NEW DELHI: Former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot has reignited discussions around the 2022 Congress presidential race and internal party turmoil, saying he would not have refused the top post if offered by Sonia Gandhi and the party leadership.His comments are being seen as reopening old fault lines within the Congress over the leadership transition…
New Delhi: The absence of anaemia estimates from the newly released National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-6 Fact Sheets has sparked questions among public health experts, with the government saying the indicator was excluded because of concerns over the blood-testing method used in previous survey rounds.Health Ministry officials said haemoglobin testing was not carried out in…
NEW DELHI: 2026 has been a year of Congress‘ re-emergence in southern India. The party won comfortably in the Kerala assembly elections, entered the Tamil Nadu government by supporting Vijay‘s TVK, and also solved the three-year-long tussle over the chief ministerial post in Karnataka.But, just as it seemed that everything was going Congress’s way, regional…
EAM Jaishankar with Nepal FM Shisir Khanal Nepal’s foreign minister Shisir Khanal on Sunday emphasised on a stronger development-oriented partnership with India while also calling for the revival of dormant bilateral mechanisms and the resumption of high-level political exchanges between the two neighbours.Addressing a media briefing during his three-day visit to India, Khanal highlighted the…
BENGALURU: If Karnataka’s CMs are plotted not by party but by regions they came from, a pattern emerges: Its political centre of gravity hasn’t remained fixed. When DK Shivakumar took oath last week, he became the latest stop in a political journey that began in the northern districts, shifted to Old Mysuru, scattered across regions…
Abhijeet Dipke (Image/PTI) NEW DELHI: The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) laid out its next course of action, warning that it will launch fresh protests across the country if union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan is not removed from office or does not resign within the next seven days. The announcement comes after hundreds of students, young…
NEW DELHI: Opposition parties slammed the Centre after domestic LPG cylinder prices were increased by Rs 29, accusing the PM Modi’s government of adding to the financial burden on households already grappling with inflation.The latest revision has pushed the price of a 14.2-kg domestic LPG cylinder in Delhi to Rs 942 from Rs 913. The…
NEW DELHI: Cricketer-turned politician Yusuf Pathan on Saturday dismissed reports claiming that the TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee either directly or through Sourav Ganguly had asked him to resign from his Lok Sabha seat to pave the way for her to contest a by-election.In a video shared on social media, Pathan termed the reports “completely false”…
NEW DELHI: The High Commission of India in London on Friday condemned what it described as “indecorous audience behavior” during Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant’s lecture at Birkbeck College, after videos surfaced online showing an attendee attempting to raise questions about dissent and democracy in India during the event.“Such indecorous audience behavior is…
NEW DELHI: Amid concerns of internal rift in the Trinamool Congress (TMC), only 8 of 80 MLAs and 6 MPs attended the meeting at Mamata Banerjee’s residence on Friday, ANI reported.Among those present at the residence were MLAs Bina Mondal, Ashima Patra, Madan Mitra, Kunal Ghosh, Firhad Hakim, Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, Biman Banerjee and Ashok Kumar…