The two day Punjab state youth festival organized by department of youth services, Govt of Punjab concluded today at the campus of Chandigarh university Gharuan with power packed performances by the youth of Punjab. More than twenty three thousand students...

A week after the Lok Sabha results pinned the Congress down to its worst performance in Uttar Pradesh, the party will take stock of the situation and discuss reasons or its poor performance in the Lok Sabha elections.A meeting of party office bearers will...

Congress President Rahul Gandhi and party general secretaries Priyanka Gandhi and Jyotiraditya Scindia on Monday launched a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a road show in Agra.Addressing the gathering in Jarar...

The Congress on Sunday announced it will not contest seven Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh to return the favour of the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) alliance, which has left two seats for the party in...

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was cheered by thousands as she rode in an open truck here on Monday along with her brother and Congress President Rahul Gandhi on her first visit to Uttar Pradesh after becoming the Congress General Secretary East UP ahead of the Lok Sabha...

Snubbed by the SP and BSP who have joined hands in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress on Sunday said it will contest all the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state but insisted that its doors were open for secular parties willing to defeat the BJP.A day after arch rivals...

Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Raj Babbar on Wednesday said the electoral reverses suffered by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Assembly polls signalled that the ruling party's end had begun."This is the beginning of the end for the BJP as the people have...

The Congress on Thursday accused the Modi government of indulging in "gimmicks" by announcing the NDA MPs will not take salaries for 23 days the Parliament post-break Budget session was washed out.The opposition party also claimed that the Prevention of...

Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) president Raj Babbar on Monday attacked the state government for non-performance and said Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was "not a sadhu but a swadu (materialist)".Addressing an event in Gorakhpur to mark the birth...

The Congress and BJP in Uttar Pradesh sparred over BJP chief Amit Shah's son's alleged dramatic rise in business fortunes, with the Congress terming it part of the BJP's "new beta (son) model", and the party in turn targetting Congress Vice President Rahul...

The Congress on Tuesday declined to comment on BJP MP Varun Gandhi's statement on Rohingya Muslims but sought that not all of them be "treated as terrorists" and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj should speak positive things about them."I don't want...

Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday met some bereaved families of children who died at the Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College last week and expressed his sympathies.Extending his condolences, he told the families that the Congress party was with...

Equating the killing of five Madhya Pradesh farmers with Mahatma Gandhi's assassination, the Congress on Wednesday flayed BJP chief Amit Shah's comment on the Father of the Nation and said the BJP was trying to "deconstruct" his image, ideology and thinking.The...

In an effort to woo the women voters, the Congress in its manifesto for the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls released here on Wednesday announced 50 per cent reservation for the fairer sex in urban and rural local bodies.Besides women, the manifesto also targeted...

The Congress party on Wednesday released its manifesto here for the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls and announced 50 per cent reservation for women.Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) President Raj Babbar releasing the poll-related document that focuses...

Claiming that he was "unaware" of any parleys on an alliance between the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, UPCC chief Raj Babbar on Friday said there will be "no alliance at the cost of honour and respect of...

Former Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Badshah Singh on Friday joined the Congress.He was admitted to the party in the presence of Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Raj Babbar.Singh lost the assembly polls in 2012 from Mahoba when he contested as a BJP candidate....

The Congress on Thursday accused the BJP of "accumulating an army of opportunists" ahead of the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, and added that senior leader Rita Bahuguna Joshi's exit will have no impact on its electoral fortunes."The Bharatiya Janata...

Defending Rahul Gandhi's "khoon ki dalali" remark, UPCC chief Raj Babbar on Monday said it was BJP President Amit Shah who first used the term 'dalali' (brokering), so he should be questioned about it.The actor-turned-politician, however, did not directly name...

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that instead of fulfilling the poll promise of bringing black money back, he has brought schemes to convert that into white."Modiji had said that he has 56-inch...