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Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and the leader of the party in the House, Mallikarjun Kharge, are likely to speak on it.

While participating in the debate in the Lok Sabha on the Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill, Shashi Tharoor had attacked the government saying there was a 'significant gap' between the government’s rhetoric and action.

Mallikarjun Kharge objected to him being invited as a 'special invitee' and said that the government was well aware that there is no such provision under section 4 of the Act.

Jayant Sinha had sparked a controversy after pictures of him felicitating men convicted of lynching a meat trader in Jharkahand went viral on social media.

The meeting assumes significance as the delegation is visiting the Prime Minister a month after it was denied permission by the PMO for the fourth time in a row, kicking up a huge political row.

Though there was no word from him about his next move, sources said he may join the TMC

Swami Agnivesh, a 79-year-old social activist known for his work against bonded labour, was slapped, kicked around and verbally abused in Jharkhand's Pakur town on Tuesday by a mob, which he said belonged to BJP-affiliated youth groups who accused him of...

According to police, the BJP workers including some women, raised slogans against Shashi Tharoor and waved black flags when he came to address a function.

Projecting Mayawati as the PM candidate, Singh had in his speech in Lucknow yesterday said Rahul Gandhi can’t be the Prime Minister because of her mother’s ‘foreign origin’.

The Karnataka CM cried in public claiming that he has swallowed the “poison”of being in a coalition government like “Vishankantha”, one of the incarnations of Lord Shiva.

The three-storied building fitted with CCTV cameras houses an air-conditioned meeting hall, offices of the party's various organisations, chambers for the party president and ministers from the district, and the puja room.

Modi during his speech in Azamgarh on Saturday had come down heavily on the Congress over its stand on triple talaq, asking if it was a party for Muslim men alone.

The prime minister had said the opposition was stonewalling the government's efforts to secure the life of women, especially Muslim women.

The Congress had posted a photograph of Modi and Sharif walking hand in hand on micro-blogging site Twitter and sought to know what the prime minister thinks of his former Pakistani counterpart, who was arrested in a corruption case.

Sources in both PDP’s rebel camp as well as in BJP have talked about an imminent announcement likely to be made right after the Amarnath Yatra, which ends on August 26.

On Wednesday, Yogendra Yadav in a series of tweets, said that a hospital run by his sisters in Haryana's Rewari was raided by Income Tax officials.