Addressing a 50,000-strong gathering here on Saturday, Congress president Sonia Gandhi spoke at length about how her party was sensitive towards Goa’s environment — something which the local Congress has been repeatedly criticised about, given the illegal mining scam.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi wrapped up his five-day tour of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday by exhorting the people to work towards a change in the upcoming Assembly elections.

Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare railed against the UPA government’s home minister at a rally in Freedom Park on Saturday where some 30,000 people had gathered to hear the Gandhian speak.

As a storm brews in the CPI(M) over party politburo member Brinda Karat sharing the dais with self-styled Gandhian Anna Hazare, party general secretary Prakash Karat came out in the open to defend her.
He justified her decision of joining hands with the BJP to participate at Anna’s show at Jantar Mantar on December 11.

Threat of a deadly disaster looms large over the city as about 996 highrises here do not conform to the fire safety norms, an increase of more than 35 per cent over the figure last year.

An employee of a Delhi-based finance company and his accomplice were arrested for allegedly cheating a woman of crores of rupees in a land deal, said the police.

In a tragic incident, a nine-year-old boy was shot dead when two inebriated persons resorted to indiscriminate celebratory firing at a marriage ceremony in southwest Delhi’s Jafarpur Kalan on Thursday evening.

Tribal women at the national convention on "Empowerment to Tribal Women" at the AICC office in New Delhi on Friday. — PRITAM BANDYOPADHYAY

Food minister K.V. Thomas appears to have won over some of the detractors of the National Food Security Bill, which will be placed before the Union Cabinet on Monday. His two-day firefighting has had mixed success: while the NCP appears

Both Houses of Parliament witnessed a second day of pandemonium on Friday, with the BJP insisting home minister P. Chidam-baram be dismissed for allegedly helping a hotelier, who was once his client, to get FIRs against him