Politics

New Delhi: The Congress voted internally on Monday to elect its first non-Gandhi president in nearly two-and-a-half decades, since Sitaram Kesri was at the helm in 1998. Delegates voted in big numbers across the country to choose between…

New Delhi: Shashi Tharoor is calling a spade a spade in the run-up to the Congress presidential election. Considered to be the underdog against Mallikarjun Kharge in the two-horse race, Tharoor has said said time and again that Congress…

New Delhi: Rajendra Pal Gautam, Social Welfare minister of Delhi, resigned from chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s cabinet on Sunday. Gautam had been in the eye of a storm after attending a ‘conversion’ event. A video, which emerged…

Hyderabad: Politicians in India can go to any level in a bid to go one-up on their rivals. In the latest slanging match, Asaduddin Owaisi took on RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s comment on population control by lecturing him about the use of…

New Delhi: Amid reports of Shashi Tharoor withdrawing from the upcoming Congress presidential election, the MP from Thiruvananthapuram clarified on Saturday that he’s not one to withdraw from a challenge. “There are rumours going around -…

Mandya: Gauri Lankesh’s mother Indira and sister Kavitha marched with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during the Karnataka leg of his ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ on Friday. Gauri was assassinated outside her home in Bengaluru’s Rajarajeshwari Nagar…

Patna: Prashant Kishor launched a 3,500 km padayatra in Bihar on Gandhi Jayanti. The poll strategist started his foot march from Gandhi Ashram in West Champaran’s Bhitiharwa, where Mahatma Gandhi had launched his first satyagraha movement…

New Delhi: Many in India followed the British Conservative Party leadership race between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss recently. Especially the open debates between the candidates on television. If Congress president election candidate Shashi…

Gurugram: Samajwadi Party founder and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav has been rushed to a private hospital on Sunday. The 82-year-old veteran politician’s health deteriorated and his condition was critical. He is…

New Delhi: The battle lines are drawn in the election for Congress president – it’s Shashi Tharoor versus Mallikarjun Kharge. Tharoor made the choice clear for Congress members, who will vote on October 17. “All I am telling the members…