Rahul takes Congress' reins from Sonia
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi was elected on Monday, unopposed to the post of the party president, marking a generational change within the party.
Rahul Gandhi
Adityanath's first test
The UP local body election results will be announced on December 1 and they promise to change the narrative in the run-up to 2019
Are the Gujarat elections a tipping point?
The upcoming elections to the Gujarat legislature promise to either change the narrative or cement it, but even the smallest change can prove deleterious for the BJP which is relying on its deep-rooted party mechanism
Is Rahul exempt from accountability?
Editorial: March 2017
Hardnews Bureau Delhi
Swept under the Carpet
On January 11 this year, a Supreme Court bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Amitava Roy dismissed the public interest litigation by Common Cause that demanded the constitution of a Special Investigating Team (SIT) to look into what is now known as ‘Birla-Sahara papers’. These papers contain an assorted set of spreadsheets, emails, diaries and notebooks that provide detailed accounts of the payments made to people holding public offices. This is perhaps the first case in which allegations of kickbacks have been made against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Congress: A Party in Shambles
Like Nero who played the lyre while Rome burnt, Rahul Gandhi is blissfully oblivious to the torpor and rot that have gripped the Congress
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
Congress: Down but Not Out
Conversations from ground zero of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections reveal a startling truth, the Congress party may have been on the downslide for some time now but any attempt to dismiss it completely would be imprudent
Abeer Kapoor Delhi
Will Akhilesh pass the litmus test?
While there is widespread consensus that the young Samajwadi Party chief has salvaged his image by distancing himself from the old guard, the opinion regarding his five-year rule remains as divided as ever
Abeer Kapoor Delhi
UP: Akhilesh looks set to 'Cycle' back to power?
The Samajwadi Party's alliance with the Congress will help them reap rich electoral dividends
Pradeep Kapoor Lucknow
Priyanka Gandhi not to campaign in UP Assembly polls
Lucknow: Even as both the Congress and the Samajwadi Party are negotiating for an amicable pre-poll alliance for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the candidates, particularly from the Congress