Congress recasts team, relieves a few veterans

Constituting Rahul Gandhi's team for the 2014 Lok Sabha battle, Congress on Sunday brought in former Union Ministers Ajay Maken and C P Joshi along with Ambika Soni and Gurudas Kamat as general secretaries and dropped Ghulam Nabi Azad and Oscar Fernandes. Making large-scale changes in the organisation, Congress President Sonia Gandhi retained Ahmed Patel as her political secretary but significantly made Ambika Soni as general secretary in-charge of the Congress president's office. Soni was the ...

ed comments on this article TNN | Jun 4, 2013, 12.46 AM IST RELATED GUWAHATI: The war of words between AGP and Congress escalated further on Monday when members of the regional party hit the streets and burnt effigies of AICC vice-president Rahul ...

The Indira Gandhi International airport has added another gem to its collection of public art. Celebrated contemporary artist Anjolie Ela Menon has created a 21 feet x 8.2 feet mural soon to be unveiled at the domestic departure Terminal 3. And ...

'I come from a country of colours. India is one of the most colourful countries in the world and that was true long before the Incredible India campaigns designed to entice Western tourists to India,' says Aseem Chhabra. Last year, a friend got married in New Jersey. It was a hot summer day and I decided against wearing a suit. Instead I pulled out a red cotton kurta I had bought during an earlier trip to India. On my way I rode the number 7 train in Queens, switching to a G, heading to ...

International News: AICC reshuffle: The big gainers were Shakeel Ahmed, Mohan Prak-ash, Gurudas Kamat and Luizinho Faleiro, all of whom were inducted into the CWC. The first three retained their posts as general secretaries. P Chidambaram was not ...

The Congress Sunday appointed general secretary Madhusudan Mistry as 2014 Lok Sabha in-charge of Uttar Pradesh in a move to counter Chief Minister Narendra Modi's aide Amit Shah. Shah is BJP's in-charge of the crucial state. AICC vice-president ...

LK Advani's resignation from all party posts and the withdrawal of the same a day later have been variously interpreted in political circles. Some have called it an abject surrender to Modi and the RSS. Is there more to read between the lines? ...

Achieving specialised emergency medical services in India is the need of the hour. However, this can be made possible only by creating infrastructure that suits an ideal emergency unit. Dr Paresh Navalkar, HOD-Pre Hospital Care, Ziqitza Health Care ...

K.G. Subramanyan's new mural is remarkable in scale and vision—and for what it says about the mural as an art form Sanjukta Sharma War of the Relics at Sakshi Gallery. Photo: Abhijit Bhatlekar/Mint In K.G. Subramanyan's spectacular new mural, War ...