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The guidelines says that Pradesh Returning Officer (PRO) will be the Polling Officer of their respective PCCs and shall be responsible for keeping order at the polling stations and to see that the election is fairly conducted.
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New Delhi: Former Jharkhand minister KN Tripathi’s nomination for the Congress presidential poll was rejected on Saturday, setting up a contest between party leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor. The three had filed nominations on Friday, the last day of the process. Addressing a press conference at the Congress headquarters here, AICC Central Election Authority […]
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Speaking to the media, Singh said, "Kharge is our senior and I have told him that I will be your proposer and my commitment is towards the Congress and the Nehru-Gandhi family."
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New Delhi: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Thursday joined the race for the post of Congress President. “Today I have come here to collect the nomination form and will possibly file it tomorrow,” Singh said outside his residence here today. The former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh met with Rahul Gandhi in Kerala at the […]
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Senior Congress leader and MP Shashi Tharoor will file a nomination for the post of party President on September 30, as per sources.
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Thiruvananthapuram: The ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ could achieve both “Bharat jodo” and “Congress jodo” as it could also unite Congressmen and women across the country around the party’s values and ideals as well as service to the people, senior leader Shashi Tharoor said on Tuesday. Tharoor, who is said to be contemplating running for the post […]
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Twitter officials were asked questions by the panel led by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Friday. The micro-blogging site also denied any data leak by the company.
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New Delhi: Advocates of national integration waived entertainment tax for ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’ while the “abettors of disintegration and disharmony” waive it for ‘The Kashmir Files’, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said on Tuesday. He stressed that tax incentives reflect the direction in which the government wants society to go. ‘The Kashmir Files’, which has found […]
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New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and member of G-23 group Ghulam Nabi Azad met party interim president Sonia Gandhi at her residence on Friday. Earlier, G-23 leaders, who have been calling for sweeping reforms in the grand old party, met on Wednesday to discuss the party’s debacle in the recently concluded Assembly elections in five […]
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Bengaluru (Karnataka): Stating that Congress is a perennial party and is deeply rooted in the minds of people, senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily on Friday said that that the Congressmen should change their attitude in order to bring it back to power in the country. The statement from Moily came after the dissident leaders […]
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New Delhi: A day after the High Commissioner of Singapore to India, Simon Wong was called by the Ministry of External Affairs over the remarks by the Prime Minister of Singapore during a parliamentary debate, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday slammed the move of the Centre and said that it should have handled the […]
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New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor renowned for his expansive vocabulary and penchant for “unheard” words like ‘floccinaucinihilipilification,’ which has led even the well-read make a run for their dictionaries, was on Thursday called out for spelling errors in a Twitter post. Union Minister Dr Ramdas Athawale pounced at the chance to school the Thiruvananthapuram […]
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Sangareddy: Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said it was time that Opposition parties came together on to a common platform to take on the ruling BJP in the 2024 elections. Responding to a question during an interaction with GITAM University students at Rudram, the Congress leader said, “Modi government has several failures […]
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New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday slammed the Centre over the Nagaland ambush issue and said that there should have been a discussion in the House but Home Minister Amit Shah and Defence Minister had walked out without taking questions. Speaking to ANI, Tharoor said, “We should have had a discussion. Home Minister […]
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Hyderabad: Even as the State government was taking up different tribal welfare programmes, the Centre sanctioned 17 Van Dhan Vikas Kendra Clusters (VDVKCs), which are set up in tribal dominated districts, during the last three years. The Van Dhan Vikas Karyakram is aimed at livelihood generation for tribals by harnessing the wealth of forest by […]
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New Delhi: The Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology has recommended that the Union government should not shutdown the Internet services in every case, saying that the ‘Internet is indispensable in everyday lives of citizens of the country’. In its 26th report tabled in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday on ‘the suspension of telecom […]
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New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor offered an apology after he posted his picture on the first day of the winter session of Parliament. Tharoor posted a selfie with six women MPs, including Trinamool’s Nusrat Jahan and Mimi Chakraborty, Congress’ Preneet Kaur and Jothiman Sennimalai, NCP’s Supriya Sule and DMK’s Thamizhachi Thangapandian and wrote: “Who […]
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New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday posted a selfie with six women MPs on Twitter with a caption:”Who says the Lok Sabha isn’t an attractive place to work?”, triggering a controversy with many netizens accusing him of sexism. Tharoor later apologised for offending “some people” and said the “whole selfie thing” was […]
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Hyderabad: The Congress launched a fire-fighting exercise on Friday to contain the raging controversy that erupted after TPCC president A Revanth Reddy called senior leader Shashi Tharoor a donkey and even sought his expulsion from the party. And what better way than to lay the blame on the doorsteps of the media! AICC Telangana incharge […]
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Hyderabad: TPCC president A Revanth Reddy’s comments against senior Congress MP Shashi Tharoor have not gone well with the party leadership in New Delhi and also leaders in the State. Bhongir MP Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, objecting to the TPCC president’s comments, tweeted: “Dr Shashi Tharoor is a renowned parliamentarian and highly regarded as public intellectual. […]
