ED takes him on remand Thursday night in the liquor license allocation case; his party planning nationwide protests
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Assam
Backlash grows over contentious India citizenship list
Almost two million people could be left stateless
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Video: What can India do to beat an economic slowdown?
After years of fast-paced growth, India’s economy is losing steam. In this country of more than a billion people, domestic consumption is one of the main drivers of growth but unemployment is rising and people’s purchasing power has taken a hit.
Congress party
Rahul, the Gandhi dynasty’s first failure
Congress has appeared increasingly tired in the past decade while Gandhi has struggled to overcome the expectations of being the latest flag-bearer for India’s equivalent of the Kennedy clan in the United States
Bharatiya Janata Party
Video: Indian opposition leader Gandhi looks to capitalize on Modi missteps
He’s the scion of one of the world’s famous political dynasties. Now Rahul Gandhi is in an uphill fight to unseat Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
India election 2019
Gallery: Seventh and final round of voting in India
Ending the world’s biggest election with 900 million eligible voters from Goa’s beaches to Mumbai’s slums and Ladakh’s Himalayan monasteries. Long queues formed outside polling stations in eight northern states electing the final 59 candidates to India’s 543-seat lower house.
Bharatiya Janata Party
Poor boy Modi becomes India’s nationalist powerhouse
Doubts have been expressed over Narendra Modi’s economic reforms and businesses still complain about the sudden cancellation of high-value banknotes in 2016 in a bid to combat the black-market economy
India election 2019
Gallery: Voting underway in 59 parliamentary seats
Phase six of India’s general elections, which includes the capital New Delhi votes Sunday’s penultimate round of India’s almost seven-week-long election, which wraps up on May 19.
Bihar
In pictures: Indian Lok Sabha election 2019 phase 4 voting underway
Indians have already voted in three out of the seven phases of the mega national election which began on April 11.
Bharatiya Janata Party
Bollywood stars out in force Urmila Matondkar’s Mumbai North constituency
Several Indian corporate chieftains such as Anil Ambani, Adi Godrej and HDFC chairman Deepak Parekh also cast their votes early
India election 2019
In pictures: Voting begins in second phase of the India’s election 2019
Nearly 100 constituencies in 13 states go to the polls today in the second round of the seven-phase election that began on April 11.
Bharatiya Janata Party
In pictures: Voting begins in the world’s biggest election – Indians head to the polls
Some 900 million Indians can vote between April 11 and May 19 from the troubled snowy peaks of Kashmir to Rajasthan’s deserts and the tropical Andaman Islands.
Bharatiya Janata Party
Modi favourite as India’s 900m voters start six-week election process
Thousands of parties and candidates will run for office between now and May 19 in 543 constituencies across the nation of 1.3 billion people, with results not due until May 23
Bharatiya Janata Party
India announces poll dates as Modi battles for majority
Nearly 900 million voters are entitled to vote in the general elections, billed as the biggest democratic exercise in the world
Bharatiya Janata Party
Three reasons why Rahul Gandhi is making a political resurgence
The party president is the leading figure in the rising popularity of the Indian National Congress (INC).
Dubai
Video: Why did Rahul Gandhi visit Dubai?
After over a decade of failures, the scion of India’s most storied dynasty might finally have learned the art of politics
Bharatiya Janata Party
Rahul Gandhi: from sub-par to rock star
After over a decade of failures, the scion of India’s most storied dynasty might finally have learned the art of politics