SP talks not the only issue Cong is blissfully sitting on

Friday 9 January '09

The Samajwadi Party’s unilateral decision to announce candidates for 29 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh...

Cong rift again wide open, Chavan bats for Rane

Thursday 8 January '09

Barely four weeks after former Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh lobbied hard to install Ashok Chavan as his successor...

Slow, steady, Rahul picks up pace

Thursday 1 January '09

Congress HQ was abuzz with talks about Omar’s friendship with AICC general secy Rahul Gandhi who is younger to the NC chief by 100 days. Cong leaders conceded that it was this friendship that paved the way for party's coalition with NC.

Cong open to tie-up with NC

Monday 29 December '08

The Congress on Sunday looked inclined to forming an NC-led coalition Government in Jammu & Kashmir...

‘The family is back together. They said let the past be past’

Tuesday 23 December '08

The Central government promised to take steps. External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee will be going to Sri Lanka in this connection.

Andhra polls on mind, Cong to decide on SSRC

Saturday 20 December '08

With the Assembly election in Andhra Pradesh barely four months away, the Congress is learnt to be doing a re-think on setting up the Second State Reorganisation Commission..

The Jat myth: results show backing for Cong

Friday 12 December '08

Contrary to the general perception that the Jat community abandoned the Congress in Rajasthan, the Assembly election results show that the Congress continues to enjoy considerable support in the community.

After losses, regional satraps set to face Sonia rap

Thursday 11 December '08

With most of the party’s top guns failing to fire in the recent Assembly elections, Congress president Sonia Gandhi is set to send a stern message to regional satraps at the CWC meeting likely to be scheduled after the exercise of electing legislative party leaders in these states this week.

Day later: Gehlot stalled, infighting starts

Wednesday 10 December '08

The Congress high command is under extreme pressure from the Jat lobby in Rajasthan not to nominate Ashok Gehlot as the next CM.

Voter Confidence

Tuesday 9 December '08

Defying predictions of a political battering after the Mumbai terror strikes and the economic slowdown, the Congress managed to put up an impressive show in the Assembly elections and was set to form governments in Delhi, Rajasthan and Mizoram.

PM set to revamp Cabinet

Thursday 4 December '08

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is set to revamp the Union Council of Ministers shortly.

Deshmukh gone, Cong delays successor announcement

Wednesday 3 December '08

Three leaders have emerged as new candidates for Chief Ministership — Narayan Rane, Ashok Chavan and Balasaheb Vikhe-Patil.

As Madhya Pradesh votes today, all bets are out

Thursday 27 November '08

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s public meeting at Badwani in Madhya Pradesh last Saturday was impressive in terms of the size of the gathering.

Political leadership has role in arrests, says Advani

Tuesday 25 November '08

BJP leader L K Advani suggested that the “political leadership” had a role behind the arrests and revelations in connection with the Malegaon blast...

Advani ups Malegaon ante: ‘When they got nobody, they held Pragya’

Monday 24 November '08

A day after Rahul Gandhi sought to counter the BJP's charges about the UPA Government being soft on terror....

Did terrorists also uproot power poles, Rahul asks BJP

Sunday 23 November '08

AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Sunday accused the BJP of trying to divert the debate from lack of development in Madhya Pradesh to terrorism.

Modi milks Malegaon: ‘What Pak couldn’t do in 20 yrs, Hindustan govt did in 20 days’

Saturday 22 November '08

Putting terror at the centrestage in the last lap of the BJP’s poll campaign in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today accused the Congress-led government at the Centre of playing “votebank politics” by maligning the image of the Army and demoralizing the security forces.

Sadhvi is not in

Friday 21 November '08

I go to only those Muslims who say Vande Mataram and Bharat Mata ki Jai,” said Malini Gaur, BJP candidate from Indore-4, and widow of former Madhya Pradesh Education Minister Laxman Singh Gaur.

For Indore, Maya skips Ambedkar’s Mhow

Thursday 20 November '08

On Wednesday, as Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati exhorted a modest gathering at Dussehra Maidan here to vote for her party...

Assembly polls: few women get Cong tickets

Tuesday 18 November '08

While the Congress has been blowing its trumpet about its commitment to the uplift of women and providing them 33 pc reservation in Parliament and Assemblies, the ruling party at the Centre was not as magnanimous when it came to giving them tickets in the forthcoming Assembly elections.

Waning influence prompted Alva outburst

Tuesday 11 November '08

The recent “emotional outburst” of 10, Janpath loyalist Margaret Alva about sale of party tickets and double standards...

Sulking Ma Alva faces action, Rahul tells Sonia he’s upset tickets given to family

Saturday 8 November '08

While the Congress referred the case of AICC General Secretary Margaret Alva’s outburst to the DAC, the embattled leader can draw some comfort from the fact that Rahul Gandhi is said to be disturbed, too.

Cong MP says PM told him no probe in Jamia encounter

Friday 7 November '08

Prime Minister is said to have turned down demand for a judicial inquiry into Batla House police encounter.

Elections near, pink slips muddy rosy picture

Wednesday 5 November '08

While the ruling Congress at the Centre is busy praising its rural employment guarantee scheme implementation and the BJP regime...