Topic: Sonia Gandhi

Mover & shaker

Pulok Chatterjee, perceived as being close to Sonia Gandhi, has joined the Prime Minister's Office. His brief is to get things moving. Santosh...

Major websites face prosecution in India

Court summons Google, Facebook India demands web censorship India web censorship plan draws fire . Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other websites are...

Hackers deface profile of India's Sonia Gandhi

Hackers broke into the official website of India's ruling Congress party on Friday and defaced the profile page of party president Sonia Gandhi with a pornographic message.The attack coincided with Gandhi's 65th birthday and came just days after the ...

Analysis: Behind India's reform fiasco, a party in crisis

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Returning to India from a summit in Bali last month, Manmohan Singh was cheerful and determined: once dubbed "the leader other leaders love," he'd enjoyed meeting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and President Barack Obama, one of his biggest ...

Online uproar as India seeks social media screening

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has urged social network companies including Facebook, Twitter and Google to remove offensive material, unleashing a storm of criticism from Internet users complaining of censorship in the world's largest democracy.Telecoms and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal ...
AFP/Getty Images. Golda Meir. . It is surely time to recognize what an immense improvement has been wrought in world standards of governance by the...

India's Sonia Gandhi gives first speech post-surgery

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Sonia Gandhi, head of the ruling Congress party and India's most powerful politician, on Tuesday gave her first speech since undergoing surgery for an undisclosed illness as she rallied party workers behind her son ahead of crucial state ...

Sickness delays Sonia Gandhi's return in India

Poor health has forced Sonia Gandhi, president of India's ruling Congress party, to cancel plans Wednesday for her first public speech since undergoing surgery in August, a party spokesman said.Gandhi was expected to signal her return to party business by ...

India's Gandhi cancels first rally since illness

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's most powerful politician, Sonia Gandhi, has canceled what would have been her first public address since undergoing surgery for an undisclosed illness, highlighting speculation about her ability to run the ruling Congress party.Gandhi was due to ...

Rahul Gandhi warns India about globalisation

Rahul Gandhi, widely seen as India's prime minister-in-waiting, has sounded a stark warning about globalisation, saying it "excludes as much as includes".The scion of India's Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty, Gandhi has been pursuing a pro-poor agenda as he campaigns for ...