AHMEDABAD: In a setback for Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in his hope to get back the Parliament membership, the Gujarat high court on Friday rejected his plea seeking a stay on his conviction in a criminal defamation case over his Modi surname remark. The HC called for the need for purity in politics and said … Read more
SHIMLA/KULLU: BJP president JP Nadda on Monday attacked Congress, saying it’s a ‘dynastic party of maa, beta and beti’ which had “zero ideology and was ready to make any compromise to grab power”.Comparing the “cadre-based BJP” with the “family-oriented non-BJP parties”, Nadda said at a rally in Kangra’s Nurpur: “There is no party in which … Read more
MYSURU: India has the most uncontrollable press, said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday in response to a question about the low ranking of India on the press index.During the interactive session on the Foreign Policy of the Modi Government, Jaishankar said, “I was amazed at our number. I thought we had the most … Read more
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that the multi-state Bharat Jodo Yatra has been “deepest and most beautiful experience” of his life on the eve of the culmination of the Kanyakumari to Srinagar march on Sunday.“Bharat Jodo Yatra received a great response in the country. We saw the resilience and strength of the people … Read more
NEW DELHI: Weighing in for the first time on the debate that the coming non-Gandhi president in Congress would be a proxy for the Gandhi family, Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said both Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor are persons of stature and understanding, and neither can be a “remote controlled” leader of the party. Rahul’s … Read more
KANYAKUMARI: In the backdrop of leaders quitting the Congress and criticising it recently, Rahul Gandhi on Friday said it is easier for many of them to make peace with the BJP and “fold hands” before it but his character is to fight for a certain idea of India. The former Congress chief also said the … Read more
NEW DELHI: The election to the Congress president’s post is getting mired in one controversy or the other with each passing day. In the latest row, senior party leaders have questioned the constitutionality of the voters’ list. After veteran Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad’s resignation on August 26 and the continuous frontal attack on party … Read more
NEW DELHI: The top Congress leadership on Monday met at the party’s headquarters in the national capital to chalk out the modalities and agenda of its “Chintan Shivir” (brainstorming session) to be held in Rajasthan’s Udaipur from May 13 to 15. Congress president Sonia Gandhi and several other senior leaders attended the meeting of the … Read more
PUNE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday called for reducing “slavery to foreign goods” even as Indians celebrate 75 years of Independence. Inaugurating the Jain International Trade Organisation`s `JITO Connect 2022 business meet via video link, Modi said the stress should be on the ‘vocal for local’ mantra and reducing the use of foreign goods. … Read more
NEW DELHI: A row has erupted over an undated video doing the rounds on Twitter which shows Congress leader Rahul Gandhi partying at a nightclub reportedly in Nepal’s Kathmandu. Several BJP leaders on Tuesday shared the video on Twitter and slammed the Congress leadership amid communal clashes in Rajasthan where the party is in power. … Read more