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TopicK.C. Venugopal

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Air India rejects Venugopal’s ‘plane on runway’ claim after flight diversion, MP cites captain announcement

Airline counters KC Venugopal, who was onboard, on his claim that flight made go-around due to another aircraft on Chennai runway. BJP says if false, allegation should invite no-fly list.

Congress alleges Centre & CPIM ‘compromise’ as RA Chandrasekhar takes charge as Kerala DGP 

Congress raked up 1994 Koothuparamba police firing case in which 5 DYFI activists were killed. Chandrasekhar was appointed as ASP in Kannur district just two days before incident.

Karnataka caste survey: What’s behind Congress high command’s call for a recount

The caste survey report was submitted to the state government last year, but it has not been made public, even though some portions have purportedly come out through leaks.

Kerala local polls ‘1st step to dethroning Pinarayi’, Congress steps up voter connect with door-to-doors

Though Congress-led UDF won 18 of 20 seats in Lok Sabha elections last year, the party in Kerala is mired in infighting and a lack of organisation at grassroots level.

Congress’s KC Venugopal wins by 63,000-plus votes in Kerala’s Alappuzha

LDF was angry with Congress fielding him since Alappuzha is lone Lok Sabha constituency in Kerala which it won in 2019. Currently, Venugopal is Rajya Sabha MP from Rajasthan.

‘How many women are there in RSS?’ Venugopal hits out at BJP, Yogi Adityanath in Rajya Sabha debate

K.C. Venugopal calls women's reservation bill Congress's 'child', reiterating what many senior party leaders have said. TMC MP Mausam Noor says, 'It is our bill.'

Congress to begin door-to-door Haath se Haath Jodo campaign on 26 Jan, launches ‘political’ logo

With the new campaign, which it says is different from 'apolitical' Bharat Jodo, Congress aims to reach every Indian household in 2 months. Its direct target — 'failures of Modi govt'.

Amid power tussle, Congress likely to maintain status quo in Rajasthan until Bharat Jodo Yatra

With Congress's Bharat Jodo Yatra to enter Rajasthan on 5 December, sources said the general mood of the party leadership is not to rock the boat in the state just yet.

MBAs, ex-SPG personnel, ex-Leftists, bankers — Meet Rahul Gandhi’s Congress ‘coterie’

Congress' 'coterie of inexperienced sycophants', that former party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad mentioned in his exit letter, includes professionals from largely non-political backgrounds.

Congress says it will have elected president by June ‘at any cost’ after stormy CWC meet

Ashok Gehlot & Anand Sharma scrap over some senior leaders’ demand for CWC elections. Congress general secretary K.C. Venugopal says some clarity is awaited.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.