A Joint Parliamentary Committee has recommended suspending the Prime Minister, chief ministers and other ministers who remain in custody for 30 consecutive days, replacing a proposed provision that would have forced them to leave office automatically. The recommendation marks a major change to the Constitution Bill, 2025, which seeks...
The Bharatiya Janata Party is poised to move within six seats of an outright Rajya Sabha majority, strengthening the ruling coalition’s control over parliamentary business ahead of the Monsoon Session. The BJP’s strength in the 245-member Upper House could rise to about 117 after three by-elections in West Bengal...
Iran said on Monday that its air defences had shot down a US-manufactured LUCAS one-way attack drone over the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, as Washington and Tehran exchanged another wave of strikes across the Gulf.The aircraft was “accurately hit and shot down”, Iranian authorities said, without disclosing...
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has accused the Samajwadi Party of seizing control of temples and diverting devotees’ offerings towards the construction of mosque walls, intensifying the political battle over the alleged theft of donations from Ayodhya’s Ram Temple. Addressing a gathering in Ayodhya on Saturday, Adityanath claimed...
American singer Mary Millben has praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s three-country tour of Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand, describing the reception he received as evidence of India’s growing diplomatic and economic influence. Millben said on Sunday that the engagements demonstrated how governments across the Indo-Pacific increasingly viewed India as...
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has accused the BJP of attempting to destabilise his government by engineering defections from the National Conference, alleging that legislators were offered cash, ministerial positions and assurances on restoring statehood. Abdullah made the allegation on Saturday while addressing National Conference workers...
The Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust has tightened controls over the counting of offerings at the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya after an alleged theft exposed serious weaknesses in the temple’s donation management system. New procedures include stronger identity verification, closer surveillance, stricter searches and digital monitoring of personnel...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was heckled by a far-right anti-immigration activist at his Melbourne hotel before the same protester unsuccessfully attempted to disrupt a major diaspora gathering at Marvel Stadium. The activist, identified as Hugo Lennon and known online as “Auspill”, entered the hotel where Modi was staying and...
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation has approved a 1.75 million metric tonne strategic petroleum reserve at Mangaluru, expanding the country’s emergency crude stockpile after disruption to shipments through the Strait of Hormuz exposed vulnerabilities in energy supply. The state-controlled explorer’s board granted in-principle approval for the project on July...
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will launch India’s campaign for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council for the 2028-29 term during a visit to New York, placing multilateral reform and global security at the centre of his diplomatic engagements. Jaishankar is expected to arrive in the...
Twenty-three employees assigned to count donations at Ayodhya’s Ram Temple have resigned as tighter controls and an expanding investigation disrupt the management of one of the country’s most prominent religious institutions. The departures have reduced the donation-counting workforce from more than 40 people to about a dozen, placing additional...
China’s colossal hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo has encountered a serious geological warning after researchers identified an active fault running through part of the development zone in Tibet. The Paizhen Fault, active since the Pleistocene epoch, has fractured surrounding rock formations and weakened the foundations of an area...
The Bharatiya Janata Party has nominated Sushmita Dev, Sukhendu Sekhar Ray and Prakash Chik Baraik for three Rajya Sabha by-elections in West Bengal, hours after the former Trinamool Congress leaders joined the ruling party. The nominations complete a rapid political transition for the three former MPs, who resigned from...
Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal has demanded a steep reduction in petrol and diesel prices, accusing the Centre of denying consumers the benefit of lower international crude oil costs. Addressing reporters on Thursday, Kejriwal said petrol should be sold at ₹82 per litre instead of the prevailing...
Billionaire Gautam Adani is expected to file a sworn affidavit in a New York federal court this week, declaring whether he knows of any promise, agreement, exchange or benefit connected to the US government’s request to abandon its criminal case against him. US District Judge Nicholas Garaufis has directed...
A surprise meeting between Sharad Pawar and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has triggered an acrimonious exchange within the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi, exposing widening differences between the Nationalist Congress Party and Shiv Sena. The encounter took place at the Vidhan Bhavan complex in Mumbai on Wednesday after...
Police investigating the alleged theft of donations from the Ram temple in Ayodhya have uncovered evidence that misappropriated money was invested in shares, lent at interest and moved through accounts belonging to relatives and associates of the accused. The expanding financial inquiry has prompted investigators to freeze about 30...