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Police guard CJP founder’s family home
Police have stationed personnel outside the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar residence of Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the online satirical movement Cockroach Janta Party, after the group’s sharp rise on social media turned his family home into a point of public attention. The protection has been arranged at the MIDC Waluj area...
US-Iran framework advances as Hormuz pressure rises
Washington and Tehran moved closer to a possible framework aimed at lowering military tensions and reopening the Strait of Hormuz, after President Donald Trump said a peace understanding had been “largely negotiated” while Iran indicated that major gaps still needed to be closed.The diplomatic push gathered pace over the...
Udhayanidhi targets Congress over BJP gains
Udhayanidhi Stalin has sharpened the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s attack on the Congress party, accusing its former ally of helping the Bharatiya Janata Party’s electoral advance more than Prime Minister Narendra Modi or Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The Leader of the Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Assembly made the...
Ajmer clerics seek national status for cow
Priests linked to Ajmer Dargah Sharif have urged the Centre to declare the cow the national animal and impose a nationwide prohibition on its sale, slaughter and export of beef, placing one of the country’s most prominent Sufi shrines at the centre of a sensitive debate days before Eid-ul-Azha....
Legal groups challenge CJI remarks on green cases
A widening group of lawyers, academics, researchers, activists and former civil servants has urged Chief Justice of India Surya Kant to retract remarks made by a Supreme Court Bench about environmental litigants, arguing that the comments could weaken public-interest scrutiny of large projects. The intervention follows observations made on...
CPM questions Kerala voter roll revision
Kerala’s electoral battle has moved from polling booths to the credibility of the voter list, with the CPM alleging that the Election Commission handled the Special Intensive Revision of rolls in a manner that favoured the United Democratic Front during the Assembly election process.The charge has sharpened after the...
Court widens judge contempt row
Delhi High Court has issued notices to Aam Aadmi Party leader Gopal Rai and journalist Saurav Das on a plea seeking criminal contempt action over allegations that they joined a coordinated social media campaign targeting Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma during proceedings linked to the Delhi excise policy case. A...
VCK move sharpens Tamil Nadu split
Tamil Nadu’s ruling coalition faced fresh strain on Friday after the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi and the Indian Union Muslim League joined the cabinet led by Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay, triggering a sharp exchange with the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam over loyalty, mandate and post-poll bargaining. The confrontation marked a...
Fuel prices rise as crude shock deepens
Petrol and diesel prices rose by up to 91 paise a litre on Saturday, the third increase in less than 10 days, as state-owned fuel retailers moved to recover part of the losses caused by elevated crude costs linked to the West Asia conflict. Delhi’s petrol price climbed by...
BJP eyes opening after DMK split
New Delhi’s ruling establishment is testing whether the collapse of the DMK-Congress partnership in Tamil Nadu can be converted into issue-based cooperation in Parliament, where every bloc of regional votes matters on constitutional amendments, federal questions and the next presidential election. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s calculation rests on a...
Mamata moves to steady KMC crisis
Mamata Banerjee has called Trinamool Congress councillors of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation to her Kalighat residence as a dispute over civic notices to properties linked to Abhishek Banerjee widened into a confrontation over who controls the city’s municipal administration. The meeting follows signals from Mayor Firhad Hakim that he...
Hormuz crossings signal cautious diplomatic opening
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has coordinated safe passage for 26 vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, offering the clearest sign yet of a controlled easing in one of the world’s most sensitive maritime chokepoints since the Gulf conflict began on February 28. The passage, completed within a 24-hour window, included...
Bengal moves to fast-track border deportations
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has ordered police to hand over detained infiltrators directly to the Border Security Force, marking a sharp administrative shift in the state’s handling of illegal cross-border movement from Bangladesh. Adhikari announced the mechanism at the state secretariat, Nabanna, on Wednesday, saying people identified...
New York speech deepens India Pakistan clash
Pakistani senator Rana Mahmood-ul-Hassan’s combative remarks at a political gathering in New York have sharpened an already tense diplomatic exchange with India, drawing criticism across social media and among foreign policy observers after video clips showed him using threatening language and repeatedly invoking Kashmir. The speech, delivered at a...
Tharoor sees youth warning in CJP surge
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has said the rapid rise of the satirical Cockroach Janta Party reflects a deeper political message from young voters who feel ignored by established parties, arguing that the Opposition should treat the online movement as a warning as well as an opening. The Thiruvananthapuram MP...
Fresh plea widens Bhojshala legal battle
A fresh legal move by Hindu petitioners has widened the Bhojshala dispute in Dhar, days after the Madhya Pradesh High Court declared the ASI-protected complex a temple dedicated to Goddess Vagdevi, also known as Saraswati. Two petitioners from the Hindu side have approached the Archaeological Survey of India seeking...
Court keeps Bengal cattle rules intact
Calcutta High Court refused to stay West Bengal’s order regulating animal slaughter ahead of Eid al-Adha and directed the state government to decide within 24 hours on requests for exemption under the state’s animal slaughter law. A division bench presided over by Chief Justice Sujoy Paul left the question...
Trinamool faces strain after Bengal poll setback
Trinamool Congress is confronting visible organisational strain after its defeat in the 2026 Bengal assembly elections, with poor attendance at its first major protest and coordinated resignations by councillors in two party-run municipalities deepening questions over morale, discipline and local control. Only 36 of the party’s 80 MLAs joined...
