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New Delhi:  The protests over the amended Citizenship law that initially began in the northeast has spilled in at least 10 states across the country. Three persons have died and several injured as protesters clashed with police against the new law. Protesters in Uttar Pradesh, parts of Delhi, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh defied the police to take part in protests ... Read More »

Mumbai:  Repeated disruptions by the BJP in the Maharashtra assembly over Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s comments on Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar drew a stinging response from the ruling Shiv Sena on Monday, with Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray targeting the BJP over promises left “unfulfilled” under the previous Devendra Fadnavis government. The winter session of the Maharashtra assembly in Nagpur ... Read More »

Wayanad:  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who is touring his parliamentary constituency Wayanad, took out some time off from his busy schedule to sip tea at a stall on Friday. Accompanied by Congress general secretary KC Venugopal, Rahul Gandhi was seen chatting with a group of people at the tea stall. Earlier today, the former Congress president addressed a rally where ... Read More »

NEW DELHI:  Rahul Gandhi has asked Congress workers at his parliamentary constituency Wayanad, which has been ravaged by floods, to rush to the district in Kerala and help in rescue and relief operations. An entire cluster of homes of plantation workers at a tea estate in Wayanad was swept away by a landslide on Thursday evening. At least 150 are trapped under ... Read More »

NEW DELHI:  Smriti Irani today tweeted a thank-you for Amethi, where her victory over Congress president Rahul Gandhi may be this election’s show-stopper. “A new morning for Amethi, a new pledge. You placed your trust in development, grateful to Amethi,” said the BJP leader. Rahul Gandhi’s defeat in Amethi – he won from the second seat he contested, Kerala’s Wayanad – ... Read More »

NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi tweeted today that the ruling BJP’s manifesto for the national election was the “voice of an isolated man, short-sighted and arrogant”. At the launch of the BJP manifesto on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had remarked that “people sitting in AC rooms cannot fix poverty”. The Congress president’s tweet is seen by many as a response ... Read More »

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will kick-start another campaign in Uttar Pradesh today over a week after her boat yatra across four districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh. She would launch the campaign from Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha seat, Amethi. She would then visit Rae Bareli, her mother Sonia Gandhi’s parliamentary seat. In a schedule sent out to journalists, the Congress ... Read More »

NEW DELHI: Top leaders of the Congress will today meet to discuss and give a final shape to the party’s manifesto for the Lok Sabha election starting April 11. The CWC is the highest decision-making body of the party and is chaired by Congress president Rahul Gandhi. In Uttar Pradesh, actor-turned-politician Hema Malini will hold a rally with Chief Minister ... Read More »