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NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi is learnt to have told party leaders that internal elections are good for the organisation, and that she will play a “neutral role” in the process. The remarks have been variously interpreted, with some believing that her being “neutral” suggests that Rahul Gandhi ...

NEW DELHI: Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi has courted controversy during a poll rally by asking people not to let the "bhaiyas" of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Delhi enter the state, a remark apparently aimed at Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders. The word "bhaiyas" in reference to people ...

NEW DELHI: All India Congress Committee (AICC) leader in-charge of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, Kunwar Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh, popularly known as RPN, quit the party, dealing a personal blow to Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. He joined the BJP shortly after he tendered his resignation to Congress interim ...

The Union government is planning to acquire for itself overriding powers to transfer IAS and IPS officers through Central deputation, doing away with therequirement of taking the approval of the State governments. The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) wrote to the States on January 12 that the Union ...

Stepping up the protest against the suspension of the 12 Rajya Sabha MPs, all Opposition MPs have decided to boycott the session on Wednesday and join their suspended colleagues at the Gandhi statue outside Parliament. Opposition MPs from the Lok Sabha too will join them on another day.Two weeks ...

With 17 more cases of Omircon being reported across India — nine persons inJaipur, seven in Pune and a 37-year-old fully vaccinated man who arrived in Delhi from Tanzania — the total number of cases has risen to 21. Most of those who tested positive for the new variant ...

India hasn’t entirely ruled out on the possibility of agreeing to a ‘net zero’ target though it will not budge on demands from developed nations on making good on previous commitments, such as an annual $100 billion to developing countries for mitigating the impacts of climate change, facilitating technology ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Glasgow on October 31 to attend the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26), India has conveyed to the British Government this week, sources confirmed.The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on October 21 retained Pakistan in the ‘greylist’ yet again, observing that it needed ...

Ahead of 2022 assembly election, former Punjab Chief Minister and Congress leader Amarinder Singh on Tuesday announced to launch his own political party, saying that an alliance with the BJP was on card, if the ongoing farmers’ protest against agriculture laws was resolved.Thousands of migrant workers fleeing Kashmir along with their ...

A select list of stories to read before you start your day. A second arrest was made on Saturday in connection with the murder of a man at the site of the farmers’ protest at the Singhu border, with the “surrender” of Narain Singh at Amritsar in Punjab.Narain, a ...