Congress

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that the grand old party had reached out to Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati for an alliance ahead of the 2022 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and even offered her the chief minister’s post, but she did not respond. “You must have seen that Mayawati did not fight the […]

NEW DELHI: Cautioning the government against the Chinese aggression along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday said China was applying the same that Russia had done to Ukraine. Speaking to media persons after meeting veteran leader Sharad Yadav at his residence here, Gandhi drew a parallel between Donetsk […]

BIRBHUM: CBI’s Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) on Friday visited the smouldering houses and adjunct area of Birbhum in West Bengal. Eight people were burnt alive on Tuesday following the murder of a local TMC leader in Bagtoi under Rampurhat in Birbhum. An eight-member-team from CFSL of the CBI went to the spot to collect samples […]

  NEW DELHI: The Congress on Tuesday hit out at the BJP-led government over the hike in the prices of petrol and diesel by 80 paise and liquified petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder by Rs 50. Speaking to the media outside the Parliament, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge said: “The government has once […]

  NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: A day after cricketer turned politician Navjot Singh Sidhu resigned as Punjab Congress chief on the directions of party interim chief Sonia Gandhi, he humiliated his party, yet once again, by endorsing Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which decimated his own party in the state in the recently concluded assembly polls. Sidhu congratulated […]

  NEW DELHI: Days after drubbing in assembly elections in five states, Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that global social media companies are being manipulated to set political narratives and urged the government to put an end to the ‘systematic interference’ of Facebook and other social media giants on electoral politics in […]

NEW DELHI: Even as the crucial Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting is underway at the party headquarters here to discuss the poll debacle in Punjab, Goa, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Uttar Pradesh, the grand old party was hit by a controversy last night over the news reports suggesting that party chief Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and  […]

New Delhi: As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the Uttar Pradesh polls, we look at 5 big takeaways from the result that will shape Indian politics in the days to come: 1) The triumph of ‘Rashan’ and ‘Sushasan’ (Ration and Good Governance): During the elections, two biggest factors for the people were law and order […]

MANIPUR: Just as the Exit polls predicted, the ruling BJP appears to be headed for victory in the northeastern hill state of Manipur. Fighting for 20 seats in the Manipur assembly, BJP is currently leading on 19 seats and has won 1 already. The Naga People’s Front (NPF) is leading on 7 seats and INC […]

MAU (UTTAR PRADESH): An international level shooter, Abbas Ansari easily gets lost in people in his assembly constituency that was once represented by his father Mukhtar Ansari, who is sitting inside a prison. Abbas, carrying on the tough countenance of his father, calls people of Mau his family and asks them to vote for change. […]