Author: Anand Singh

  NEW DELHI: A day after election strategist Prashant Kishor declined its membership offer, the Congress on Wednesday said that “our doors and windows are open for anyone keen to join us”. Addressing a press conference here, Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said that the Grand Old Party is in process of making necessary changes to

  NEW DELHI: Opposition parties on Wednesday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his call to reduce Value Added Tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel by states and sought an account of Rs 26 lakh crore collected by the Centre as tax when crude oil price was at lowest in the last eight years. During

  New Delhi: More troubles brewing for former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filing three preliminary enquiry (PE) against him and several others to probe allegations of extortion and criminal misconduct. “The agency has registered three PEs against Singh, Jitendra Navlani, another Mumbai Police officer Pradeep Sharma, who

  CHANDIGARH/NEW DELHI: Hours after Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann signed a knowledge sharing agreement with the Delhi government, Congress on Tuesday roasted the state government describing the agreement as an ‘instrument of surrender’. The remarks came soon after Mann and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced that a Knowledge Sharing Agreement has been signed

  NEW DELHI: In declining Congress’ offer to join the party, Prashant Kishor held out the mirror as he said that more than him, Congress needs leadership and collective will to fix “deep-rooted structural problems”. “I declined the generous offer of Congress to join the party as part of the EAG (Empowered Action Group) and

  NEW DELHI: Putting an end to all speculations, the Congress party on Tuesday said that the poll strategist Prashant Kishor has “declined” its offer to join the party.   The development came a day after Congress announced to constitute an Empowered Action Group-2024 to address the political challenges it is facing.   “Following a

  NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is carrying out searches at over 26 locations across the country in connection with the Rs 22,842 crore ABG Shipyard case, sources said on Tuesday. An ED source related to the probe told The New Indian, that the financial probe agency is conducting searches in Mumbai, Pune and Surat

  NEW DELHI: A day after Samajwadi Party MLA Azam Khan, who is currently in prison “snubbed” to meet his party MLA, met Congress leader and spiritual guru Acharya Pramod Krishnam in Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur district jail on Monday. After his meeting with Khan, Krishnam said that putting the senior Samajwadi Party leader in prison

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday said that it is forming an Empowered Action Group (EAG) to prepare for the Lok Sabha elections 2024 and to address the political challenges that the party is facing. The party, however, avoided answering any queries on the induction of poll strategist Prashant Kishor into the Grand Old Party. The

  NEW DELHI: Embattled Congress to hold a three-day ‘Nav Sankalp Chintan Shivir’ in Udaipur to discuss the poll debacles in five states earlier this year and to prepare for the forthcoming elections with the main focus on the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Speaking to the media here today, Congress general secretary and national spokesperson