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Modi urges household fuel restraint
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged citizens and businesses to revive work-from-home practices, curb petrol and diesel use and defer non-essential gold purchases for a year as the Middle East war pushes crude prices higher and threatens to strain India’s import bill. Addressing a public meeting in Hyderabad on...
Modi balances outreach with Congress attack
Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated C Joseph Vijay after he took oath as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister on Sunday, pairing a message of cooperation with a sharp political attack on the Congress over its decision to back the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam government after years of partnership with the DMK....
Vijay begins rule with welfare sweep
Vijay took charge as Tamil Nadu chief minister on Sunday with a welfare-heavy first order covering 200 units of free domestic power, a special anti-drug task force, and a women’s safety force backed by a dedicated helpline. The Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam founder was sworn in at the Jawaharlal Nehru...
Adhikari opens BJP era in Bengal
West Bengal is poised for its sharpest political turn in decades as Suvendu Adhikari prepares to take oath as the state’s first Bharatiya Janata Party chief minister, a development that ends 15 years of Trinamool Congress rule and places the BJP at the centre of power in Kolkata for...
AIMIM councillor faces TCS case scrutiny
Police in Nashik have widened the probe into the TCS workplace harassment and alleged conversion case by naming Abdul Mateen Patel, an AIMIM councillor from Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar, as an accused for allegedly sheltering former employee Nida Khan while she was evading investigators. Patel, a councillor from Naregaon, was...
Trump tariff drive hits legal wall
President Donald Trump’s tariff offensive has suffered a sharp courtroom defeat after a federal trade court ruled that his 10 per cent global import surcharge exceeded the authority granted to the White House under a 1970s trade law. A divided three-judge panel of the United States Court of International...
Raja Subramani set for defence apex
New Delhi has named Lieutenant General N. S. Raja Subramani as the next Chief of Defence Staff, placing a former Vice Chief of Army Staff and National Security Council Secretariat insider at the centre of India’s higher defence management. The appointment, announced on 9 May 2026, will take effect...
Left backs Vijay amid DMK charge
CPI general secretary M. A. Baby has defended the party’s decision to support actor-politician C. Joseph Vijay in Tamil Nadu’s government formation battle, arguing that the Left could not endorse any arrangement that placed the AIADMK within reach of power while it remained aligned with the BJP-led National Democratic...
Kapur trust feud moves to mediation
Nearly a year after businessman Sunjay Kapur died while playing polo in England, the dispute between his widow Priya Sachdev Kapur and his mother Rani Kapur over the RK Family Trust has moved from open courtroom confrontation to court-monitored mediation, with former Chief Justice of India D. Y. Chandrachud...
Stalin lets allies weigh Vijay offer
Tamil Nadu’s unsettled verdict has pushed the DMK’s smaller allies into the centre of government-formation talks after VCK and Left party leaders met Chief Minister M K Stalin to discuss whether they should back C Joseph Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam. Stalin is understood to have told the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal...
Hormuz clash tests fragile Iran truce
American and Iranian forces exchanged fire in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, putting fresh strain on a month-old ceasefire that Washington says remains in effect despite one of the sharpest maritime confrontations since the truce began. President Donald Trump said three US Navy destroyers passed through the strategic...
Nashik TCS case turns sharper
Nashik police have arrested Nida Khan, a suspended Tata Consultancy Services employee and key accused in a workplace harassment and alleged religious coercion case that has widened scrutiny of the company’s Nashik unit and its internal complaint mechanisms. Khan was taken into custody on Thursday from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar after...
Stalin faces hard choices after fractured vote
Tamil Nadu’s unresolved power struggle sharpened on Thursday as rival camps moved to protect their legislators, test alliance arithmetic and prepare for a prolonged contest over who should be invited to form the next government. All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami met newly elected...
Bengal power shift deepens unrest
West Bengal faced a widening political crisis on Thursday as Mamata Banerjee resisted pressure to quit as Chief Minister after the Bharatiya Janata Party’s decisive Assembly election victory, while the killing of a close aide of Suvendu Adhikari sharpened fears of escalating post-poll violence. Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress was pushed...
Mamata standoff tests Bengal transition
Calls for Mamata Banerjee’s removal from office intensified after senior advocate Mahesh Jethmalani described her refusal to resign as “unpardonable” and a direct challenge to democratic order, deepening a constitutional confrontation in West Bengal after the Bharatiya Janata Party’s decisive Assembly election victory. Jethmalani, speaking in a television interview...
Punjab tightens watch after twin blasts
Punjab police tightened security around sensitive defence-linked locations after two explosions were reported within hours in Jalandhar and Amritsar, triggering a multi-agency probe into whether the incidents were connected or separate localised events. The second blast occurred late Tuesday night near the Army cantonment area in Khasa on the...
Hormuz calm eludes US after Iran offensive
Washington has declared its major military campaign against Iran over, but the Strait of Hormuz remains locked in a dangerous standoff that continues to threaten energy flows, commercial shipping and fragile diplomacy across the Gulf. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at the White House that Operation Epic...
Congress regrets missed Vijay opening
Congress is facing sharp internal questioning in Tamil Nadu after leaders acknowledged that a pre-poll understanding with Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam was examined but abandoned before the Assembly election that pushed the DMK-Congress alliance out of power. The debate has gained urgency after TVK emerged as the single largest...
