deploy in eastern Europe, says deputy secretary general
Moscow itself has 'voided of any content' the NATO-Russia Founding Act, by attacking Ukraine and halting dialogue with the alliance

Goa polls: No tie-up with NCP-Shiv Sena, but will remain friends, says Chidambaram
After the elections, the Congress would continue to explore opportunities to 'work together' with them, says the senior leader

I believe Shiv Sena wasted 25 years in alliance with BJP, never used Hindutva for power, says Uddhav
The Sena fell out with BJP after the 2019 Maharashtra polls and tied up with NCP and Congress to form the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government.

UP polls: No possibility of alliance with Congress, says RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary
Chaudhary said that his party’s alliance with the Samajwadi Party (SP) was in the final stage

Mayawati quashes reports of tie-up with AIMIM, says BSP will go solo in UP, Uttarakhand polls
BSP general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Satish Chandra Misra has been made the national co-ordinator of the party's media cell, Mayawati said

IPFT claims BJP workers attacked 'over 100' of its members in Tripura; saffron party says it 'doesn't believe in politics of violence'
The IPFT alleged that BJP workers were attacking its supporters after the Lok Sabha election. IPFT spokesperson Mangal Debbarma said the party will have to think of 'alternative ways' if the attacks continue. BJP spokesperson Ashok Sinha denied the allegations.

Wary Nitish digs in for the battle of 2020
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar wants to pre-empt any attempt by his alliance partner BJP, fresh from its Lok Sabha triumph, to execute a plan for a JD(U)-mukt Bihar

SpiceJet inducts Boeing 737 taking fleet size up to 100; fourth domestic airline to do so
SpiceJet is the fourth domestic airline to achieve the feat after national carrier Air India, now defunct Jet Airways and rival IndiGo

Operations at Shirdi airport likely to resume today after SpiceJet flight overshoots runway
SpiceJet has already grounded both the pilots pending an internal enquiry, while the DGCA is conducting the initial probe into the incident

A misfiring corruption campaign and messy alliance strategy: BJP is glad to have Congress as its chief adversary
Congress has been finding myriad ways of undermining its own chances and boosting that of the BJP in the Lok Sabha Election 2019

Shunned by regional satraps, Congress woos young leaders like Chandrashekhar Azad to regain ground
A successful entry into the Uttar Pradesh’s political game, via Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad, may give Congress a formula that it could execute to good effect in other states

Should the Congress play from back foot to beat BJP?
The Congress' predicament is that it must improve its abysmal 44-seat Lok Sabha tally to about 120-130 if it wants to head any coalition government

Salman Khurshid says Congress' willingness to form alliance in Uttar Pradesh shouldn't be seen as its weakness
Congress leader Salman Khurshid also criticised the bill seeking to accord Indian citizenship to certain minority community refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan which was passed by the Lok Sabha on Tuesday and said that there must be a uniform law for all.

Tamil Nadu BJP chief says party confident of winning 'considerable seats' in state in Lok Sabha election
BJP had not yet started the process on forming alliances or the elections and a decision would be taken at the appropriate time, Tamilisai Soundararajan said.

Forming alliances won't affect Congress' interests, Rahul Gandhi assures party workers in Bihar
Rahul Gandhi asserted that top priority be accorded to strengthening the Congress unit in the state.

JD(U), LJP may quit NDA in Bihar over dilution of SC/ST Act, says senior Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil
Such a development is most likely in Bihar, where all the NDA constituents — JD(U), LJP and RLSP — primarily draw their support from people belonging to the SC/ST and OBC categories, Gohil said

Arun Jaitley should rather look into BJP's 'unholy alliances' with incompatible allies, says Dinesh Gundu Rao after FM targets Congress-JD(S) coalition
KPCC President Dinesh Gundu Rao on Monday said that Union Minister Minister Arun Jaitley should look into BJP's efforts to strike 'unholy alliances' with incompatible allies before calling the Congress-JDS alliance in Karnataka as 'opportunist.'

Trinamool Congress or CPM? West Bengal Congress leaders opposed over alliance partners to fight BJP in 2019 polls
Ahead of its crucial meeting with party president Rahul Gandhi on Friday, the Congress in West Bengal seems to be torn between two sections of leaders, one that is keen on a tie-up with the Trinamool Congress and the other with the CPM.

Congress, NCP to fight Maharashtra Legislative Council elections together; to contest on three seats each
The Congress and the NCP arrived at a seat-sharing agreement on Thursday for the 21 May Maharashtra Legislative Council elections with both the parties deciding to contest three seats each

Mayawati says BSP will not support anyone for Kairana, Noorpur bypolls; to focus on rebuilding party machinery first
The BSP, which enabled the success of Samajwadi Party (SP) candidates in the Phulpur and Gorakhpur parliamentary bypolls by successfully transferring its votes to them, will in future not play such an "active role