Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi are majority shareholders of Young Indian with 38 per cent shares held by each one of them. They were questioned for hours by the ED in this case a few years back.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi was on Monday appointed the chairperson of the National Advisory Council, four years after she quit the post in the wake of the office of profit controversy.
Congress has been non-committal about joining the government headed by Koda, who is an independent MLA.
She called upon them to forcefully fight against the challenges posed by the present dispensation
School students in Rajasthan will no longer study two-part supplementary textbooks with state Education Minister Madan Dilawar arguing that these reading materials are not required because they glorify the Nehru-Gandhi family and carry no marks for students.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday held talks with Congress president Sonia Gandhi on the issue of his election to the state legislative council, which is necessary for his remaining at the helm of affairs in the state.
Gandhi urged the prime minister to speak out "clearly, boldly and forthrightly" on behalf of the legacy that India has long represented.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla criticized former Congress president Sonia Gandhi's remarks about the Waqf (Amendment) Bill being "bulldozed through" the Lower House. Birla said a senior member casting aspersions on the House proceedings was "most unfortunate" and against the dignity of parliamentary democracy. He pointed out that the bill was debated for 13 hours and 53 minutes with several members participating and was passed after multiple divisions.
Filmmaker Jagmohan Mundhra, who had put on hold a biographical movie on Sonia Gandhi after her party slapped a legal notice on him, has said the Congress President told him she was "amused" by the project as she felt such movies were only made about "people who are dead."
Inclement weather forced cancellation of Congress president Sonia Gandhi's scheduled rally at Moga today in the run up to the elections to the 117-member state assembly on January 30. Gandhi was scheduled to address rallies at Moga and Kapurthala on Thursday. Earlier, a Congress spokesman had stated that Gandhi's rally at Kapurthala had also been cancelled, but later said that due to improvement in weather, the party has decided to hold the Kapurthala rally.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has asked Congress president Sonia Gandhi to depose before it on July 21 for questioning in the National Herald newspaper-linked money-laundering case, officials said on Monday.
'And because she was very close to Indira Gandhi, she was close to me.' 'Sonia is a wonderful person'
Gandhi also hailed Vice President-elect Kamala Harris' success as a 'triumph for Black Americans and Indian Americans'. The Congress chief said she knew Harris would work to heal and unite a 'bitterly divided nation'.
The Supreme Court on Friday admitted a petition questioning whether a person of foreign origin can hold public office.
The Congress chief is staying with the family of Suman Dubey, a close friend of her late husband Rajiv Gandhi.
A reversing BEST bus in Mumbai struck pedestrians, resulting in four deaths and nine injuries. The incident occurred in Bhandup (West) and is under investigation.
All India Congress Committee President Sonia Gandhi on Monday offered a chadar at the dargah of Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti on the occasion of the 801st Urs.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday said after almost 12 months of Gandhian agitation, the repeal of three farm laws is a 'victory of the will of 62 crore farmers and sacrifices of more than 700 farmers who laid their lives for this struggle,' and hoped that the Bharatiya Janata Party government would have drawn some lessons for future.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday urged all political parties, including the Congress, to unite against anti-India forces, and raise their voice if they find their leaders working against the country's interest.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi is recovering in the Intensive Care Unit of a US hospital where she underwent successful surgery for an undisclosed ailment.
After being elected president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in 1999, Najma Heptulla rang up the then Congress chief Sonia Gandhi from Berlin to convey the news but had to hold the phone line for an hour as a staff told her that 'madam is busy'.
Leading the counter-offensive on the coal block allocation issue, Congress President Sonia Gandhi is expected to rally the party behind Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by making a strong attack on BJP at a party meeting on Tuesday.
If BCCI Vice-President Rajeev Shukla has to be believed then Sachin Tendulkar is in Parliament because of Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
Sheela Bhatt says Sonia Gandhi's speech in Rajkot did not do anything to galvanise the Congress cadre in Gujarat.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi is likely to return on Thursday night after her surgery for an undisclosed ailment in an undisclosed country.
In their election affidavits, Sonia Gandhi declared a 45 per cent drop in her income in 2017-18 compared to 2013-14, while Irani's income increased roughly an 80 per cent increase in her income in the same time span.
Rajkumar Chowdhury is the candidate.
'...spent 1/10th of his time at 24, Akbar Road...' 'He would have met thousands of party workers and ordinary Congress supporters who have love for the party.' 'Left of Centre intellectuals have shaped Rahul's values, but he lacks earthiness.'
Ashok Pandey, a Lucknow-based advocate, had asked the court to direct President A P J Abdul Kalam not to appoint the Congress chief as the prime minister.
Faisal Patel's tweet did not mention what kind of encouragement he was looking for, however, many believe it could be linked to his possible electoral debut.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi is learnt to have slowed down her activities over the last few weeks, say highly placed sources in the party.
Sonia Gandhi has certainly got the inspiration, but does she have the necessary stamina, the mental and physical reserve, to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party's political machinery?
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday underwent surgery in a United States hospital for an undisclosed ailment which will keep her out of India for a month. The Congress party's announcement in New Delhi that its 64-year-old leader has been diagnosed for surgery and that general secretary Rahul Gandhi, Defence Minister A K Antony, her political aide Ahmed Patel and general secretary Janardhan Dwivedi will run the affairs of the party caught the country by total surprise
Congress President Sonia Gandhi vacated the seat in the wake of office of profit controversy.
Her black bag had "National Herald Ki Loot" emblazoned over it in red colour.
Shivakumar, 57, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on September 3 in a money laundering case.
The Congress' new headquarters located at 9A, Kotla Road in New Delhi was inaugurated on Wednesday, as the grand old party turned a page in its history after operating from its iconic 24, Akbar Road premises for the last 47 years.
Kumar had sought central university status for it in keeping with public sentiments.
Addressing a rally Garhmukteshwar in UP's Ghaziabad district, Singh said he regretted making adverse remarks against the Congress president and the Amethi MP when he was with the Samajwadi Party.
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