Politics

NEW DELHI: Less than 48 hours after Congress Rajya Sabha candidate from Haryana Ajay Maken lost his election, the party leaders feel that he has been “deliberately deflated” to weaken the authority of party chief Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi. Several senior leaders voiced their concern over the defeat of Maken, against Bharatiya […]

NEW DELHI: Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi was admitted to Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital for Covid-related complications on Sunday, the party said. Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said, “Congress President Sonia Gandhi was admitted to Ganga Ram Hospital today owing to Covid-related issues. She is stable and will be kept at the hospital for […]

NEW DELHI: Bengal continued to simmer for the third day as a series of fresh protests erupted in parts of the state on Saturday. The state is witnessing protests since Thursday over the alleged controversial remarks of now suspended former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Nupur Sharma and former Delhi BJP media head Naveen Kumar […]

  NEW DELHI: Stepping up his attack on the Kerala government, Union minister V Muraleedharan on Saturday called chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan “a disgrace” for his alleged involvement in the gold smuggling case and demanded his resignation. Reacting to the state government’s decision to step up the personal security of the chief minister, Muraleedharan, a […]

  SHIMLA: BJP workers in poll-bound Himachal Pradesh are humming a new slogan these days: ‘Is bar sakar nahi, riwaz badlenge (this time we will change the tradition of governments not repeating)’. With this resolve in mind, the Jai Ram Thakur government has gone on a spree to announce jobs, new schemes, and administration offices […]