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Women's World Boxing Championships: 21-year-old Sonia storms into 57kg pre-quarter-finals with unanimous verdict
•Sonia, daughter of a farmer from Nimri village in Bhiwani district of Haryana, used her defensive style to good effect to emerge as the winner in a 5-0 unanimous verdict.
Sonia Gandhi to address first rally in 2 years: Karnataka's Bijapur has been a Nehru-Gandhi favourite for generations
Fp Staff •Almost two years after abandoning her poll campaign midway in Varanasi, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi will hit the campaign trail in Karnataka on Tuesday
Parliament Budget Session: Congress to move no confidence motion against govt in Lok Sabha today; Mamata to meet Sonia in Delhi
Fp Staff •Misgovernance and the central government's efforts to spread a climate of fear and oppression have brought together various parties irrespective of their differences in states, the Congress said
Congress plenary session: Sonia Gandhi accuses govt of being 'power-drunk', calls pre-poll promises 'dramebaazi'
•Sonia Gandhi launched a scathing attack on Modi, saying his govt was “power-drunk” and the pre-poll promises of combating corruption were mere "dramebaazi"
India is getting increasingly divided by 'narrow nationalism' as 'forces of darkness' seek to engulf it, says Sonia Gandhi
•Congress president Sonia Gandhi said that the country was getting increasingly divided in the name of "narrow nationalism" as "forces of darnkess" seek to engulf it
National Herald case: Delhi court allows Subramanian Swamy's plea to summon INC documents
Fp Archives •A Delhi court on Friday allowed a plea by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy and summoned certain documents pertaining to financial details of Indian National Congress (INC) for the year 2010-2011 in the National Herald case.
In Mumbai, Rahul Gandhi trains guns on Narendra Modi, strikes combative tone on GST
Fp Staff •Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi trained his guns on Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying he is surprised to see how swiftly public anger has grown against the BJP government at the Centre and in Maharashtra. He brought the deadlock on the BJP's ambitious indirect tax reform - the GST bill, back into focus saying the Congress will not relent unless the ruling party accepts its demands for tweaks in the proposed legislation. Rahul Gandhi is in Mumbai as part of a two day tour out west.
Congress at 131: A decaying zamindar family with servile courtiers out of touch with the world
Fp Archives •It is noteworthy that while other Congressmen have been mildly critical of the Emergency - Jairam Ramesh said it was a mistake because it enabled the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to enter the mainstream - the party's first family has been largely silent.
'We'll fight the Modi government politically': Congress set to launch all-out offensive against BJP
Debobrat Ghose •Though the Congress remained low-key on 19 December — the day the party President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi got bail from a Delhi court in the National Herald case, it has now decided to take the Narendra Modi government head on.
Is the BJP ‘match fixing’ survival of Congress by being arrogant or simply stupid?
Bikram Vohra •You almost get the ridiculous but valid feeling that the BJP is ‘match fixing’ the survival of the Congress. How else can you explain such a badly timed reward to Swamy and the handing over of a weapon to the Congress ...either arrogance or stupidity.