Madhya Pradesh’s Anti-Terror Squad has arrested Mohammad Faraz, a coaching class teacher from Bhopal, for allegedly using encrypted social media groups to recruit and radicalise youths for a network investigators say was linked to Pakistan-based handlers. Faraz, 35, was picked up from the Qazi Camp area of Old Bhopal...
Nine Bangladeshi citizens remained stranded in no-man’s land along the India-Bangladesh border in Assam’s Mankachar sector after Border Guard Bangladesh personnel declined to take them back, leaving a local flag-meeting process deadlocked. The group, which includes women and children, was found on Sunday between the two border positions in...
Dhaka summoned New Delhi’s deputy high commissioner and chargé d’affaires on Monday after a senior adviser to Prime Minister Tarique Rahman said he was humiliated during immigration screening at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. Pawan Badhe was called to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka, where officials conveyed...
Thousands of protesters have kept Rawalakot at the centre of a widening confrontation in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, extending a week of demonstrations against the Pakistani government, security forces and the territory’s political order. Crowds gathered again in the Poonch district city as the agitation moved beyond an immediate dispute over...
Dehradun’s Bairagiwala village remained under heavy security after a 44-year-old local BJP functionary was killed and three members of his family were injured in an attack allegedly linked to a dispute over irrigation water. Police identified the victim as Vinod Kumar, who lived in the village under Sahaspur police...
The BJP-led NDA has tightened its hold over state legislatures, crossing 61% of all MLAs across the country two years after the 2024 Lok Sabha elections exposed a more competitive national contest and denied the BJP a single-party majority at the Centre. Assembly figures now place the NDA at...
Seafarers from India working on commercial vessels near Iran and the Strait of Hormuz have issued distress appeals, alleging that ships carrying crews from India are being struck during US military operations around the Gulf of Oman. The claims, circulated through videos and audio messages on social media, have...
Twenty All India Trinamool Congress MPs have plunged the party into its sharpest parliamentary crisis in years by telling Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla that they have merged with the Nationalist Citizens Party of India and will support the National Democratic Alliance. The move, announced on Sunday by Kakoli...
Rahul Gandhi on Sunday accused the Centre of failing to defend national honour after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz must comply with orders from US forces, days after three mariners from India were killed in strikes on merchant shipping...
Rahul Gandhi has sought to recast the INDIA bloc’s post-2024 strategy as a campaign of sustained resistance, telling opposition partners that unity, not conventional electoral arithmetic, will determine whether they can challenge the BJP-led ruling coalition before the 2029 Lok Sabha contest. The Congress leader’s remarks, delivered at the...
Washington told New Delhi that commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz must immediately obey orders from US forces, intensifying a diplomatic dispute after three seafarers from India were killed in strikes on tankers off Oman. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered the warning during a call with...
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut’s sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi has opened a new confrontation between the opposition bloc and the BJP, with the ruling party accusing him of insulting both the Prime Minister and Gujarat. Raut, speaking to reporters in Pune on Saturday, used the term...
Arvind Kejriwal has told Aam Aadmi Party workers in Bathinda that Punjab’s assembly election could be advanced to November 2026, setting off an accelerated campaign pitch nearly nine months before the present House completes its term. The AAP national convenor, addressing a roadshow to mark the party’s gains in...
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has lodged a strong protest with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio over US Navy attacks in the Gulf that killed three mariners from India, intensifying New Delhi’s objections to military action against commercial shipping near Oman. Jaishankar told Rubio during a call on...
Kolkata Police have registered an FIR against Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee over remarks made during a March 9 political speech, placing the former West Bengal chief minister under fresh legal scrutiny weeks after her party lost power in the assembly elections. The case was registered at Hare Street...
US forces destroyed multiple Iranian one-way attack drones launched towards commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, the United States Central Command said, keeping the strategic waterway open as military pressure and diplomacy moved in parallel. CENTCOM said the drones were intercepted over the preceding hours after being launched...
West Bengal’s government will investigate alleged irregularities in expenditure on the Bengal Global Business Summit after Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari claimed that ₹635 crore had been paid to a single event-management company under the former Trinamool Congress administration. Adhikari said at a media briefing in Kolkata on Friday that...