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AAP faces fresh Punjab corruption storm
Punjab’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party has been pushed into a sharper political crisis after Leader of the Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa said the Enforcement Directorate raids on minister Sanjeev Arora and his arrest had exposed what he called deepening corruption concerns around the state government. Arora, 62, who holds...
Labour revolt deepens after poll rout
London — Keir Starmer is battling the most serious crisis of his premiership after Labour’s heavy local and devolved election losses triggered open calls inside the party for him to resign and raised the prospect of a formal leadership challenge. The Prime Minister has insisted he will not step...
Mamata faces cold shoulder in Bengal
Mamata Banerjee’s call for a broad anti-BJP front in West Bengal has run into a firm rebuff from the Congress, the Left Front and CPI-ML, deepening the Trinamool Congress’s isolation after its sharp defeat in the Assembly election and the formation of the state’s first Bharatiya Janata Party government....
Dutta praise deepens Trinamool unease
Suspended Trinamool Congress spokesperson Riju Dutta has intensified the party’s post-poll turmoil in West Bengal by praising Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari and openly questioning the leadership of Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee after the party’s steep Assembly defeat. Dutta’s remarks, made in Kolkata on Sunday, came a day after...
Baramati crash exposes airfield safety gaps
A preliminary investigation into the Learjet crash that killed Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and four others has put the spotlight on gaps in weather reporting, runway infrastructure and regulatory oversight at smaller airfields. The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau released its preliminary report on Saturday, February 28, a...
Modi urges household fuel restraint
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged citizens and businesses to revive work-from-home practices, curb petrol and diesel use and defer non-essential gold purchases for a year as the Middle East war pushes crude prices higher and threatens to strain India’s import bill. Addressing a public meeting in Hyderabad on...
Vijay centralises power in Tamil Nadu
Chennai witnessed a striking transfer of authority on Sunday as Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam founder C Joseph Vijay took oath as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, capping four days of intense bargaining after a fractured Assembly verdict and immediately signalling that decision-making in the new government would rest firmly with...
Modi balances outreach with Congress attack
Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated C Joseph Vijay after he took oath as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister on Sunday, pairing a message of cooperation with a sharp political attack on the Congress over its decision to back the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam government after years of partnership with the DMK....
Vijay begins rule with welfare sweep
Vijay took charge as Tamil Nadu chief minister on Sunday with a welfare-heavy first order covering 200 units of free domestic power, a special anti-drug task force, and a women’s safety force backed by a dedicated helpline. The Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam founder was sworn in at the Jawaharlal Nehru...
Adhikari opens BJP era in Bengal
West Bengal is poised for its sharpest political turn in decades as Suvendu Adhikari prepares to take oath as the state’s first Bharatiya Janata Party chief minister, a development that ends 15 years of Trinamool Congress rule and places the BJP at the centre of power in Kolkata for...
AIMIM councillor faces TCS case scrutiny
Police in Nashik have widened the probe into the TCS workplace harassment and alleged conversion case by naming Abdul Mateen Patel, an AIMIM councillor from Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar, as an accused for allegedly sheltering former employee Nida Khan while she was evading investigators. Patel, a councillor from Naregaon, was...
VCK backing edges Vijay towards power
Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi’s two legislators are set to become decisive in Tamil Nadu’s government formation, with the party expected to announce support on Saturday for C. Joseph Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam after days of intense negotiations following a fractured Assembly verdict. The move, if formalised, would give Vijay the...
Trump tariff drive hits legal wall
President Donald Trump’s tariff offensive has suffered a sharp courtroom defeat after a federal trade court ruled that his 10 per cent global import surcharge exceeded the authority granted to the White House under a 1970s trade law. A divided three-judge panel of the United States Court of International...
Raja Subramani set for defence apex
New Delhi has named Lieutenant General N. S. Raja Subramani as the next Chief of Defence Staff, placing a former Vice Chief of Army Staff and National Security Council Secretariat insider at the centre of India’s higher defence management. The appointment, announced on 9 May 2026, will take effect...
Left backs Vijay amid DMK charge
CPI general secretary M. A. Baby has defended the party’s decision to support actor-politician C. Joseph Vijay in Tamil Nadu’s government formation battle, arguing that the Left could not endorse any arrangement that placed the AIADMK within reach of power while it remained aligned with the BJP-led National Democratic...
Vijay’s oath wait deepens in Chennai
Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar has not cleared Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam chief C. Joseph Vijay’s bid to take oath as Tamil Nadu chief minister on Saturday, with Raj Bhavan unconvinced that he has established a reliable majority in the 234-member Assembly. The delay has pushed Tamil Nadu’s government-formation battle into...
Kapur trust feud moves to mediation
Nearly a year after businessman Sunjay Kapur died while playing polo in England, the dispute between his widow Priya Sachdev Kapur and his mother Rani Kapur over the RK Family Trust has moved from open courtroom confrontation to court-monitored mediation, with former Chief Justice of India D. Y. Chandrachud...
Stalin lets allies weigh Vijay offer
Tamil Nadu’s unsettled verdict has pushed the DMK’s smaller allies into the centre of government-formation talks after VCK and Left party leaders met Chief Minister M K Stalin to discuss whether they should back C Joseph Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam. Stalin is understood to have told the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal...
