Congress

NEW DELHI: The Congress will contest the Punjab Assembly elections next year under the leadership of Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi. Former party chief Rahul Gandhi will kickstart the party’s election campaign formally on January 3 from Moga. In fact, contesting elections in Punjab under the leadership of Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi will not […]

CHANDIGARH: Just before the Punjab assembly election early next year, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) bagged 14 seats out of 35 in Chandigarh Municipal Corporation, pushing BJP to second number. AAP won 14 of 35 municipal seats, with the BJP close behind at 12 seats. The Congress won eight seats and the Akali Dal stayed […]

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police on Monday detained several doctors who were protesting against the delay in the NEET 2021 counselling. Doctors claimed that they were brutally thrashed and manhandled while holding a peaceful march towards the Supreme Court and threatened to shut down all healthcare institutions in Delhi. The protest was organised by the […]

NEW DELHI: If pre-poll surveys are to be believed, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is all set to retain its power in the Hindi heartland in the upcoming assembly polls, scheduled to be held early next year. Jan Ki Baat Opinion Poll has predicted the return of Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government in politically significant Uttar Pradesh. […]

NEW DELHI: Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, who earned the sobriquet Turbanator in 2001 after  a gut-wrenching performance in one of the most keenly fought India-Australia Test series where he scalped 32 wickets, has announced retirement from all forms of cricket.  He played 103 Tests, 236 ODIs and 28 T20Is for India and picked up 417, […]

NEW DELHI: Amid infighting in Uttarakhand Congress, former Chief Minister Harish Rawat and AICC in-charge for the state Devender Yadav on Friday met former party chief Rahul Gandhi at his residence. The two leaders were called for a meeting with the senior leadership after Rawat on Wednesday sent out cryptic tweets over the handling of […]

LUCKNOW: At a time when former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Akhilesh Yadav — who had kicked a storm when he said that he would not take vaccine until government puts a national flag on certificate and that many were testing positive even after taking both jabs — is out in […]

CHANDIGARH/NEW DELHI:  Eight years after the then wrestler-turned-druglord Jagdish Bhola, who was arrested in a Rs 6500-crore synthetic drug scam, had accused Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Badal’s brother-in-law Bikram Majithia of him as a kingpin leading to the summons served by ED on him, Punjab Police has booked the key Akali Dal man on […]

CHANDIGARH: In a major development on Monday, a senior Congress leader and minister for Technical Education Rana Gurjeet Singh lashed out at Punjab Congress committee president Navjot Singh Sidhu for trying to create divisions within the party and questioning the loyalty of the true and traditional Congressmen. Rana took a dig at Sidhu’s flip-flops in […]

AMETHI: Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Saturday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi from his home turf of Amethi which he lost to BJP’s Smriti Irani in 2019 Lok Sabha elections and said that every lane of the city is still the same but there is anger against the government. Rahul Gandhi arrived in Amethi […]