Priyanka Gandhi on Monday underwent a minor surgery of gall bladder in a private hospital here. Fourty-year-old Priyanka underwent the surgery at Gangaram Hospital and is stable. It was conducted by a team of doctors led by Dr Praveen Bhatia of the Department of Minimal Access Surgery. ...
09:43 PM, Mar 04, 2013
In a game changing move, the Congress on Saturday appointed Rahul Gandhi as the Vice President of the party at the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting in Jaipur making the clamour to make him the party's prime ministerial candidate only grow louder. Defence Minister AK Antony proposed Rahul's name for the post and the CWC unanimously backed Antony's proposal. Sources, however, said that it was for sister Priyanka Gandhi's insistence...
09:02 AM, Jan 20, 2013
On the concluding day of her visit to her mother and Congress president Sonia Gandhi's Lok Sabha constituency, Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday met party workers and discussed ways and means to strengthen the organisation. ...
09:40 PM, Dec 18, 2012
Priyanka Gandhi has begun a two-day visit to her mother and Congress president Sonia Gandhi's parliamentary constituency Rae Bareli. ...
05:00 PM, Dec 17, 2012
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday told party workers in his constituency Amethi to prepare for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. He said this during his visit to the constituency on Thursday, a visit that was met with protests. The communication came ahead of a big Congress meeting on Friday which will discuss the party's general elections strategy. Meanwhile, Rahul's sister Priyanka held meetings with party workers...
11:37 PM, Nov 08, 2012
Rae Bareli: In an apparent bid to galvanise Congress after its dismal performance in Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections in twin constituencies of Amethi and Rae Bareli, Priyanka Gandhi on Thursday held meetings with party workers in Rae Bareli. On the first day of her two-day visit, Priyanka, who is touring the twin Lok Sabha constituencies for the first time after the Assembly elections, held block-wise meetings of party workers up...
10:30 PM, Nov 08, 2012
Have the allegations and revelations about Robert Vadra irreparably damaged the Gandhi family's image? ...
09:45 PM, Oct 12, 2012
Robert Vadra came under heavy criticism after his post on Facebook which read, "Mango people in a banana republic." ...
11:59 PM, Oct 11, 2012
New Delhi: Sources in the realty giant DLF have said that anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal's allegations against the company are not going to impact its launch plans. "Nor are they going to impact the company's exercise to pay off its debts," the sources added. DLF hopes to receive Rs 2,227 crore by October-end from the Lodha Group for "Mumbai land sale". Sale Of Aman Resorts is also on track, they...
03:53 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Sagarika Ghose: Rare glimpses of the Gandhi family giving those very rare interviews to the press, the Gandhis almost never speak. In the wake of the allegations against him Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra today deleted his Facebook account after a controversial posting about India being a banana republic with mango men bringing charges. The Congress party though continues to strongly defend Robert Vadra. India's most powerful family is also...
11:39 AM, Oct 09, 2012
New Delhi: The spotlight is still on Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra over his deals with realty major DLF. Anti-corruption activist and India Against Corruption (IAC) member Arvind Kejriwal, who accused Vadra of getting an unsecured loan of Rs 65 crore from DLF, said that he has more evidence against Vadra which shows Vadra received many more such favours because of his proximity to the Congress high command. A day...
07:16 AM, Oct 09, 2012
New Delhi: BJP on Monday demanded an impartial and fair probe into whether Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had acquired a piece of land near Shimla in an improper manner. BJP Vice-President Shanta Kumar had written a letter to activist Arvind Kejriwal about a piece of land, located near Shimla, that was alloted to Priyanka Vadra and suggested that it should be probed if there were anomalies in the allocation. Asked if...
02:19 AM, Oct 09, 2012
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10:47 AM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: Entrepreneur and the ruling party president's son-in-law Robert Vadra now faces allegations of financial impropriety after anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal alleged at a press conference in New Delhi on Friday that construction major DLF gave an unsecured and interest-free loan worth Rs 65 crore to companies owned by him. Kejriwal and senior Supreme Court advocate Prashant Bhushan claimed that Vadra's companies allegedly used that money to buy seven...
08:35 AM, Oct 06, 2012
Activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on Friday targeted Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, accusing him of getting huge amount of unsecured loans from real estate major DLF and indulging in corruption. He, however, said he won't drag Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi's name in the controversy as he has no evidence against them. ...
07:46 PM, Oct 05, 2012
New Delhi: In perhaps an audacious political move, anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal on Friday accused Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra of illegal ties with the DLF group and thereby amassing huge properties. In a press conference along with his associates Shanti Bhushan and Prashant Bhushan, Kejriwal alleged that Vadra had used his clout in the Congress to help the DLF group in their business in various Congress-ruled states...
06:25 PM, Oct 05, 2012
Ending speculations that she could be getting ready to contest the 2014 General Elections, Priyanka Gandhi on Wednesday stressed that she was not joining politics. ...
11:59 PM, Sep 12, 2012
Rae Bareli: Ending speculations that she could be getting ready to contest the 2014 General Elections, Priyanka Gandhi on Wednesday stressed that she was not joining politics. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Priyanka said that it was a general practice for her to visit Rae Bareli and had nothing to do with her joining politics. She said, "I am not joining politics. There is nothing new about my interacting with workers in...
09:24 PM, Sep 12, 2012
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and sister Priyanka Gandhi distributed cycles to the poor at an event commemorating Rajiv Gandhi's 68th birth anniversary on Monday. This is an annual practice for the Gandhi siblings and they later posed with hundreds of the beneficiaries. President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh led the nation in paying rich tributes to late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 68th birth...
11:33 AM, Aug 22, 2012
New Delhi: Priyanka Gandhi may be heading for an active role in politics and is said to be set to take charge of her mother and Congress President Sonia Gandhi's Rae Bareli Parliamentary constituency. There was no official word on the issue but AICC office bearers including party general secretaries insisted on Sunday that Priyanka has always interacted with the people of the constituency in politically crucial Uttar Pradesh and...
08:35 PM, Aug 05, 2012
