NEW DELHI (AFP) - India’s ruling Congress will fight the 2014 general elections under the leadership of party president Sonia Gandhi and octogenarian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a senior party leader said Saturday. The issue of whom the embattled Congress will project as premier has become ...
Congress chairperson Sonia Gandhi was recovering in intensive care after undergoing "successful" surgery in the United States, a party spokesman said on Friday. "The surgery is over," Congress Party spokesman Janardhan Dwivedi said, adding that the "surgeon had indicated that the operation was ...
The Gandhi family has been tainted by the Bofors kickback scandal since it emerged that their close family friend Ottavio Quattrocchi received around 5 million in commissions for his role in landing a $15 billion contract for the Swedish arms firm to supply howitzer field guns to the Indian Army in ...
KARACHI (APP) - President Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday evening had a telephonic conversation with Indian Congress leader Sonia Gandhi and felicitated her on election for the fourth time as the party president. Sonia thanked Zardari for the message of felicitation, says a statement issued here from ...
A BBC News presenter has been subjected to a deluge of personal abuse after fronting a documentary about one of the most controversial events in recent Indian history. Sonia Deol was forced to delete her page on the Facebook website amid a barrage of criticism from fellow Sikhs over her film about ...
In a stinging attack on the Left and BJP, Indian Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday said it was a "shame" that the two parties had joined hands in attacking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh using "bad and negative language". "It is a shame on the part of the BJP and the CPI(M) to attack Dr ...
India will give a "befitting reply" to last week's attacks in Mumbai and will not "bow before terrorism," the leader of the ruling Indian Congress party Sonia Gandhi said Wednesday. "We will never bow before terrorism. We will give a befitting reply," Gandhi said at a rally in Indian held Kashmir. ...
Intensifying its campaign in held Kashmir, the Congress will send Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, party chief Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul to woo voters in the remaining five phases of the ongoing elections. Star campaigner Rahul Gandhi arrives in the state Friday for meetings both in the Kashmir ...
Indian Congress president Sonia Gandhi will campaign in Karnataka today for the second phase of assembly election to be held on May 16. Gandhi will address public meetings at Koppal and Mangalore, according to party sources. A total of 66 assembly segments across 10 districts will go to polls on ...






