Jairam Ramesh

NEW DELHI: High-octane drama unfolded in New Delhi after Congress leaders hit the streets over the issue of inflation, unemployment and GST on essential commodities. Several senior party leaders, including Gandhi scion Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, were detained. Congress has given a clarion call to party units to hold protests across […]

In the wake of the heavy police deployment outside Congress headquarters, the grand old party on Wednesday launched a scathing attack at the Centre following the Enforcement Directorate sealing the offices of Young Indian (YI) at the party-owned Herald House in New Delhi.

NEW DELHI: Hours after the Supreme Court upheld Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) powers in money laundering cases, Congress on Wednesday said there are chances that the “political usage” of ED by the Centre will increase after this judgement. In a statement, Congress media in-charge Jairam Ramesh said, “The judgment pronounced by the Supreme Court on the […]

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 […]

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: 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: The Congress on Wednesday condemned what it termed attempts to cast insinuations and innuendos’ against former Vice-President of India Hamid Ansari. While Ansari refuted the reports and the charges as a “litany of falsehood”, Congress slammed the ruling party saying insinuations by its leaders are “character assassination of the worst form”. The strong […]

  NEW DELHI: The national general secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Kailash Vijayvargiya brewed controversy on Sunday when he said he will recruit Agniveers as security guards for the BJP’s offices. “When an Agniveer comes out of the service after four years he will have the tag of an Agniveer which he can […]

NEW DELHI: Ending all speculations, Congress will not nominate Priyanka Gandhi Vadra for Rajya Sabha. The Congress on Sunday released the list of party candidates for Rajya Sabha. The list, announced by Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi, includes the names of former finance minister P Chidambaram, former Union ministers Jairam Ramesh and Ajay Maken among […]

NEW DELHI: Hours after Rajiv Kumar was announced as new chief election commissioner (CEC), the apex poll body on Thursday declared polls for 57 Rajya Sabha seats which will fall vacant during June-August period this year. The elections is crucial for both BJP and regional parties as the saffron party last month become the first […]