Former J&K CM Omar Abdullah said Hizbul Mujahideen commander Reyaz Naikoos destiny was decided the moment he picked up the gun and adopted the path of violence and terror.

New or higher taxes are justified only when the economy is booming, the former finance minister said.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhis remarks come after the central government hiked excise duty and cess on petrol by Rs 10 per litre and on diesel by Rs 13 a litre.

Son of Congress legend and four times Kerala Chief Minister K.Karunakaran -- Muraleedharan told the media that the state has to bear with Vijayan for a year only.

Mufti was initially detained on August 5 last year when the Centre abrogated the special status of the erstwhile state and bifurcated it into two union territories -- Ladakh, and Jammu and Kashmi

Omar Abdullah was reacting to the Jammu and Kashmir authorities decision to extend the detention of the former chief minister by another three months.

Venugopal said it was due to protests by a large number of expatriates and their relatives as well as the general public over the past few days that the central government took the decision to br

The Congress party on Monday tweeted a 1:44-minute clip from the conversation which will be aired the next day.

While tackling the virus, think in terms of zones. While reopening the economy, think in terms of supply chains, Rahul said on Twitter.

The MLA from Nautanwa in Maharajganj district and 12 of his associates were arrested in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, on Sunday night and subsequently let off on bail, officials had said.

As per figures released by the state excise department, on the very first day of the opening of shops, people bought liquor worth about 225 crore, setting a new record.

An Army Colonel and a Major were among five security personnel killed in an encounter with terrorists at a village in north Kashmirs Handwara area two days back.

The Thiruvananthapuram MPs remarks come a day after the Home Ministry said plans to bring back Indians stranded abroad due the coronavirus pandemic have been chalked out by the government and the

The Congress on Monday had said its state units will bear the cost of rail travel of needy migrant workers stranded at their workplaces due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown.

A controversy had erupted on Monday after several opposition parties demanded that migrant workers should not be charged for the train tickets.

Rahul Gandhi has started a series of talk shows to speak about COVID-19 and how the country can come back on track economically. In the conversations he has stressed that India needs more testing

Sonia Gandhi said that the Congress party had asked for provision of free rail travel for migrant workers to their home-towns, but their demands had been ignored by the Centre.

The state can provide free treatment to the underprivileged without burdening its exchequer if it signs up for the Centres Ayushman Bharat Yojana, Ghosh noted.