The Latest Breaking News from Shashi Tharoor

Senior Congress leader and MP Shashi Tharoor is known for using long-winded, difficult-to-pronounce and rarely-used English words. While many are impressed, there are those who feel overwhelmed and intimidated. Some even feel the need to look up definitions in the dictionary. Like this man from Nagaland, who recently went for…

NEW DELHI: While leaders of the ruling BJP-led NDA are gloating over the budget presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday, some opposition leaders unexpectedly have also praised it.

Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge won the party’s presidential election on Wednesday. He was up against party MP Shashi Tharoor. The party’s election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry announced that Kharge had received 7,897 of the 9,385 polled votes and Tharoor 1,072.

Mallikarjun Kharge, a Gandhi loyalist, aims to lead fightback against Narendra Modi’s BJP

Mallikarjun Kharge, 80, defeats Shashi Tharoor to become the first Dalit Congress president.

India’s main opposition Congress party has elected Mallikarjun Kharge as its new president in a contest in which the Nehru-Gandhi family, which has led the party for more than two decades, did not compete

India's opposition Congress party declared veteran leader Mallikarjun Kharge its new chief on Wednesday, the first person from outside the influential Nehru-Gandhi family to hold the beleaguered party's presidency in 24 years.

MP Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said the president was the supreme authority in the Congress and whoever got elected to the post would decide on the way forward (for the party). Read more on Dynamite News:

Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday won Congress Presidential Elections against Shashi Tharoor. Read more on Dynamite News: