Other additions include Chidambaram, Digvijaya Singh & Ambika Soni. The rejig comes as the Congress gears up to raise issues like farmers protests & Covid deaths during the Monsoon Session.
Ahead of monsoon session, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has called a meeting of the party’s Parliamentary Strategy Group to discuss key issues to corner the Modi govt.
The verbal exchange took place in Public Accounts Committee's first meeting since the second wave of Covid while Chowdhury was reading a suo-motu statement over India's Covid crisis.
Describing the pandemic situation as 'grave', Congress MP Chowdhury said there is a need to find a national solution to ease the lives of people suffering from the virus.
Bengal Congress chief Adhir Chowdhury says party approved tie-up with Left and it's the Left that brought ISF as a constituent, hits out at Anand Sharma for 'sabotaging' party’s prospects in the state.
Congress MP Ranjan said celebrities like Sachin Tendulkar and Lata Mangeshkar were being misled and asked if India was so weak that Greta Thunberg 'is being considered an enemy'.
Indian Secular Front, formed by Furfura Sharif cleric Abbas Siddiqui, and Congress have discussed a potential alliance in upcoming polls. But an old 'rivalry' has queered pitch.
Health secretary briefs opposition leaders at all-party meeting. Leaders express concerns over infrastructure and resources in place to roll out Covid vaccine in India.
Congress' Adhir Chowdhury wrote to Om Birla, saying Parliament needs to discuss ‘notable’ issues like the farmers’ agitation, Covid vaccine status, and economic slowdown.
In Medieval India, the late Prof Satish Chandra demonstrates how Muslim rulers in India quickly grasped that pristine notions of Halal and haram did not hold up to the realities of statecraft.
New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.
Tajikistan did not want to extend the lease because of apparent pressure from Russia & China over non-regional military personnel at the air base, it is learnt.
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
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