Digvijaya Singh made it official today - he will run for Congress president next month. He is up against Shashi Tharoor in the October 17 election for a new Congress chief, the first in over 20 years without a Gandhi in the top post. | Read more|
With Rajasthan MLAs loyal to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot making it clear that they will not accept Sachin Pilot in the top post, the Congress is faced with a major crisis. | Read more|
Barely two months after the Congress seemed to have staved off a defection bid, eight of its 11 MLAs led by top leaders Digambar Kamat and Michael Lobo joined the ruling BJP, reducing the opposition party to just three members in a House of 40. | Read more|
Several leaders and activists, who resigned from Congress following in Ghulam Nabi Azad's footsteps, met under former Jammu and Kashmir minister GM Saroori's leadership to ramp up support for the senior leader in his next endeavour. | Read more|
US President Joe Biden has signed a $700bn (£579bn) bill that aims to fight climate change and healthcare costs while raising taxes mainly on the rich. | Read more|
Congress MPs will meet today to discuss their strategy after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) sealed the office of the Young Indian in Delhi over a case linked to the National Herald newspaper. | Read more|
The police in West Bengal on Sunday placed under arrest the three Jharkhand Congress MLAs, who were detained in Howrah on Saturday, after allegedly recovering “almost Rs 50 lakh” from their vehicle, senior officers told The Indian Express. | Read more|
Demonstrations, protests, dharnas, fast or religious ceremonies can no longer be held in the precincts of Parliament House, a new circular by the Rajya Sabha Secretariat states. | Read more|
The Congress appears to have staved off a Shiv Sena-style revolt in Goa for now, but sources say possible defectors are in touch with the state's ruling BJP, a sign that the plan has not been junked. | Read more|
Zee News anchor Rohit Ranjan can't be arrested just yet, the Supreme Court said on Friday, following police cases over a doctored clip of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. | Read more|
Yashwant Sinha, the joint opposition Presidential candidate, filed his nomination today in the presence of several opposition leaders. He was flanked by NCP chief Sharad Pawar and former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who called the polls a "battle of ideologies". | Read more|
As per news report of NDTV, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had "endured false allegations" linked to the 2002 Gujarat riots silently for 19 years because the legal process was on, a day after the Supreme Court confirmed the then Chief Minister's exoneration. | Read more|
Outside the hotel in Guwahati where Shiv Sena rebels are staying, the Trinamool Congress staged a massive protest this morning. | Read more|
Amid a row over the alleged manhandling of the Congress workers during Wednesday's protests in the national capital, senior party leader Shashi Tharoor shared a video of Congress MP Jothimani on Twitter, in which she alleged that she was brutally assaulted by the Delhi police. | Read more|
It is not a birthday week that Rahul Gandhi, who turns 52 Saturday, would have preferred. Submitting himself to long hours of grilling by the Enforcement Directorate and taking time out to check on his mother who is in a hospital. | Read more|