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: Following a massive debacle in recently-held assembly polls in five states, Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday asked state unit chiefs of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur to step down. “Congress President Sonia Gandhi has asked the PCC Presidents of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur to put […]
NEW DELHI: The drubbing in the recently concluded assembly elections in the five states to the Congress has once again brought focus on the G-23 leaders, who two years ago wrote to party chief Sonia Gandhi demanding an active leadership. A meeting of the CWC, considered to be the highest decision making body of the […]
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: Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav, who was set to address a press conference in Muzaffarnagar along with alliance partner Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Jayant Chaudhary on Friday alleged that his helicopter was not allowed to take off from Delhi whereas another chopper carrying BJP leader […]
KAIRANA (UTTAR PRADESH): On Monday, Samajwadi Party (SP) nominated Nahid Hasan as their candidate from Kairana for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. The sitting MLA from this constituency, Nahid was arrested by the UP Police under Gangster Act on January 16. SP’s decision to give him a ticket to contest the poll has drawn […]
MUZAFFARNAGAR (UTTAR PRADESH):In Muzaffarnagar city in the upper Ganga-Yamuna Doab region of Uttar Pradesh, reside the Tikaits. A family known to speak up and lead the cause for the farming community that they belong to, they are not new to the politics of the state. The New Indian team travels from Delhi to speak to […]
NEW DELHI: Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and Congress General secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday launched the manifesto favouring the youth of Uttar Pradesh with a promise of employment to 20 lakh youth and setting up of a world level cricket academy. While launching a booklet, titled ‘Bharti Vidhan’, for Uttar Pradesh ahead of assembly […]
MATHURA/VRINDAVAN: Ambling into the winding lanes of Chowk Bazar in Mathura — the land of Krishna Janmbhoomi — the team of The New Indian reaches the factory where aroma of boiling milk, saffron, cardamom greets with hundreds of halwais squatted before the flames. In a few hours, as milk turns into khoya, which further becomes […]
RAE BARELI: As Congress MLA from Rae Bareli Aditi Singh resigned from her membership today, political analysts watching the state elections sounded their concern on the way Congress appears to be handling the party so close to the elections. At this rate, the grand old party would not be able to win a single seat […]