Sonia, PM to leave for Hyderadabad Friday

October 2nd, 2009 HYDERABAD - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi Friday night assured full support to Andhra Pradesh in tackling the flood situation that has turned alarming. Both Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi spoke to Chief Minister K.

September 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi will leave for Hyderabad Friday to attend the funeral of Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy.

September 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress President Sonia Gandhi held a meeting with Defence Minister A.K. Antony and senior party leader Ahmed Patel on Wednesday evening.

August 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Faculty members of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) in Delhi went on mass casual leave on Tuesday protesting disparities in pay. Earlier, professors at IIT-Madras went on a mass causal leave on Friday, while their colleagues in IIT-Bombay boycotted classes on Monday.

July 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Monday called on Congress president Sonia Gandhi at her residence here and discussed several issues, including cross-border terrorism and Indo-US relations. Clinton went to Gandhi's residence at 10, Janpath, after meeting Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K.

June 11th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Congress president and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi arrived in Rae Bareli Thursday with her daughter Priyanka to a rousing welcome by supporters. This is Sonia's first visit to her parliamentary constituency after last month's Lok Sabha elections.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Saturday rang up Prime Minister Manmohan Singh congratulating him as India's ruling coalition was on its way to victory in the Lok Sabha elections. According to sources in the Prime Minister's Office, Manmohan Singh is expected to call on Sonia Gandhi later in the evening when all results of the election are known.

May 2nd, 2009 JAIPUR - Congress president Sonia Gandhi Friday said various leaders, who claim to be prime ministerial candidates, are 'power hungry' and are 'least bothered' about the welfare of the people. 'Every leader of these fronts seems to be hungry for power and least bothered about welfare of the country and people.

April 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - It was the first political rally of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in Delhi since campaigning for the 2009 general elections began. And it was held on the hottest April day in the capital in over 50 years.

April 24th, 2009 RAJKOT - Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday slammed the Gujarat Government for dilly-dallying over advancing low interest loan to farmers. Sonia Gandhi termed the BJP-ruled State Government's attitude as pro-capitalist at the cost of the poor and rural folks.

April 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress party on Sunday welcomed the Election Commission's (EC) decision to reject the demand for disqualification of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi as a Member of Parliament for receiving a foreign award. "We welcome the EC's decision.

April 6th, 2009 RAE BARELI - Congress president Sonia Gandhi owns neither a car nor a house in India but she has an ancestral home in Italy, according to papers she submitted Monday while filing her Lok Sabha nomination here. She submitted an affidavit to the district magistrate, stating the Italian house was valued at Rs.1.8 million (Rs.18.02 lakh).

March 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Shashi Tharoor has been appearing on TV talk shows taking questions ranging from what he wrote about Congress president Sonia Gandhi in a book to his plans for the Thiruvananthapuram constituency. In one talk show, Tharoor, who has lived in the US for the most part of his life, was asked if he is a 'US agent'.

March 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - United Progressive Alliance Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday played Holi with physically and mentally challenged children here. A large number of children from the Masoom Special School, visited 10, Janpath, the official residence of Sonia, to celebrate the festival.

February 9th, 2009 BHOPAL - Film director Prakash Jha Tuesday denied that the role played by Katrina Kaif in his 'Rajneeti' was based on Congress president Sonia Gandhi's political career. 'It (Katrina's character) has nothing to do with either the life or political career of Sonia Gandhi', Jha said here.