View: Stop the Left turn. Congress needs to woo the middle class back"Citizen empowerment through rights-based legislation (RTI, RTE, Lok Pal, FSA etc) was a smart strategy, but suddenly the Congress veered l...
23 Aug, 2020, 10.50 AM IST
Kumar Vishwas vs Arvind Kejriwal-Manish Sisodia: Rift widensSources from the two camps believed the strain in the friendship has hit a nadir. Bitterness has reached a point where a detente seems unli...
06 Nov, 2017, 02.57 PM IST
Mixed report card for Rahul Gandhi’s outreach amid new challengesFrom a nascent RTI cell to an energised All India Unorganised Workers Congress, Gandhi’s exercise is a collage of enthusiasm, confusion and...
18 Sep, 2017, 12.33 PM IST
Government against Opposition bid to send Whistleblowers Bill to select panelOpposition parties in Rajya Sabha today made a strong pitch for referring the key whistle blowers bill to a Select Committee while opposing...
07 Dec, 2015, 09.12 PM IST
Land Bill: With allies' and Opposition's united criticism, is PM Modi on backfoot for first time?Ever since the Centre promulgated land ordinance in 2014, the massive tide of popularity that PM had whipped up has ebbed somewhat.
09 Sep, 2015, 01.31 PM IST
Independent mechanism needed to fix salaries of MPs: Yogendra YadavIt was surprising that MPs themselves were moving a proposal to increase their salaries and perks, he said, adding, it was even more shocki...
04 Jul, 2015, 09.08 PM IST
Land acquisition is impossible under UPA’s act: Birender SinghChaudhary Birender Singh is the man in the hot seat with deadlock over the land acquisition legislation casting a shadow over two successiv...
16 May, 2015, 07.41 AM IST
Rahul Gandhi vows to oppose land bill inside and outside ParliamentGandhi drew a parallel between a daylight robbery and the law, saying an economist had told him that thieves wearing suits now strike durin...
12 May, 2015, 08.42 PM IST
'Gujarat Model balloon' will also deflate, says Rahul GandhiCongress leader Rahul Gandhi mounted a fierce attack on BJP, claiming it only believed in giving rights to Narendra Modi and not to the peo...
29 Mar, 2014, 07.51 PM IST
Rahul Gandhi’s first TV interview: Will defeat BJP, not afraid of Modi, says Congress VPTimes Now Exclusive: In his first TV interview Rahul Gandhi say, “The BJP has a PM candidate, it believes in concentration of power. I fund...
27 Jan, 2014, 11.30 PM IST
Sonia Gandhi asks partymen to be ready for 2014 battleSonia also blamed lack of a "sense of discipline and unity" among the reasons for the party's defeat in the four states.
18 Dec, 2013, 12.48 PM IST
Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik’s leadership made all the difference in reducing Phailin's damageOdisha CM Naveen Patnaik, who ordered the evacuation of a million from cyclone Phailin, has changed the Indian’s perception of government r...
15 Oct, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
Supreme Court ruling brings 5 RTI commissions' work to haltIn its order, the top court had said that commissioners in state and central information commissions should have a judicial background.
02 Apr, 2013, 04.04 AM IST
High courts fail to meet RTI deadline directive by CICHigh courts have failed to adhere to the Central Information Commission's directive to follow the Right to Information (RTI) Act rulebook.
05 Apr, 2012, 08.47 AM IST
- SC ruling clears decks for Cong to give new life to NAC under Sonia
The National Advisory Council (NAC), headed by Sonia Gandhi, is likely to be brought back to life more than three years after the Congress ...
29 Aug, 2009, 04.02 AM IST
Prime minister's post not vacant, says Anand SharmaMinister of state for external affairs Anand Sharma, among the new team of Congress spokespersons who will travel across the country presen...
03 Apr, 2009, 03.00 AM IST
'The ‘big mo’ of politics is with us'In an interview to ET, Minister of state for Commerce and Power, Jairam Ramesh spoke on campaigns, issues and why he feels the ‘the big mo’...
23 Dec, 2008, 02.43 AM IST