
New Delhi: Congress on Sunday steered clear of the midnight crackdown on Baba Ramdev's hunger strike, but decided to meet the challenge posed by communal forces which have been repeatedly defeated in the elections. After a lengthy meeting at Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's residence, party General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi sidestepped questions whether the party endorsed the police action late Saturday night. "That has already been explained by the Government," he...

09:43 PM, Jun 05, 2011

New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Mukul Wasnik was on Sunday heckled at the party Plenary causing commotion with workers from Bihar accusing him of "selling" tickets in the just-concluded assembly elections in which the party got routed. As Wasnik tried to fix a dysfunctional sound system on the dais, a number of delegates from Bihar raised slogans against him and demanded his removal. Wasnik is in-charge of party affairs in...

04:35 PM, Dec 19, 2010

New Delhi: With Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan's on the way out, the hunt for the next chief minister of the state has started. The two-member committee headed by Defence Minister AK Antony and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will also look into the involvement of then chief ministers Sushil Kumar Shinde and Vilasrao Deshmukh in the Adarsh society scam. But with no proof yet of their direct involvement, it may...

05:23 PM, Oct 30, 2010
Patna: Union minister for Social Justice and Empowerment and Congress party in-charge Bihar affairs Mukul Wasnik on Sunday said that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar "lacked the stature" to enter into a debate with Congress president Sonia Gandhi over Central assistance to Bihar. Reacting to Kumar's challenge to Sonia Gandhi for a debate over the Centre's financial assistance to Bihar during the rule of the Manmohan Singh government, Wasnik and...

11:17 PM, Aug 22, 2010

Mother of murdered business executive says she doesn't fear responsibility. ...

06:09 PM, Feb 24, 2009