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NEW DELHI: For all its deliberations at Chintan Shivir, the Congress is once again finding it hard to keep its flock happy. Hours after the Congress announced its candidates’ list for Rajya Sabha, the disgruntled elements in the party made no bones as they took to social media to express their disappointment. Pawan Khera, who […]

  CHAMBI (HIMACHAL PRADESH): “Speak loudly, ‘Jai Shri Ram’. Your voice should reach Amethi to the ears of that ‘Yuvraj’ whose mother during the Congress regime had dictated the lawyers to tell the court that Ram doesn’t exist”. Union minister of women and child development Smriti Irani minced no words as she blew the poll […]

NEW DELHI: Highlighting price rise, unemployment, communal tension and a host of other issues, Congress on Thursday released a report titled ‘8 Saal, 8 Chhal, BJP Sarkar Vifal’ as the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government completed eight years in power. Speaking to the media, party general secretary Ajay Maken said, “The promise of ‘Achche Din’ […]

NEW DELHI: To retire or not to retire! The deliberations are still on but it seems it will be one tough pill for Congress to swallow. Sources in the Grand Old Party told The New Indian that while Congress deliberated and mostly agreed on the contentious issues of ‘One Family, One Post’, no person should […]

NEW DELHI: Troubles mounted for Congress leader Karti P Chidambaram with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) registering a fresh case of money laundering against him. The Member of Parliament is also being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in an alleged visa for bribery case. According to top ED sources related to the probe, […]

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) summoned Congress MP Karti P Chidambaram on Wednesday for questioning in connection with the visa to Chinese nationals. A CBI source said that the agency has asked Karti P Chidambaram for questioning at its headquarters today. Karti was in London for the last few days. The action […]

NEW DELHI: In an indication of reconciliation to G-23 leaders, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday named former Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad and his deputy Anand Sharma as part of a nine-member Political Affairs Group (PAG) nine days after the Nav Sankalp Chintan Shivir in Rajasthan’s Udaipur. Besides […]

NEW DELHI: Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that India’s territorial integrity and national security were non-negotiable and that it was the duty of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to defend the nation. In a tweet, Rahul Gandhi, who is on a six-day trip to the United Kingdom said, “China builds 1st bridge on […]

NEW DELHI: Reiterating Bharatiya Janata Party’s stand against family dominated political parties, its president JP Nadda made a scathing attack on Congress. Addressing a seminar on the threat of Dynastic Political Parties To Democratic Governance’, Nadda said, “Congress is neither national nor Indian and not democratic party anymore and has become a bhai-behen party.” Citing […]

NEW DELHI: Hours after the Supreme Court decided to free former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination of convict AG Perarivalan after a 31-year legal battle, the Congress on Wednesday expressed disappointment and said that it was deeply saddened by the decision of the top court. Congress also questioned the upholding of the ‘integrity of the […]