New Delhi Congress President Rahul Gandhi today said he had made up his mind to quit the post and was not changing his mind for anything. Gandhi told party’s Lok Sabha MPs at a strategy meeting that his decision to resign as Congress president was final but he would commitRead More

New Delhi Continuing with his attack on the Congress, PM Narendra Modi, in his first speech in the Rajya Sabha after the Lok Sabha election results, said, it was an insult to voters of the country to question efficacy and veracity of EVMs and BJP’s resounding victory. In his replyRead More

Hyderabad Grandson of PV Narasimha Rao on Thursday hit back at a senior Congress leader for his allegations against the former prime minister and sought an apology from the Gandhi family for “injustice” done to him. NV Subhash said AICC Secretary G Chinna Reddy’s statement that Rao had tried toRead More

New Delhi Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged called the lynching of a 24-year-old man in Jharkhand a “blot on humanity” and said the “silence” of powerful voices in the BJP-ruled central and state governments over the incident is shocking. Tabrez Ansari was thrashed by a mob for allegedRead More

New Delhi In his maiden reply to the first debate in the newly constituted 17th Lok Sabha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today slammed the Congress for imposing Emergency 44 years ago and asked the grand old party if it had ever acknowledged any national leader beyond the first family. RespondingRead More

United Nations In a highly significant diplomatic win for India and testament to its global stature, India’s candidature for a non-permanent seat at the powerful UN Security Council for a two-year term has been unanimously endorsed by the Asia-Pacific group at the world body. Elections for five non-permanent members ofRead More

New Delhi Universities are autonomous bodies and there is no compulsion on them to teach any particular subject, the University Grants Commission (UGC) on Wednesday said. The UGC’s comments comes in the wake of a row triggered by allegations from Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU), which on Monday saidRead More

Panaji Veteran freedom fighter Mohan Ranade, who also participated in the Goa liberation movement, died at a Pune-based hospital in neighbouring Maharashtra on Tuesday morning, a family source said. He was 90. Ranade had been ailing for some time and undergoing treatment at the hospital where he breathed his lastRead More

New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday paid homage to all “those greats” who resisted the Emergency imposed by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on this day in 1975 and said democracy had prevailed over authoritarianism. “India salutes all those greats who fiercely and fearlessly resisted the Emergency.Read More

Dehradun Swami Satyamitranand Giri Maharaj, a renowned seer, passed away here on Tuesday after a prolonged illness. The 87-year-old head of Bharat Mata Janhit Trust was undergoing treatment for some time at a hospital here, Acharya Mahamandaleshwar Swami Avadeshanand Giri Maharaj said. “The ‘samadhi’ will be at Haridwar-based Raghav KutirRead More