Odds favour Kharge over Tharoor and Tripathi in Congress polls

The stage was set on Friday for a contest between Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor for the Congress president's post, with the Dalit leader from Karnataka emerging as the clear favourite. The......

Loyalist to rebel: What forced Azad to sever 50 years of bond with Congress

Veteran Congressman Ghulam Nabi Azad, a constant fixture in the organisation's decision-making process since the tumultuous times of Emergency, finally fell out with his mother party on Friday......

Cong raises heat against Irani as MPs protest in Parliament

The Congress on Friday stepped up its attack against Union minister Smriti Irani for having a face-off with Sonia Gandhi earlier in the lower house over Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury's 'rashtrapatni'......

Many Cong leaders detained during gherao of Raj Bhavans across states

Congress leaders and workers continued their protests in several states on Thursday against Rahul Gandhi's questioning by the Enforcement Directorate in the National Herald money-laundering case......

Prasar Bharati CEO faces SC inquiry

Prasar Bharati CEO B S Lalli will face a Supreme Court inquiry into charges of administrative and financial irregularities against him following a Presidential reference. The assent to the......

2G scam: 'It was daylight robbery'

The 2G spectrum scam cost the exchequer Rs 176,000 crore (Rs 1,760 billion). Following the expose, one minister has lost his job while numerous journalists have had their credibility questioned.......

The IPL's capitalist ideology

IPL is a metaphor for a new India - crass, brash and razzmatazz - but it is in big trouble, says Gurcharan Das. The recently concluded IPL has been a non-stop party that lasted for six weeks, to......

Will Rangarajan's magic work?

Doctor C Rangarajan stepping down from chairmanship of the PM's official economic advisers is, fortunately, not a sign that his role as a policy-maker is coming to end; he has become a Rajya Sabha......

Azad's plea for CBI probe into DDCA dismissed

Judge says court-monitored probe or setting up of a Special Investigation Team is only done "in rarest of rare cases and not because a Union Minister is said to be involved”. The Delhi high......