New Delhi: Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi as well as party MPs, including Shashi Tharoor, were detained on Friday during the protest march against issues like inflation, GST on food items and unemployment. Congress leaders launched a protest from the Parliament to the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday. Protests were held at several places...

Amethi: The video of a man thrashing a minor girl mercilessly in Amethi has gone viral on social media, triggering massive public outrage. Following the outrage, police registered a case against the accused and arrested one person. In the video, a man is seen hitting the girl on her soles with a stick and two...

Priyanka Gandhi urges Modi not share dais with the Lakhimpur Kheri accused’s father at DGP Conference in Lucknow on Saturday New Delhi: A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi repealed the three controversial farm laws, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi wrote to him urging him to refrain from sharing the dais with Union minister Ajay...

Congress announces 7 pre-poll pledges as part of its Pratigya Yatra in Uttar Pradesh Barabanki: The Congress is bracing up for Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh next year. On Saturday, Congress general secretary flagged off the pary’s ‘Pratigya Yatra’ from Barabanki which will culminate at Bundelkhand. Two other such yatras will be taken out from...

New Delhi: Amid the ever-increasing prices of fuel, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi lashed out at the central government, saying that petrol and diesel were now more expensive than aviation turbine fuel (ATF). Taking at dig at the government, she said that the BJP government had promised that people wearing ‘hawai chappal’ (slippers) would travel...

New Delhi: A delegation of Congress leaders, led by party MP Rahul Gandhi, reached Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday to meet President Ram Nath Kovind over the Lakhimpur Kheri violence. A jeep, allegedly driven by MoS Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra had mowed down four farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh on October 3. A...

Lucknow: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi who was detained on her way to Lakhimpur Kheri, was released on Wednesday. Priyanka had been detained in Sitapur 2nd PAC batallion, from where she was released. The Uttar Pradesh government gave permission to Priyanka, Rahul Gandhi and three others to visit Lakhimpur Kheri. ADG (Law and order) Prashant...

Chandigarh: Punjab Congress leader Navjyot Singh Sidhu has warned the UP government of a protest march by the state unit of the party to Lakhimpur Kheri if the accused in Sunday’s killing of farmers is not arrested and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi is not released from illegal detention. In a tweet on Tuesday, Sidhu said,...

Lucknow: A day after the violence in Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh that left four farmers dead, an FIR has been registered against Ashish Mishra, son of Union Minister Ajay Mishra, according to available reports. The government has announced Rs 45 lakh and a government job to a family member of the four farmers who...

Lakhimpur Kheri: A day after a jeep allegedly ran over farmers and killed at least four of them, Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh has turned into a fortress, with heightened police deployment and suspension of internet services. Meanwhile, farmers have refused to perform the last rites of the dead until the guilty are arrested. They...

Congress leader Salman Khurshid has revealed that the grand old party will go for the Assembly polls due in Uttar Pradesh next year under the leadership of Priyanka Gandhi. However, the former Union minister did not reveal who will be the party’s chief ministerial candidate. The veteran leader of the Congress party and a former...

In a bid to woo voters in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress is planning a 12,000 km-long yatra through villages and towns of the state ahead of the Assembly polls due in the state next year. The announcement in this regard was made by Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra who will be leading the yatra....