The Cockroach Janta Party’s sit-in at Jantar Mantar entered its seventh day on Friday, turning Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s birthday into a pointed political spectacle over alleged irregularities in this year’s NEET-UG examination. CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke said protesters would mark the occasion by sending Pradhan a resignation...
Security agencies have detained a 20-year-old man from Saharanpur in connection with an alleged plot to target the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, adding a national-security dimension to the scrutiny already surrounding the temple administration over donation-handling lapses. The suspect, identified as Mohammad Suhail of Gangoh in Saharanpur district, was...
Home Minister Amit Shah’s meeting with President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Thursday has intensified political speculation over a possible reshuffle of the Union Council of Ministers, coming two days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with the President. The sequence of meetings has drawn attention in...
Tehran has warned ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz to use only routes authorised by its naval forces, raising fresh concern over security and commercial traffic in one of the world’s most important energy corridors. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said vessels that move outside routes designated by...
Maharashtra has ordered fresh inquiries into allegations of sexual harassment, religious coercion and retaliatory workplace action against women employees, after Shiv Sena MLC Manisha Kayande raised complaints from corporate offices, IT units and public institutions during proceedings in the state legislature. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said a senior officer...
Opposition parties accused the Centre of deepening public uncertainty over citizenship rules after the Ministry of External Affairs said a passport is a travel document and should not be treated as conclusive proof of citizenship. The clarification, issued on Wednesday during the 14th Passport Seva Divas, triggered sharp criticism...
Speculation over a possible leadership overhaul at the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust has intensified after a Special Investigation Team submitted its preliminary findings on alleged irregularities in the handling of donations at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya. Nripendra Mishra, chairman of the Ram Temple Construction Committee and...
A nearly 72-hour standoff at a gurdwara in Uttarakhand’s Rudraprayag district ended peacefully on Tuesday evening after a delegation from Punjab persuaded a group of Nihang Sikhs to leave the shrine premises. Officials said the group vacated the Nagarasu gurdwara after negotiations involving the shrine management, district administration, police...
Lucknow: A three-member Special Investigation Team probing alleged embezzlement of donations at the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya has submitted its initial report to Uttar Pradesh Additional Chief Secretary Sanjay Prasad, marking the first formal assessment of a case that has drawn political scrutiny and public concern over temple finances....
Schoolchildren and women joined the Rawalakot protest on Tuesday as demonstrations against Pakistan’s control and governance of Pakistan-administered Kashmir entered a 15th straight day, widening a movement already marked by deaths, arrests, shutdowns and an escalating confrontation between activists and the regional administration. At Eidgah Ground in Rawalakot, the...
Raipur authorities demolished a disputed structure inside St. Paul School on Monday after a complaint alleged that a church was being built on the campus under the description of a community hall, bringing a local land and permissions dispute into a wider debate over religious activity, educational institutions and...
Fifteen people died in a fire at a three-storey building in Lucknow’s Aliganj area, turning scrutiny towards a 2016 demolition order that was withdrawn within weeks despite alleged unauthorised construction. The blaze broke out on Monday afternoon at a building on Usha Mehta Marg that housed an animation training...
Aaditya Thackeray accused the BJP of engineering defections from Shiv Sena to expand its parliamentary strength, alleging that the ruling party’s larger objective was to secure the numbers needed to alter the Constitution. The Shiv Sena MLA made the charge on Monday as six of the party’s Lok Sabha...
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar expressed grief on Tuesday after 12 nationals from India were confirmed among 13 people killed in an explosion at Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City, one of the Gulf’s most important gas-processing hubs. The blast, which occurred on Sunday night at a facility within the...
Tehran has signalled that any post-war settlement in the Gulf will leave Iran with a stronger role over the Strait of Hormuz, raising fresh uncertainty over shipping, energy flows and the fragile diplomacy aimed at ending the US-Israel conflict with Iran. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s chief negotiator and parliamentary...
A demand for a Muslim chief ministerial face has pushed the Samajwadi Party into a fresh debate over representation, social coalition politics and electoral arithmetic ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election. Maulana Shahabuddin Razvi Barelvi, president of the All India Muslim Jamaat, has written to Samajwadi Party...
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer is set to travel to New Delhi this week for high-level talks with Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, as India and the United States push to settle the first phase of a bilateral trade agreement that could reset tariff and market-access terms...
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has drawn sharp criticism from within his party after describing “encouraging progress towards normalcy” in Jammu and Kashmir following a meeting with Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha in Srinagar, exposing fresh strains inside the opposition party over its political messaging on the Union Territory. Tharoor, who...