Anmol Saxena

Ex­perts say Rahul Gand­hi’s march is an ef­fort to re­vive for­tunes of a par­ty that dom­i­nat­ed In­di­an pol­i­tics for decades.

Priyan­ka Gand­hi, sis­ter of Con­gress par­ty leader Rahul Gand­hi and one of the youngest scions of In­dia’s most fa­bled po­lit­i­cal fam­i­ly, of­fi­cial­ly en­ters pol­i­tics ahead of na­tion­al elec­tions.

Naren­dra Modi’s com­bat­ive tone has won him le­gions of ad­mir­ers but a uni­fy­ing op­po­si­tion is con­fi­dent the prime min­is­ter is on his way out.

Rahul Gand­hi’s el­e­va­tion comes as the 132-year-old par­ty strug­gles to chal­lenge the po­lit­i­cal dom­i­nance of Modi’s BJP.

Forty-sev­en year-old Gand­hi fam­i­ly scion has emerged as the main chal­lenger to PM Naren­dra Modi for 2019 polls.

Gov­ern­ment claims de­mon­eti­sa­tion is a suc­cess but op­po­si­tion says the move caused job loss­es and eco­nom­ic slump.

Hin­du groups ac­cuse Hadiya, who con­vert­ed and mar­ried to a Mus­lim man, a vic­tim of ‘Love Ji­had’, now top court agrees to hear her ver­sion.

More than 55 per­cent of un­der­tri­als in In­dia are ei­ther Mus­lims, Dal­its or trib­als, ac­cord­ing to of­fi­cial data.

Demon­stra­tions are grow­ing in Gu­jarat state with Dal­its leav­ing dead cows at gov­ern­ment of­fices af­ter caste beat­ings.

Re­leased from jail on bail, stu­dent leader Kan­haiya Ku­mar de­liv­ers im­pas­sioned speech about what free­dom means in In­dia.