Ruminations: Past forward for Congress

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi unleashed stinging attacks on the Narendra Modi led-BJP government during the first leg of his two week visit to the US. Speaking at the University of California, Berkeley, the Gandhi scion lambasted the Modi government ...

Rahul Gandhi today flayed the Jammu and Kashmir policy of the Narendra Modi government, alleging that it has created a space in the troubled state for Pakistan to "misbehave". His attack on the government at a Congress rally in Bengaluru comes a day after Modi, in his Independence Day address, reached out to Kashmiris, saying abuses and bullets would not resolve their problems but embracing them would. "He (Modi) has created an environment in Jammu and Kashmir of hatred and anger, and the ...

A day after Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that his party is in 'existential crisis', the grand old party on Tuesday flatly rejected the assertion."This is true that the Congress is going through challenging phase but we don't agree this that there is ...

The disqualification of Nawaz Sharif as the Prime Minister of Pakistan, and not the floor test in the Bihar Assembly, ruled conversation in the Central Hall of Parliament today.   BJP MPs, who were in large attendance, were of course rejoicing at the imminent sacking of Nawaz Sharif by the Pakistan Supreme Court, but the jubilation was tempered with concern over the Pakistan Army getting a upper hand.   Of course, Nitish winning the vote of confidence in the Bihar Assembly ...

After a flip-flop over vice president Rahul Gandhi's meeting with the Chinese ambassador, the Congress on Wednesday roped in senior leaders to formulate its day-to-day media strategies and "assist" its communications department. Congress president Sonia ...

  Congress leader Manish Tewari on Sunday triggered a row with a twitter post using abusive language against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, evoking sharp reactions from the Bharatiya Janata Party and the twitterati demanding an apology from Sonia Gandhi. Tewari is the second Congress leader after party general secretary Digvijaya Singh to come under fire for using foul language against Modi. Singh had recently retweeted a post which contained expletives against the prime minister.   In ...

Five months after Pehlu Khan (55), a dairy farmer was beaten to death by alleged cow vigilantes in Alwar, the names of six persons mentioned by Pehlu Khan himself before he died have been removed from the FIR by the Rajasthan police. In his statement to ...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday booked former environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan and raided her residence, in connection with the clearance given to divert forest land in Jharkhand for mining during her tenure, allegedly in ...

Roopa, wife of Jagadish, who was crushed under a tree on Friday night, and her brother Rajkumar, a senior Aadhaar offical, took three hours to reach Victoria Hospital from their house in Byrasandra, a mere 4.2 km away. "All routes were blocked as trees and ...