Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday reviewed with Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi the progress in the implementation by his government  on the promised made in the party manifesto for the state.The exercise was part of a meeting...

Sri Anandpur Sahab MP Manish Tewari today visited the flood affected areas of Majri block in the Kharar assembly segment. He was accompanied by senior Congress leader and former Minister Jagmohan Singh Kang and others.Tewari expressed satisfaction over the...

Sri Anandpur Sahab MP Manish Tewari today urged the External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar for setting up a Regional Passport Office at Nawan Shahr to cater to the demands  of a large population in his constituency.Tewari met the minister in New Delhi...

Sri Anandpur Sahab MP Manish Tewari has demanded setting up a Regional Transport Office in Ropar to cater to the needs of the people living in different areas across the parliamentary constituency. He said, right now the RTO Office was located in Mohali...

Two days after the Rajya Sabha passed a bill to amend the Right to Information Act, outgoing Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday took a swipe at the BJP-led NDA government, saying it was diluting the Act to help the corrupt steal."Government is diluting...

Senior Congress leader and Sri Anandpur Sahib MP, Manish Tewari today alleged that the Bhartiya Janata Party led National Democratic Alliance government appeared to be planning to turn the country into a “police state”.Interacting with reporters during the...

Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has assured necessary action on the completion of the Banga-Garhshankar-Sri Anandpur Sahib-Naina Devi Road  which falls in his parliamentary constituency. Following up the matter with the union...

Former President Pranab Mukherjee said here on Wednesday that Indian education system needs to re-oriented for the students to become "risk-takers and innovation makers" and take the nation ahead."In every sphere of our lives, the influence of science and technology...

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur said that the sale and consumption of narcotics is not a state specific but a national problem and there is need to formulate a joint strategy and implement it effectively to check the drug menace.He was addressing the second...

Expressing concern over the spread of narco terrorism by Pakistan through various states, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday proposed joint operations on the inter-state borders, as part of a series of collaborative measures to tackle the...

Congress Parliamentary Party Chairman Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday slammed the Centre over the Bill that seeks to amend the Right to Information (RTI) Act 2005 saying the government sees RTI Act as a nuisance and wants to destroy the independence of the Chief Information...

As Rahul Gandhi and other senior Congress leaders took on Narendra Modi on US President Donald Trump's claim that the Indian Prime Minister had sought his mediation on Jammu and Kashmir, the party appeared divided with Lok Sabha member from Thiruvananthapuram...

Continuing its tirade over US President Donald Trump's claim that Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked him to mediate in the Kashmir dispute with Pakistan, the Congress on Tuesday dared Modi to wake up and call the latter's bluff."Now, 'Whitehouse' puts up POTUS'...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday accused the BJP-led Central government of trying to prevent Trinamool Congress supporters from coming to its 'Matryrs' Day' rally by cancelling several trains to Kolkata.She also charged the saffron party...

Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker Rana KP Singh and Sri Anandpur Sahib MP Manish Tewari took stock of the situation in the Bakhra dam in view of the monsoon season, at a meeting with the senior members of the Bhakra Beas Management...

Veteran Congress leader and former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, whose contribution to transforming Delhi was acknowledged by party colleagues and political adversaries alike, passed away on Saturday following cardiac...

Outgoing Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused Uttar Pradesh's Yogi Adityanath government of trying to suppress democracy by cutting the electricity and water supply at the Chunar guest house, where his sister...

In a bid to put the BJP in the dock over her detention, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday asked if it was a crime to wipe the tears of the families of victims of the Sonebhadra carnage."Is it a crime to wipe the tears of these...

Veteran Congress leader and former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit passed away on Saturday at a private hospital here following cardiac arrest. She was 81.According to the Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, Dikshit, who was Chief Minister for three consecutive...

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi remained in detention here on Friday, eight hours after she was driven to a guest house after she insisted on proceeding to Sonebhadra district in Uttar Pradesh where 10 people were killed in clashes over a land dispute...

The Punjab government has offered Rs 10 crores for the drainage and repairing of roads in the Chanalon industrial focal point located near Kurali in the Kharar assembly segment.Disclosing this here today, local MP Manish Tewari said, on Saturday he, accompanied...

Shri Anandpur Sahib parliamentary constituency is all set to be developed as a religious, historical and adventure tourist hub.A high level meeting for the purpose was held in Chandigarh on Friday, which was attended among others by the Punjab Vidhan Sabha...

Various wings of the Congress in Goa on Saturday held a silent protest at state capital's Azad maidan, accusing the BJP-led government of murdering democracy by engineering a split in the state party and inducting 10 MLAs into the ruling party.Speaking to reporters,...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday arrived here in connection with a defamation case related to the Ahmedabad District Cooperative Bank, saying he was happy the BJP  and RSS gave him a platform to take his ideological battle to the public."I'm in Ahmedabad...

Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Anand Sharma on Thursday staged a protest in Parliament against the government over the political crisis in Goa and Karnataka where many of its MLAs have resigned.The protest took place in front of Mahatma Gandhi's...

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday made an impassioned appeal to the people that he would never sever his ties with Amethi, the consituency he lost to BJP's Smriti Irani in the recent Lok Sabha elections."My relationship with Amethi is personal and not political....

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackrey on Monday met UPA Chairperson and senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi here.According to Congress leaders, Thackrey met Gandhi at her residence here and their meeting lasted for over 30 minutes.Party leaders described...

A day after BJP MP Ram Shankar Katheria's bodyguard was booked for beating up a toll plaza staff in Uttar Pradesh's Agra, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday took a swipe at the BJP government for not taking action against its lawless...

Amid indications that he may quit politics, former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat, who recently resigned as General Secretary of the Congress, on Sunday said he has played his inning and would decide his next course of action after meeting party...

Congress leader and MP Rahul Gandhi on Saturday shocked the visitors at a restaurant in Patna when he suddenly arrived there to have dosa and coffee. He was in the city to attend the hearing in a defamation case.After attending the hearing at the Patna Civil...

The Congress on Saturday hit out at the BJP over the resignations of 11 MLAs of the ruling coalition in Karnataka, alleging that the Central government was "orchestrating the defections".Addressing reporters after the meeting of senior party leaders here...

The Congress on Friday dubbed the first Union Budget of the Modi 2.0 government as "insipid and opaque", saying it had not revealed any financial data or allocations, had no relief for various sections of people, or mentioned measures to help farmers.Addressing...

Rahul Gandhi announced on Wednesday that he has resigned as the Congress President and that he was to blame for the party's rout in the Lok Sabha elections where it could  win only 52 of the 542 seats.In an open letter made public on his Twitter account,...

UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday accused the Modi government of planning to privatize six rail production units, saying this is a "first attempt" to hand over the country's priceless assets to private hands cheaply leaving thousands unemployed.Soon...

Chinese short video-making app TikTok on Tuesday refuted Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's claim that it was illegally collecting data and sending it to China.Speaking in the Lok Sabha during the Zero Hour on Monday, Tharoor said there were reports that the Chinese...

Amid the row broke over Alwar lynch mob victim Pehlu Khan being named in a charge sheet, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday sought to clarify that the killed dairy farmer was not charged by his government.Stressing that his Congress is "ideologically...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday met former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at his residence ahead of presenting her maiden Budget on July 5.Singh, who is known as the architect of economic reforms, was also the Finance Minister of the country from...

Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad here on Monday slammed the central government for spending over 50 per cent of the total funds of the 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' and the 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' schemes on publicity.Speaking at the Motion of Thanks on President...

Hours after Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) Deputy Governor Viral Acharya quit, the Congress slammed the Modi government saying the government changes but issues of manhandling remain.Acharya is the third top official to quit RBI before completing their term....

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said that he will not participate in the process of electing a new chief for the country's oldest political party.Speaking to media persons in Parliament, Gandhi said: "I will not participate in the process of electing...

Maverick, aggressive, and controversial, five-time MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has for long been considered the strongman of West Bengal's Murshidabad district, where he kept the Congress flag flying for decades, and won against all odds from Baharampur in the recent...

 United Progressive Alliance Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday chaired a meeting of leaders of constituent parties and other allies to discuss their floor plan during the Budget Session.The meeting was attended by Congress President Rahul Gandhi, newly-nominated...

Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was on Tuesday named as leader of Congress in Lok Sabha by UPA Chairperson and Congress Parliamentary Party chief Sonia Gandhi.According to top Congress sources, the letter nominating Chowdhury, an MP from West...

The Congress on Tuesday responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's advice to the Opposition, saying his words were most of the time not implemented by his own party leaders.Stressing on the importance of an active opposition in democracy, Modi on Monday...

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Saturday emphasised on taking strong initiatives for reviving the rural economy in the country.During the fifth meeting of NITI Aayog here, Baghel said that his state's newly- implemented scheme, 'Narwa, Garuwa, Ghurwa,...

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot met Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday and requested the central government to approve the proposals for several drinking water projects and the timely release of funds for the centrally-sponsored schemes.According...

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday met Congress Chief Ministers and discussed issues to be taken up at the meeting of the governing council of Niti Aayog later in the day.The meeting, held at the party office, was attended by the Chief Ministers...

AICC General Secretary in charge of western Uttar Pradesh, Jyotiraditya Scindia, said here on Friday that strengthening the Congress organisational structure was the top priority of the party in UP.He briefly spoke to reporters at the Uttar Pradesh Congress...

Members of the erstwhile core group committee of the Congress met here on Wednesday and discussed the party's preparations for the forthcoming Assembly polls in Haryana, Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Jammu and Kashmir. The meeting was headed by senior Congress...

Congress leaders during the Lok Sabha election results review meeting on Wednesday here demanded that party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra be made the party's chief ministerial candidate for the 2022 assembly elections in the state.United Progressive...

Senior Bengal Congress leader and MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi informing him about the ongoing "cease work" of junior doctors in all hospital across the state and requested his intervention to restore normalcy.Chowdhury...

Congress General Secretary Jyotiraditya Scindia on Tuesday held a meeting here to review the reasons for the party's rout in western Uttar Pradesh in the recent Lok Sabha  election.The meeting was held to discuss the party's dismal performance in 10 UP Lok...

The recently held general election was different from any other held in India in the sense that for this election, the ruling party as well as the opposition were in serious election mode for almost four years before it was held. On the ruling party side,...

With Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress President Rahul Gandhi making simultaneous appearances in Kerala, BJP and Congress cadres heard their leaders in a mood vastly different from the rancour of not-too-distant elections.While Gandhi's three-day...

Congress President Rahul Gandhi said here on Saturday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the Lok Sabha elections by telling lies."Modi won the election by telling lies and spreading hatred. But we will deal with him with truth, love and affection," Gandhi...

Congress President Rahul Gandhi, who was elected to the Lok Sabha from Wayanad constituency in Kerala, arrived here on Friday afternoon as thousands gathered to welcome him, braving heavy rain.Gandhi, who contested from two parliamentary seats in the 2019 Lok...

The Congress on Friday condemned the murder of the son of a RTI activist in Gujarat and accused the BJP government at the Centre over its failure to implement the Whistleblower Protection Act."Condemnable! The son of RTI activist, who opposed the bail of...

Confronted with Rahul Gandhi's obstinacy in not withdrawing his resignation as Congress President, the party has got into the process of refining its model of having multiple working presidents to run the party.After much confabulation and distillation of thought...

 Hours after 12 out of its 18 MLAs in Telangana met the Assembly Speaker requesting a merger with the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), the Congress  on Thursday described the development as a "daylight murder of democracy".Addressing a press conference...

Madhya Pradesh Chief MInister Kamal Nath on Thursday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence in 7, Lok Kalyan Marg here, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said."The Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Kamal Nath called on PM," the PMO tweeted...