Politics

Addresses a gathering at the Bucerius Summer School in Germany’s Hamburg, Congress president Rahul Gandhi also linked recent incidents of lynching in India to joblessness and the lack of opportunities for the poor.

The former prime minister said these trends are an anathema for promotion of peace, national integration and communal harmony.

According to the senior Congress leade, Jairam Ramesh , if the present minister of environment's "metric of success is based on the number of approvals he gave, then he is not doing his job".

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath who believes that UP is Vajpayee's 'karmabhoomi' - the land of action, said that this will give the people of the state an opportunity to be a part of his final journey.

Ashutosh, who had a long career as a television journalist before joining politics and Anna Hazare’s India Against Corruption (IAC) movement, requested that his privacy be respected.

The actor said he would have launched a protest if the government had appealed against a Madras high court verdict, directing it to provide burial space to the Dravidian stalwart on Marina beach.

In a series of tweets, Kanimozhi referred to the NGT decision to allow mining major Vedanta to enter the administrative unit of the Sterlite copper plant, which was closed on May 28 following violent protests by local over the ecological damage by the pla...

He said the parties who are joining the proposed alliance have had no role in the country's development.

Both parties will try to reach out to the state’s substantial tribal population on the occasion of World Tribal Day.

The saffron party, which has become wary after a tent collapsed at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Midnapore rally in June, also appealed to the police to allow the use of walkie-talkies during Saturday's rally.

Former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadavsaid the Congress can be given the seats that are left after an arrangement with the other three parties.

Taking a jibe at the Bihar CM for his inaction in Muzaffarpur shelter home rape cases, Yadav said that the accused are known to the chief minister and attempts are being made to shield the accused.

A batch of petitions is before the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of the provision which confers special status to permanent residents of Jammu and Kashmir.

His remarks come in the middle of a raging debate on Assam's National Register of Citizens after the final draft list of the exercise left out over 40 lakh people.

The Union minister for consumer affairs, food and public distribution also described the NDA government as "pro-poor, pro-Dalits and pro-farmers".

Sources said Congress is confident of a victory in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh assembly elections later this year, where it is unlikely to project a chief ministerial candidate.