The Congress on Sunday accused the Election Commission of functioning as a department of the Bharatiya Janata Party and it was aiding the ruling party for 'vote chori'. Congress said conducting free and fair elections was the primary duty of the Commission. Talking to reporters in Odisha, Congress general secretary K.C. Venugopal said, We, the people of India, want a free and fair election from the ECI, which is the real duty of the Commission. However, the Commission has become a department o

Opposition slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party for letting Team India play against Pakistan in the Asia Cup and alleged the Centre chose money over the blood of Pahalgam terror attack victims. Opposition parties protested across the country, urging the public to boycott the match. Congress leader and deputy leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Gaurav Gogoi, charged the Union government lacks compassion and that money mattered to them most. The decision of the BJP government to go ahead with the Ind

Assam Congress leader and MP Gaurav Gogoi slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to Manipur and charged the only motive of the trip was to improve the prime minister's image. Slamming Modi's visit, Gogoi called the prime minister's visit unfortunate. He just goes there to improve his image rather than solve people's problems, Gogoi charged. Gogoi likened Modi's visit to the strife-torn Manipur to rubbing salt on wounds. The way he only focuses on his image, he rubs salt on the woun

A massive 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit Assam's Guwahati on Sunday evening, sending shockwaves as far as Bhutan and northern parts of West Bengal. The earthquake took place at 4:41 PM, with the epicentre said to be in the Udalgiri district, at a depth of 5km, the United States Geological Survey said in an X post.This follows a 3.5-magnitude quake that struck Assam's Sonitpur on September 2. TheNational Centre for Seismology (NCS) later claimed it was a 5.8-magnitude quake. Many residents reported