LUCKNOW, India, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Indian authorities claim to have foiled a plot by an alleged militant group based in Pakistan to kidnap a prominent politician.

NEW DELHI, April 16 (UPI) -- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday came under sharp attack Monday for his comments lauding Rahul Gandhi, a member of the Nehru-Gandhi political family.

NEW DELHI, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- India's Congress Party will honor the late former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and his wife Sonia Saturday at the party's first meeting since its election win.

NEW DELHI, May 16 (UPI) -- India's Congress Party chief Sonia Gandhi will be the new prime minister of India, a senior party official announced Sunday.

NEW DELHI, May 13 (UPI) -- It took Atal Behari Vajpayee 46 years in active politics before he became the Prime Minister of India in 1998, the year Sonia Gandhi joined active politics.

NEW DELHI, April 2 (UPI) -- India's Chief Election Commissioner has asked political leaders to refrain from making personal attacks on each other during the upcoming election campaigns.

NEW DELHI, March 22 (UPI) -- India's opposition Congress party has said that Rahul Gandhi, grandson of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, will contest the upcoming federal elections.

NEW DELHI, March 17 (UPI) -- A namesake of Indian Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi says she receives dozens of phone calls a day from wannabe politicians.