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JAIPUR: Dhankhar household in Rajasthan is a divided house. However, the political difference failed to strain the strong ties the Dhankhar brothers share.  NDA’s vice-presidential candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar has been a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) but his brother Randeep Dhankhar owes his allegiance to the Indian National Congress.  “We both are from […]

NEW DELHI: Veteran Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma on Tuesday came out in support of party interim chief Sonia Gandhi as she appeared for the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for the third. Sonia Gandhi earlier appeared before the ED on July 21 and July 26. She has been questioned for over eight and […]

NEW DELHI: Former Congress chief and Lok Sabha MP Rahul Gandhi was detained along with several other party MPs while they were marching from Parliament towards Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday. The Congress lawmakers were protesting over alleged misuse of investigative agencies against opposition parties and demanding a discussion on the issue of price rise, inflation, GST […]

KOLKATA: With Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee finding herself caught in the quagmire over the Enforcement Directorate (ED)’s arrest of her industries minister Partha Chatterjee in the multi-crore SSC recruitment scam, Congress is leaving no opportunity to target the beleaguered TMC supremo. Senior congressman Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, president of the Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee, wrote […]

NEW DELHI: Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for second time in the National Herald money laundering case on Tuesday. On July 21, she was questioned for more than 2.5 hours by the ED. Her daughter and Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was present at the ED office during the […]

NEW DELHI: Union minister Smriti Irani on Saturday called Congress’ allegation that her daughter runs an “illegal bar” as “attempts of character assassination”, saying that she is being targeted by the Gandhi family for defeating Rahul Gandhi in Amethi. “The character assassination of my daughter is being done on the instructions of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi […]

NEW DELHI: Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi will appear before Enforcement Directorate (ED) on July 26 in connection with an alleged money laundering case involving National Herald, officials said on Friday. Gandhi, 75, was questioned for over two and a half hours on Thursday by the financial probe agency in connection with the same case. […]

  NEW DELHI: The Congress on Thursday refuted the reports that its party chief Sonia Gandhi requested the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to end her question as “baseless and lie”. Congress said that she was ready to answer all questions till night and was also ready to join the probe on Friday. In a video statement, […]

NEW DELHI: Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi, on Thursday described her questioning by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) as a “sad day” as she had to visit the agency’s headquarters and said that her honesty is beyond questioning. He also said that the financial probe agency will get nothing out of this […]

NEW DELHI: Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi on Thursday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for the first time in connection with an alleged money laundering case involving National Herald. Congress, meanwhile, slammed the government for misusing the investigative agency and said that the ED should have questioned her at her residence instead of calling […]