Several leaders including PM Narendra Modi and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi visited her residence in Delhi to pay their last tributes. New Delhi: Three-time Delhi chief minister and Congress stalwart Sheila Dikshit, who gave the national capital its modern look, passed away Saturday afternoon at a private hospital here after suffering cardiac arrest. She was 81. Dikshit breathed her last at 3.55 pm at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, doctors said. She was brought to the hospital Saturday morning in a “critical condition with cardiac arrest”, a Fortis Escorts statement said. ItRead More

The CPI, the BSP and the NCP are facing the prospects of losing their national party status after their dismal performance in the Lok Sabha elections. New Delhi:The Nationalist Congress Party, the Trinamool Congress and the Communist Party of India face the prospect of losing their national party status following their performance in the Lok Sabha elections with the Election Commission Thursday issuing them a show-cause notice. The Commission has asked them to explain why their national party status should not be revoked, sources said. They have been asked toRead More

The first priority for the Congress should be to resolve the current leadership cirisis and to reinvent its identity as a credible alternative to the BJP. Why is the grand old Congress party facing mass erosion of its legislators and workers? The events in Karnataka, where 16 Congress legislators resigned and plunged the government into crisis, and in Goa, where 10 of its 15 legislators switch over to the ruling BJP, show the mistrust in the party, which is almost imploding. The erosion seems to be unabated. It all beganRead More

The Congress and the NCP have been in an alliance since 1999. It was only in 2014 state assembly polls that the two sides parted ways. New Delhi:The leaders of the NCP and Congress met on Tuesday to discuss the seat-sharing arrangement for the upcoming Maharashtra state assembly polls. The NCP has demanded an equal number of seats from the Congress in the polls, citing the drubbing of its alliance partner in Lok Sabha elections. In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the Congress won only one seat from the stateRead More

The Bharatiya Janata Party has never won the East UP seat, but this time, it is hopeful with Jaya Prada. Jaya Prada had won the Rampur Lok Sabha seat in 2004 and 2009 on SP ticket before joining the BJP. Lucknow:The Samajwadi Party (SP) may field former Kannauj MP and Akhilesh Yadav’s wife Dimple from the Rampur assembly constituency in the upcoming by-election. The seat fell vacant after SP MLA Azam Khan was elected to the Lok Sabha in May. Talks are on within the party to field Dimple fromRead More