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India’s Congress party pledges to cut business red tape

New businesses would not require any government permissions in the first three years of operations, Gandhi said in a tweet addressed to “youngsters”,

Urmila Matondkar joins ‘secular’ Congress and hardliners are furious

The actress posted a photo of her with Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Instagram and thanked him for welcoming her into a party that "believes in secular fabric of our society and democratic set up of our (Indian) nation"

India’s Congress promises 72,000 rupees to poor if voted back

India’s main opposition Congress party will give 72,000 rupees ($1,045) a year to the country’s poorest families if it is voted back to power,

Veteran actor Shatrughan Sinha may quit BJP

Former Bollywood actor and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Shatrughan Sinha may bid farewell to his party, as per Indian media

Jobless millions to haunt upcoming Indian elections

A newspaper recently published what it said was an official report buried by Modi's government showing unemployment at its highest since the 1970s

Facebook toughens political ad policies in India

Facebook is toughening up the rules governing political advertisements in India to create more transparency ahead of the country’s general elections

Congress promises to scrape ‘triple talaq law’

Modi has said the action is necessary to empower women, but Congress said it unfairly punished Muslim men

Cows may eat into BJP votes in 2019 elections

Modi is trying hard to claw back support among India’s 263 million farmers and their many millions of dependents after the BJP lost power in December to the opposition Congress in three big northern states where agriculture is a mainstay

Modi’s populist budget to weigh on India’s next government

Economists fear some of the assumptions built into the math for those goals are too aggressive - especially its forecasts for strong tax revenue growth

Three women who could be Modi’s biggest nightmare

The firebrand chief minister of West Bengal state, Mamata Banerjee, and Mayawati, a former Uttar Pradesh chief minister - are also plotting to unseat Modi’s ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition by forming big opposition groupings

Modi’s popularity at all-time low; Rahul Gandhi closing in: poll

Rahul Gandhi, the main challenger to Modi and leader of the opposition Congress party, has seen his ratings rise from a low of 10 percent two years ago to his all-time high of 34 percent

Indian Congress leader Rahul Gandhi names sister Priyanka to party post

NEW DELHI: Indian Congress leader Rahul Gandhi appointed his charismatic sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to a senior party position on Wednesday that officials say...

BJP stares at biggest election loss since Modi came to power

Congress party could form governments in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and in Rajasthan

Modi is staring at election losses in big heartland states!

NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is staring at election losses in big heartland states, polls show, suggesting that farm distress and a...

Incoming members battle it out for best US Congress suites

WASHINGTON: One woman flexed her biceps and performed pushups, another thumbed her rosary beads, and several danced energetic jigs. Incoming members of Congress will...

New Muslim Congresswoman in push to end hijab ban in Congress

WASHINGTON: A Muslim congresswoman-elect has co-authored changes to a longstanding rule banning the wearing of head coverings on the US House floor, an effort...

Infrastructure, healthcare two areas where Congress can unite: Trump

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he envisaged Republicans and Democrats working together on infrastructure and healthcare after US voters delivered a split...

Rahul Gandhi courts arrest amid Congress protest, says ‘Modi is corrupt’

NEW DELHI: Indian opposition leader and Congress President, Rahul Gandhi, on Friday courted arrest along with top party leaders during a massive protest in...

US Congresswoman felicitates PTI chief on poll win

WASHINGTON: A member of the United States Congress, Sheila Jackson Lee, felicitated Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan over the victory in the...

States sue Trump over immigrant families as Congress quarrels

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK: More than a dozen states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its separation of migrant children and parents at the U.S.-Mexico...
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