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Governors Assented 90% Bills Within Month Since 1970, SC Probed
The Centre told the Supreme Court that nearly ninety per cent of bills passed by state assemblies since 1970 were granted gubernatorial assent within a month, while assent was withheld in only about twenty cases of a total of 17,150 bills presented. The Constitution bench, led by Chief Justice...
Trump Moves to Attend Asia-Pacific Summit in South Korea
U. S. President Donald Trump is laying the groundwork for a visit to South Korea in October to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation gathering, where a possible meeting with President Xi Jinping is under consideration, although no definite arrangements have been made. White House advisers are discretely arranging for...
Governors must act within reasonable time, court warns
Governors must give their assent to bills passed by state legislatures within a reasonable time, the Supreme Court emphasised, cautioning that imposing strict deadlines for assent by Governors or the President threatens to embroil the judiciary in excessive oversight of the legislative process. The court warned that such rigid...
Trump sends F-35s, warns Venezuela over warplanes
Ten F-35 fighter jets have been authorised for deployment to Puerto Rico after President Donald Trump warned that any Venezuelan military aircraft that endanger United States forces “will be shot down”, escalating tensions across the southern Caribbean on Friday, 5 September. The fighters, to be based at a Puerto...
Modi Signals Openness Following Trump’s Trade Shift
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he is also “looking forward” to speaking with President Trump, hours after the US leader softened his rhetoric on trade negotiations between the two countries. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, declared that “India, and the United States of America, are continuing negotiations...
Goa Minister Claims Rahul Gandhi Once Shouted at His Mother
Goa’s Health Minister Vishwajit Rane has asserted that Congress MP Rahul Gandhi once stormed into a room and began shouting at his mother, Sonia Gandhi, while Rane’s father—former Chief Minister Pratapsingh Rane—was present. Rane made this claim during a podcast interview, a clip which was later shared on X...
Abstentions to back BJP, claims AAP
Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh asserted on Tuesday that parties abstaining from or boycotting the Vice-Presidential poll were effectively supporting the BJP, urging voters to see their absence as tacit endorsement. Parties’ Abstention in Vice-President Vote Fuels BJP Allegations underscored his comment on the stand taken by some...
BJP Claims Over a Dozen Opposition MPs Cross-Voted in VP Poll
A visibly troubled Opposition INDIA bloc faces questions about internal discipline after the Vice-Presidential election on 9 September 2025. The BJP has alleged that at least 15 MPs from the INDIA alliance or its broader support base voted for the NDA nominee, C P Radhakrishnan—a claim stemming from the...
Congress lashes Jagan as YSRCP backs Radhakrishnan
The Congress has sharply criticised YSRCP president Jagan Mohan Reddy for choosing to align with NDA nominee C P Radhakrishnan in the vice-presidential poll, accusing him of abandoning democratic forces in pursuit of personal safety over the state’s interests. Party leader Manickam Tagore declared that the people of Andhra...
Odisha Police widen RGF funding probe to 1991
Odisha Police have expanded their investigation linked to an FIR against Rahul Gandhi by asking the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation to furnish a year-wise account of all foreign contributions and detailed financial records dating back to its establishment in 1991. A formal notice issued by the Jharsuguda Police to the...
Alliance Maneuvering Deepens Bihar Seat-Sharing Gridlock
Stakeholders remain locked in fractious seat-sharing talks ahead of Bihar’s assembly elections. The entry of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and Pashupati Paras’s LJP faction into the Mahagathbandhan has heightened complexity, even as the NDA itself grapples with internal tensions and looming deadlines. The Mahagathbandhan’s seat-sharing becomes more complex with...
Navarro calls India’s Russia oil buys ‘blood money’
US President Donald Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro intensified his criticism of New Delhi’s purchases of Russian crude, describing the flows as “blood money” and alleging that India did not buy Russian oil in large volumes before the Ukraine war, a claim he repeated in an expletive-laden post on...
BJD and BRS Abstain, Strengthening NDA’s Vice-Presidential Position
Voting is underway today for the vice-presidential election, called after Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned on 21 July due to health concerns. With votes cast between 10 am and 5 pm at Parliament’s Vasudha chamber, C P Radhakrishnan of the NDA faces off against former Supreme Court judge Sudarshan Reddy, backed...
Treasury Warns of Pricey Refunds if Tariffs Are Overturned
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has warned that, should the Supreme Court strike down President Trump’s sweeping reciprocal tariffs, the U. S. government may be compelled to issue rebates amounting to roughly half of what has already been collected—potentially numbering in the tens of billions of dollars. Bessent spoke to...
Tharoor Rejects Suggestion India “Will Say Sorry” Over Russia Ties
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Sunday strongly countered US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s assertion that India will one day apologise over its stance toward Russia, stating categorically that New Delhi has “nothing to say sorry about” and will continue to exercise sovereign judgement. Tharoor rejects suggestion India “Will Say...
Bold Retribution: Kejriwal Demands 75 % Tariff on US Imports
Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “show some courage” by imposing a 75 % tariff on imports from the United States, in direct response to Washington’s 50 % levy on Indian goods. Speaking on Sunday, his demand, framed as “bold retribution: impose...
Top Court hears Bihar voter roll revision challenge
Supreme Court will today hear a clutch of petitions challenging the Special Intensive Revision of Bihar’s electoral rolls, a process the Election Commission says is designed to cleanse the rolls ahead of the 2025 Assembly elections. A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi is set to consider...
EC firmly rejects call to release polling-booth CCTV footage
The Election Commission has dismissed a public campaign urging the release of polling-station CCTV recordings as legally misguided, arguing that voter privacy and electoral integrity must remain shielded from misuse. The Commission stated that sharing such footage would conflict with existing law and the imperative to preserve voter confidentiality....
