Arvind Gunasekar And Sunil Prabhu

Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said they considered various factors, including rules, the gap between dates of the two states' assembly terms, and weather, to arrive at the decision.

It is Mallikarjun Kharge versus Shashi Tharoor as the Congress picks its first non-Gandhi president in 25 years. Mr Kharge, 80, is the candidate backed by the Gandhis and is almost certain to be elected in the October 17 polls.

The Congress has issued warning to Ashok Gehlot loyalists in Rajasthan, already accused of indiscipline. Senior Central leader KC Venugopal said strong action will be taken for statements on the party's "internal matters and against other leaders".

Ashok Gehlot today apologised to Sonia Gandhi and said he will not run for Congress president, taking "moral responsibility" for the Rajasthan revolt. The Congress said Sonia Gandhi will decide "in a day or two" whether he will remain Chief Minister.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi have been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate in a money-laundering case related to the National Herald newspaper. Rahul Gandhi has been summoned tomorrow and Sonia Gandhi on June 8.

The suspension of 12 MPs - for "misbehaviour" on the last day of the previous session - will not be lifted, Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu said this morning, after which the opposition walked out and the Upper House was adjourned for the day.

Sonia Gandhi on Saturday underlined her position as a "full-time and hands-on Congress President" as she hit back at critics within the party - specifically the 'G-23' - who have been pushing, for over a year now, for an overhaul and internal polls.

Elections for a full-time Congress President and a team of new office-bearers will be held in August-September next year, the party said Saturday after a meeting of the Congress Working Committee.

The Congress' search to replace a "humiliated" Amarinder Singh - who quit yesterday as Punjab Chief Minister after a long and bitter feud with Navjot Sidhu - continues, with frontrunner Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa's name not unanimously approved.

Pegasus scandal: Defence Ministry says "no transaction" with spyware maker NSO Group

Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is likely to remain the Congress's Leader in the Lok Sabha for now, sources indicated today ahead of its Parliamentary party meeting.

The centre has issued an order to recall West Bengal's top bureaucrat from the state on a day a row broke out over a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

The Congress is "getting weak", Kapil Sibal said at a public event in J&K on Saturday, as members of the G-23 - senior leaders who have questioned the Gandhis' leadership style - shared a stage and calls to strengthen the party before polls in Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry and Assam. The meeting also comes days after the BJP lashed out ove...

Interim Congress chief Sonia Gandhi will meet senior party leaders today to discuss the farmers' agitation, especially in the wake of the stalemate even after an eighth round of talks between the protesters and the government. She will connect virtually with party general secretaries and in-charges to chalk out a strategy to back the thousands who ...

Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel, one of Sonia Gandhi's closest political advisers and a top party trouble-shooter, has died. He was 71. He had been in Gurgaon hospital since his health worsened after a Covid infection.

Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said they considered various factors, including rules, the gap between dates of the two states' assembly terms, and weather, to arrive at the decision.

It is Mallikarjun Kharge versus Shashi Tharoor as the Congress picks its first non-Gandhi president in 25 years. Mr Kharge, 80, is the candidate backed by the Gandhis and is almost certain to be elected in the October 17 polls.

The Congress has issued warning to Ashok Gehlot loyalists in Rajasthan, already accused of indiscipline. Senior Central leader KC Venugopal said strong action will be taken for statements on the party's "internal matters and against other leaders".

Ashok Gehlot today apologised to Sonia Gandhi and said he will not run for Congress president, taking "moral responsibility" for the Rajasthan revolt. The Congress said Sonia Gandhi will decide "in a day or two" whether he will remain Chief Minister.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi have been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate in a money-laundering case related to the National Herald newspaper. Rahul Gandhi has been summoned tomorrow and Sonia Gandhi on June 8.

The suspension of 12 MPs - for "misbehaviour" on the last day of the previous session - will not be lifted, Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu said this morning, after which the opposition walked out and the Upper House was adjourned for the day.

Sonia Gandhi on Saturday underlined her position as a "full-time and hands-on Congress President" as she hit back at critics within the party - specifically the 'G-23' - who have been pushing, for over a year now, for an overhaul and internal polls.

Elections for a full-time Congress President and a team of new office-bearers will be held in August-September next year, the party said Saturday after a meeting of the Congress Working Committee.

The Congress' search to replace a "humiliated" Amarinder Singh - who quit yesterday as Punjab Chief Minister after a long and bitter feud with Navjot Sidhu - continues, with frontrunner Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa's name not unanimously approved.

Pegasus scandal: Defence Ministry says "no transaction" with spyware maker NSO Group

Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is likely to remain the Congress's Leader in the Lok Sabha for now, sources indicated today ahead of its Parliamentary party meeting.

The centre has issued an order to recall West Bengal's top bureaucrat from the state on a day a row broke out over a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

The Congress is "getting weak", Kapil Sibal said at a public event in J&K on Saturday, as members of the G-23 - senior leaders who have questioned the Gandhis' leadership style - shared a stage and calls to strengthen the party before polls in Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry and Assam. The meeting also comes days after the BJP lashed out ove...

Interim Congress chief Sonia Gandhi will meet senior party leaders today to discuss the farmers' agitation, especially in the wake of the stalemate even after an eighth round of talks between the protesters and the government. She will connect virtually with party general secretaries and in-charges to chalk out a strategy to back the thousands who ...

Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel, one of Sonia Gandhi's closest political advisers and a top party trouble-shooter, has died. He was 71. He had been in Gurgaon hospital since his health worsened after a Covid infection.