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Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram expressed concern over “no sign of promised” recovery after the National Statistical Officer (NSO) provisional estimates put India's GDP growth for the last quarter of the financial year 2021-22 at 4.1%, 0.7 percentage points lower than the February projections. The former Union minister said that the “most striking graph” of the NSO estimates is the quarterly growth rate of the last financial year, which shows a downward trend.

Chidambaram said the quarterly figures show that the growth rate is “weakening every quarter” with “no sign of the promised ‘recovery’.”

Arvind Kejriwal today strongly defended Delhi minister Satyendar Jain, who has been arrested in a money laundering case, and said the allegations against him are "completely fake".

"I have read Satyendar Jain's documents myself. All allegations are fake. The entire case is fake. If there was even 1% truth in them, I would have taken action long back. The truth always wins. They have slapped cases on so many of our MLAs, and on me. Satyendar Jain will also be cleared," Arvind Kejriwal said in his first video statement since the minister's arrest.

China on Tuesday said it remains India’s largest trading partner, countering latest figures published by New Delhi, which said India did more trade with the US than with any other country last year.

The Chinese foreign ministry said it is ready to take measures to advance normal trade with India.

India’s commerce ministry recently published data that showed that the US had surpassed China to become India’s top trading partner in 2021-22, reflecting strengthening economic ties between the two democracies.

The Indian data showed that in 2021-22, bilateral trade between the US and India stood at $119.42 billion as against $80.51 billion in 2020-21.

Political strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor, who had worked with Congress for the 2017 UP elections, has said that he will not associate with the grand old party in the future as it has spoiled his track record.

While interacting with some people and media during his state-specific political initiative ‘Jan Suraaj’ (Good Governance) from the residence of late RJD leader Raghuvansh Prasad Singh in Bihar’s Vaishali on Monday, the celebrated data analyst recalled his work with several political parties/leaders and how he helped them win 10 polls but faced defeat in only one poll and that is with the Congress in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.

The Congress’s list of 10 Rajya Sabha nominees released on Sunday has, as expected, led to heartburn among a section of party leaders with questions being asked about whether the leadership has already strayed from the spirit of the Udaipur declaration made two weeks ago.

On Sunday, the Congress announced its 10 candidates from seven states, renominating loyalists and MPs P Chidambaram and Jairam Ramesh, and denying berths to G23 leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma. The party also brought in leaders from other states to contest from Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Haryana. The omissions and commissions on the list have triggered another round of intense speculation, especially on the way forward for those who haven't made it.