Gauriganj (UP), Aug 23: Congress General Secretary and Lok Sabha MP from Amethi, Rahul Gandhi has appealed to youngsters to strike a balance between studies and sports.

He said this after inaugurating a three-day Kabaddi tournament at the Jawahar Navoday Vidyalay in Gauriganj on Friday evening.

Around 300 students from various schools of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand are taking part in the sports meet.

New Delhi, Aug 19 : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday blamed the "partisan" and "short sighted" policies of the Congress for the present crisis in Jammu and Kashmir.

The BJP spokesperson, Ravi Shankar Prasad, told a news conference here, "The politics and policies of the Congress in Jammu and Kashmir have been partisan and lacking in foresight.”

“The Congress'' policies have weakened nationalist forces and boosted the morale of the separatist forces," Prasad added.

Kolkata, Aug 7 : One person was killed today in firing between Trinamool Congress-backed Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee (BUPC) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) workers in Nandigram.

Meanwhile, the CPI-M has organised a 24-hour shutdown in Nandigram to protest against the killing of their local committee secretary, Niranjan Mondal.

There was fresh violence in Nandigram in East Midnapore District of West Bengal after Mondal was gunned down in an exchange of fire between the CPM and the Trinamool Congress activists at Kendemari of Rajaramchawk area on Wednesday afternoon.

Kolkata, July 26: The Congress high command has apparently failed to create a rift in Bengal CPI(M) over Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee’s role in connection with the trust vote which has given a new lease of life to the beleaguered UPA government.

Lucknow, July 18 : All India Congress Committee General Secretary and the in-charge of the party''s Uttar Pradesh affairs, Digvijay Singh and External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today separately refuted allegations of horse-trading of MPs made by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of Tuesday’s vote of confidence in Parliament.

Nagpur, July 18: Congress General