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NEW DELHI: Amid infighting in Uttarakhand Congress, former Chief Minister Harish Rawat and AICC in-charge for the state Devender Yadav on Friday met former party chief Rahul Gandhi at his residence. The two leaders were called for a meeting with the senior leadership after Rawat on Wednesday sent out cryptic tweets over the handling of […]

CHANDIGARH/NEW DELHI:  Eight years after the then wrestler-turned-druglord Jagdish Bhola, who was arrested in a Rs 6500-crore synthetic drug scam, had accused Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Badal’s brother-in-law Bikram Majithia of him as a kingpin leading to the summons served by ED on him, Punjab Police has booked the key Akali Dal man on […]

CHANDIGARH: In a major development on Monday, a senior Congress leader and minister for Technical Education Rana Gurjeet Singh lashed out at Punjab Congress committee president Navjot Singh Sidhu for trying to create divisions within the party and questioning the loyalty of the true and traditional Congressmen. Rana took a dig at Sidhu’s flip-flops in […]

NEW DELHI: Upping the ante against the government over the suspension of 12 Rajya Sabha MPs for the entire session of Parliament, opposition MPs took out a protest march from Mahatma Gandhi statue in Parliament to Vijay Chowk on Tuesday. Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi described it as the crushing of the voice of the opposition […]

Uday Mahurkar’s latest book, ‘Veer Savarkar: The Man Who Could Have Prevented Partition’ may be one of the most challenging works in Indian writing that attempts to decode multidimensional personality of Savarakar. Presently in office as India’s Information Commissioner, we discuss the book and beyond, with this veteran journalist, columnist, and author in our Book […]

NEW DELHI: The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Thursday announced that it is calling off its protest after the central government accepted its pending demands, bringing a relief to many including travellers, daily commuters as well as goods transporters who had to shift routes from the National Highway 1 for last more than one year. […]

ROME: Prime Minister Narendra Modi termed the outcome of the G20 Summit here as “fruitful” and said leaders had elaborate deliberations on issues of global importance such as fighting the pandemic, improving health infrastructure, boosting economic cooperation and furthering innovation. READ: Had A “Very Warm Meeting” With Pope Francis, Says PM Modi As He “Invites” […]

NEW DELHI: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday once again came down heavily on party leaders as she stressed that there is lack of clarity and cohesion even amongst the party’s state level on policy issues. Sonia Gandhi made the remarks at the party’s general secretaries, secretaries, state in-charges and state unit chiefs meeting at […]

NEW DELHI: India has a reason to celebrate. The country today achieved a historic 100 crore Covid-19 vaccination-mark, further strengthening our fight against the pandemic. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday visited the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital and expressed gratitude to doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers who helped India achieve the historic 100 crore […]