Congress Throws Down the Gauntlet: Seven Questions That Still Haunt PM Modi in 2026
New Delhi, As India steps into 2026, the Congress party has sharpened its political attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, listing what it calls seven “great challenges”—or unanswered promises—that continue to define his leadership more than a decade after the BJP first came to power at the Centre in 2014. Framed as a report card […]
INDIA SURPASSES JAPAN AS 4TH LARGEST ECONOMY ?
NEW DELHI: Before 2025 ended, India overtook Japan to become the world’s fourth-biggest economy, with officials hoping to pass Germany soon, according to the government’s end-of-year economic review. Officials are hoping to pass Germany within the next three yearData shows that India’s nominal gross domestic product (GDP) has reached $4.18 trillion, placing it in the […]
CONG SEEKS PM’S RESPONSE TO CHINA’S WAR MEDIATION CLAIM
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Wednesday termed Chinese claims of mediation between India and Pakistan concerning and said Prime Minister Modi must clarify as the people of India need clarity on the issue. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh asked the Prime Minister to break his silence on the claim, which he said seemed to make […]
AMIT SHAH, MAMATA TRADE JABS OVER SIR, INFILTRATION
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and union home minister Amit Shah traded allegations and snide remarks Tuesday in equal measure, ramping up campaign rhetoric before next year’s Bengal election. This was after Shah, in Bengal for a three-day visit to jumpstart his party’s poll campaign, accused the Trinamool Congress boss of having […]
JAIRAM URGES SC TO RECONSIDER SARISKA BOUNDARY REVISION
NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to take suo motu cognisance of three other “urgent” environmental matters, including the redrawing of the Sariska tiger reserve boundaries. In a post on X, the Congress general secretary referred to the apex court’s order on Monday — recalling, on its own, […]
PRIYANKA GANDHI’S SON RAIHAN ENGAGED TO LONGTIME GIRLFRIEND AVIVA BAIG
NEW DELHI: Raihan Vadra, the son of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi and businessman Robert Vadra, is now engaged to his longtime girlfriend, Aviva Baig. Raihan Vadra, 25, proposed to Aviva Baig, his girlfriend of seven years, on Monday in the presence of both families and she said yes. Priyanka also has a 23-year old daughter […]
IS NAIDU AMBITIOUS TO REPLACE MODI AS PRIME MINISTER ?
CHANDRA BABU NAIDU AMBITIOUS TO REPLACE MODI AS PRIME MINISTER ? NEW DELHI: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N. Chandra Babu Naidu, who is also the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, is ambitious to become the prime minister after Narendra Modi and he sees in Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat fulfilling his ambition […]
EX-MLA KULDEEP SENGAR TO STAY IN JAIL: SC STAYS BAIL IN UNNAO CASE
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has stayed a Delhi High Court order suspending ex-BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar’s life term for the rape of a woman – then a minor – in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao in 2017. A vacation bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant and including Justices JK Maheshwari and Augustine George Masih […]
ECI DEPLOYS NEW SOFTWARE FOR SIR, MINUS PROPER PROTOCOLS
NEW DELHI,2025: The journey of Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the Election Commission of India’s intensive exercise to purify the voter rolls, could have been a smooth journey. But it is not the case, all thanks to the non-stop flip-flop over the rules and procedures governing the process. The tussle reached the Supreme Court, where the […]
ROW OVER DIGVIJAYA SINGH’S PRAISE FOR BJP-RSS, QUESTIONS RAHUL GANDHI
NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh has triggered a fresh controversy, a week after writing to Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi over the need for reforms within the party. Sharing a black and white photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the 1990s Saturday morning, he praised the BJP […]
