Union ministers Ambika Soni, Ashwani Kumar and AICC spokesperson Manish Tewari figure in the list of Punjab Pradesh Congress Coordination Committee that was finalised along with the lists of other state office-bearers by party president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday.

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi early on Wednesday visited the Bhatta Parsaul village in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida that has seen violence by farmers over land acquisition, leading to four deaths. According to a state Congress leader, Rahul Gandhi reached the village at 6 00 AM.

“Regardless of what the extremist elements of both sides want the world to believe, there is still hope for the Valley and Kashmiriyat,” said chief minister Omar Abdullah in a tweet soon after Aasha Jee became the first Kashmiri pandit woman to be elected a panch from the Muslim-majority Valley on Monday night.

Social activists fighting for enhanced punishment to the accused in the Bhopal gas disaster on Wednesday expressed dismay over the Supreme Court's order dismissing the CBI's curative petition and called it "another black day".

The announcement of the UP Pradesh Congress executive committee has started generating considerable heat in the party circles.
The 51-member committee is filled with regional imbalances and over 20 districts have gone completely unrepresented.

India has conveyed its "deep concern" to the Australian High Commission over the issue of depiction of images of goddess Lakshmi on swimwear, for which the swimwear label company has apologised to the Hindu community for hurting their sentiments.

The Congress is confident of forming governments in Assam and Kerala and expects to join a Mamata Banerjee-led government in West Bengal.
The feedback from the five states, after the voting, is encouraging for the Congress Party. Barring Tamil Nadu, the reports from Assam, Kerala, West Bengal and even Puducherry are on the expected lines, well placed sources said here on Tuesday night.

Voicing concern over adverse conditions faced by women in the country, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday said girls should be empowered and encouraged to take up leadership role — starting with their families.

Attacking the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre for its “step-motherly” treatment towards BJP- and NDA-ruled states, the BJP has charged the Centre with using constitutional institutions as “weapons” and “pressurising” state bureaucracy, thus “compromising the states’ interest. The party also passed a resolution focusing on good governance, corruption, strengthening the organisation, accountability and transparency and war against terrorism.

DMK MP Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV managing director Sharad Kumar on Wednesday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate here to seek another date instead of May 13 for their questioning in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation scam.