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Mallikarjun Kharge succeeds Sonia Gandhi at the grand old partys highest office (PTI/R Senthil Kumar)

AA Edit | Many challenges loom for Kharge as state polls near

Conventional wisdom has it that the Congress cannot survive without the Gandhis at the helm.

21 Oct 2022 1:00 AM IST

Lucknow: A truck driver prepares his meal on a roadside at Lucknow - Agra expressway during the nationwide lockdown in the wake of deadly coronavirus pandemic, in Lucknow. PTI photo

Patralekha Chatterjee | Why so prickly? Is there a plot to defame...

India's officialdom rubbished the findings and called the GHI 2021 assessment of India as shocking

21 Oct 2022 12:53 AM IST

Sterlite Copper factory at Thoothukudi in south Tamil Nadu. (DC file photo)

AA Edit | Sterlite probe: Spare no one

Will any probe be brave enough to investigate and pinpoint from where the order came - Chennai or perhaps New Delhi?

21 Oct 2022 12:20 AM IST

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi greeting newly elected party president Mallikarjun Kharge in New Delhi. (AP)

Sunil Gatade | The right man at the right time for the Congress

Right now, the fact is that the Congress is down in the dumps and can only go up.

21 Oct 2022 12:15 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Liz Truss addresses the media in Downing Street in London, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022. Truss says she resigns as leader of UK Conservative Party. (Photo: AP)

Liz Truss resigns as British Prime Minister

She has been in office for just 45 days - the shortest tenure of any British prime minister

20 Oct 2022 7:26 PM IST

The Territorial Army soldiers keep a vigil on the hills for safe train movement at the vital railway project in Manipur. (Photo by arrangement)

Terriers, the unsung heroes of key rail project in Manipur

The arrival of the train in the remote location brought cheers to the entire people of South East region of Manipur

20 Oct 2022 1:27 PM IST

Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati. (PTI Photo)

Congress making Dalits 'scapegoats': Mayawati after Kharge elected...

Considered a loyalist of the Gandhis, Kharge will take over as the Congress president on October 26

20 Oct 2022 1:07 PM IST

Elon Musk (AP file image)

Musk says he's 'excited' about buying Twitter, but overpaying

Twitter had filed a lawsuit to hold Musk to the terms of the deal he inked after the Tesla chief sent word he was...

20 Oct 2022 10:44 AM IST

Sasikala had been staying in Chennais T Nagar area after returning to the city in February. (Photo: File/PTI)

AA Edit | Jaya probe was shoddy, its results will not stick

Could the commission have not cleared its doubts by speaking to her directly on her role?

20 Oct 2022 1:27 AM IST

Chinas President Xi Jinping speaks during the opening session of the 20th Chinese Communist Partys Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 16, 2022. - The effect was achieved through varying the lens focal length. (Photo by Noel CELIS / AFP)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | After 60 years: Beijing still focused on...

While China has started issuing visas to a few Indian students to return to their classes in that country, there are...

20 Oct 2022 1:24 AM IST

Union minister of state for personnel Jitendra Singh asked the states to spare more IAS, IPS and IFoS officers for Central deputation (Photo | PTI)

Dilip Cherian | Deputation blues for Centre: IAS, IPS officers shy...

The Centre has to confront a shortage of 1,472 IAS officers and 864 IPS officers.

20 Oct 2022 1:21 AM IST

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi greeting newly elected party president Mallikarjun Kharge in New Delhi. (AP)

Mallikarjun Kharge, a Gandhi family loyalist, becomes new Congress...

While the Gandhis welcomed the new party chief, Tharoor complained of 'serious irregularities' in the conduct of the...

19 Oct 2022 2:59 PM IST