Rahul Gandhi offered to resign as Congress Prez, CWC rejected
NEW DELHI : Top Congress leaders from across the country got together to review the party’s drubbing in the Lok Sabha polls, as the Congress Working Committee meeting got underway in New Delhi. According to sources, Rahul Gandhi offered to resign at the meeting. However, Randeep Surjewala dismissed the “rumors” and said the information More...
Before results, BJP hosts ‘thanksgiving’ parties for alliance partners
NEW DELHI : Prime Minister and BJP President host meetings with Cabinet and throw a dinner party for alliance partners even before the election results. The ruling BJP was in a celebratory mood on Tuesday with the More...
Congress is set for a resounding defeat in Rajasthan, MP and Chhattisgarh
NEW DELHI : The Congress is set for a resounding defeat in the three heartland states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh that it wrested from the BJP barely six months ago. In all three states, the party More...
After Rahuli, Naidu Meets Akhilesh Yadav, Mayawati
NEW DELHI/ LUCKNOW/ AP :Even before the last vote was polled in the current Lok Sabha election, the two rival Telugu biddas — Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu and his Telangana counterpart K Chandrashekar More...
Violence at Amit Shah’s roadshow; BJP workers, varsity students clash
KOLKATA : Unprecedented chaos erupted at BJP chief Amit Shah’s road show in Kolkata where massive clashes broke out between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers and supporters and students of Calcutta University More...
63.3% Voting for 6th phase of LS elections
NEW DELHI :The EC in a press conference confirms that the average turnout across the constituencies, which went to the polls today, was 63.3 per cent. According to the poll body, 590 fake news cases were also More...
“Mayawati is a national symbol, I respect her, love her: Rahul
NEW DELHI : Congress President Rahul Gandhi has said that among a number of people he learns from is also the Prime Minister of the country, Narendra Modi. In an interview with NDTV’s Ravish Kumar, a smiling More...
Sam Pitroda Apologises For 1984 Remark
MEW DELHI :Attacked by the BJP and warned by his Congress party, Sam Pitroda today apologised for his “hua toh hua” comments on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots which, he said, had been “misrepresented More...
BJP faces rift over Kirron Kher’s nomination
CHANDIGRAH: Kirron Kher had wrested the Chandigarh seat in 2014 from the Congress’s Pawan Bansal, who won it three times in a row. But her nomination this time was announced at the last minute, over-riding More...
PM Narendra Modi Calls AAP “Nakampanthis”, “spread anarchy”
NEW DELHI : PM Narendra Modi’s speech at his big rally in New Delhi touched on familiar themes that we’ve heard throughout his campaign, such as national security and being tough on terrorism. He spent More...