Pawar-led party has highest number of offences registered against political outfits during recent elections; Congress ranks second The Congress-NCP combine managed to top at least one poll-related list – the one relating to the number of offences...

It has hinted that if the Congress bargains too hard and demands too large a power share, the NCP could 'tap other options' and ask other parties to help it reach a majority. On Monday NCP president Sharad Pawar convened a meeting of top state leaders...

Minister Sharad Pawar confers IARI's honorary doctorate of science on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the Golden Jubilee Convocation of the Indian Agriculture Research Institute in New Delhi on Monday. Mos Harish Rawat and agriculture scientist M.S....

Pawar's remarks after a meeting with state party leaders were significant as they signalled that NCP did not want Congress to align with other parties or Independents in a few local bodies at its cost. He said NCP would help Congress where it has more...

Delhi: NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Monday expressed readiness to do business with Congress to capture as many city and district councils in Maharashtra as possible and wanted both the parties to act unitedly where they lacked majority. Pawar's remarks...

"We will be happy if Congress does well in Uttar Pradesh," Pawar said. His remarks came when asked whether Congress would be worried due to better performance by his party in Maharashtra local body polls. Congress shares power with the NCP in...