Sources also said that Gandhi discussed India and America’s multi-dimensional partnership and strategic engagement.

Besides the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the leaders also discussed the organisational structure of the party in Punjab.

A five-judge Constitution bench headed by CJI today began hearing a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of Aadhaar programme and its enabling Act of 2016.

The Home Minister was referring to Congress president Rahul Gandhi's recent visit to Bahrain when he highlighted how job creation in India is at an eight-year-low.

Workers of both parties clashed reportedly after BJP supporters protested with banners and placards against the Congress president.

Adityanath said that had the Congress laid more emphasis on development, Amethi would not have languished.

Passport holders with ECR status would be issued a passport with orange passport jacket and those with non-ECR status would continue to get a blue passport.

Rahul Gandhi, who returned to India after visiting Bahrain, thanked that country's leaders and its people for their love and hospitality.

Under new rules, passport holders with ECR (Emigration Check Required) status would be issued a passport with orange passport jacket and those with non-ECR status would continue to get a blue passport.

With tears in his eyes, special CBI judge Loya's son plead NGOs not to politicise his death and leave them be.

First time after donning the mantle of the party chief, Gandhi is all set to pay a two-day visit to his Lok Sabha constituency Amethi from tomorrow.

In his brief statement, Rahul Gandhi said that all citizens who love the idea of justice and believe in the Supreme Court were looking at the developments, and therefore it was important that those were addressed.

In a statement issued here, the grand old party said that the “observations made by the honourable judges and the issues raised by them in the press conference and in the letter are extremely disturbing”.

The Congress also issued a statement where it said the issues raised by the four judges were "extremely disturbing" and have "far-reaching consequences for values we hold sacred".

Without disclosing what they were upset about, the four judges -- Justice J Chelameswar (the No.2 in the apex court hierarchy), Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Kurien Joseph and Justice Madan B Lokur, said that “they have been compelled to do this”.

Patole resigned from the BJP on December 8, a day before the first phase of the Gujarat elections.

It was on December 11 last year when Rahul Gandhi took over the reigns from mother Sonia Gandhi as the new Congress President.

"There is a good mix of experience and youth in the Congress party. We will present a new Congress party to you and a new vision to the country. You will see a dramatic change in the Congress party," said Gandhi.

The address is part of Congress chief’s interactions with Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs). Gulf countries have the biggest Indian diaspora of more than 35 lakh.

Gandhi, who will be a state guest of Bahrain, is also expected to meet King Hamas bin Isa Al Khalifa.