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Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday met party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, a day after the core group of its 'G-23' dissidents, held a third round of discussions following the massive election drubbing.

The core group of Congress's G-23 dissidents are meeting again at the home of senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad this evening -- their second gathering in 24 hours.

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi this morning flagged off a series of meetings - to be held over the next 10 days - with senior party leaders to elect the next president. After months of infighting, a core group of rebel leaders - who wrote a letter in August flagging a leadership drift and calling for sweeping organizational changes - began discussion...

The "dissent letter" by 23 Congress leaders that was seen to be a challenge to the Gandhi leadership evolved after months of planning and discussions by a core group, one of the signatories to the letter, a veteran Congress leader, told NDTV.

As the BJP hopes to form government in Maharashtra for a second term with Devendra Fadnavis in charge, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik has said his party will vote against the BJP on the floor of the house. Nawab Malik said they will see if the "Shiv Sena votes against the BJP to pull down the government", according to news agen...

Lawmakers without a core Hindutva background, especially those who joined the BJP from other political groups or after winning the 2013 assembly elections as independent candidates, are being viewed with a certain degree of wariness by the party leadership these days.

A video featuring Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and a group of children in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi has generated a buzz on social media. The Congress leader is seen clamping her mouth in shock when a profanity crops up in the interaction.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi will meet the party's core group today morning to chalk out strategy to further step up the offensive on the Modi government over the Rafale issue, sources said.

BJP chief Amit Shah today chaired a meeting of Uttarakhand core group, held in the wake of setback the party suffered in the state where its attempt to dislodge the Congress government failed.

Just when India's longest ever polling process was coming to an end, the most senior leaders of the Congress trooped into 10, Janpath, the residence of party president Sonia Gandhi for a stock taking meeting.

The most senior leaders of the Congress, including the Prime Minister and party president Sonia Gandhi, met this evening as voting concluded for the national election.

The Congress party's core group of decision makers, headed by party president Sonia Gandhi met at the Prime Minister's 7 Race Course Residence this evening as the five-week national election ended.

The Union Cabinet will meet this evening to take a final call on whether or not to take the ordinance route for key anti-corruption bills backed by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi.

The UPA government will not invoke the emergency powers of the Constitution for promulgating ordinances ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, due by May. The Congress Core Group, in a late evening meeting, decided not to go for the ordinance route for the anti-graft bills being pushed by Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, and some other important pieces...

In a rare move, Rahul Gandhi will attend a meeting of his party's core group -the senior-most leaders of the Congress. Sources close to him say from now on, he may attend all core group sessions, indicating a much more active role in the running of the Congress ,which is headed by his mother, Sonia.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday met party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, a day after the core group of its 'G-23' dissidents, held a third round of discussions following the massive election drubbing.

The core group of Congress's G-23 dissidents are meeting again at the home of senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad this evening -- their second gathering in 24 hours.

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi this morning flagged off a series of meetings - to be held over the next 10 days - with senior party leaders to elect the next president. After months of infighting, a core group of rebel leaders - who wrote a letter in August flagging a leadership drift and calling for sweeping organizational changes - began discussion...

The "dissent letter" by 23 Congress leaders that was seen to be a challenge to the Gandhi leadership evolved after months of planning and discussions by a core group, one of the signatories to the letter, a veteran Congress leader, told NDTV.

As the BJP hopes to form government in Maharashtra for a second term with Devendra Fadnavis in charge, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik has said his party will vote against the BJP on the floor of the house. Nawab Malik said they will see if the "Shiv Sena votes against the BJP to pull down the government", according to news agen...

Lawmakers without a core Hindutva background, especially those who joined the BJP from other political groups or after winning the 2013 assembly elections as independent candidates, are being viewed with a certain degree of wariness by the party leadership these days.

A video featuring Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and a group of children in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi has generated a buzz on social media. The Congress leader is seen clamping her mouth in shock when a profanity crops up in the interaction.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi will meet the party's core group today morning to chalk out strategy to further step up the offensive on the Modi government over the Rafale issue, sources said.

BJP chief Amit Shah today chaired a meeting of Uttarakhand core group, held in the wake of setback the party suffered in the state where its attempt to dislodge the Congress government failed.

Just when India's longest ever polling process was coming to an end, the most senior leaders of the Congress trooped into 10, Janpath, the residence of party president Sonia Gandhi for a stock taking meeting.

The most senior leaders of the Congress, including the Prime Minister and party president Sonia Gandhi, met this evening as voting concluded for the national election.

The Congress party's core group of decision makers, headed by party president Sonia Gandhi met at the Prime Minister's 7 Race Course Residence this evening as the five-week national election ended.

The Union Cabinet will meet this evening to take a final call on whether or not to take the ordinance route for key anti-corruption bills backed by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi.

The UPA government will not invoke the emergency powers of the Constitution for promulgating ordinances ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, due by May. The Congress Core Group, in a late evening meeting, decided not to go for the ordinance route for the anti-graft bills being pushed by Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, and some other important pieces...

In a rare move, Rahul Gandhi will attend a meeting of his party's core group -the senior-most leaders of the Congress. Sources close to him say from now on, he may attend all core group sessions, indicating a much more active role in the running of the Congress ,which is headed by his mother, Sonia.