BJP MP Sambit Patra sharpened the ruling party’s attack on the Opposition INDIA bloc by suggesting that Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav could face the same political uncertainty now surrounding Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee, turning internal alliance strains into a fresh line of campaign fire. Patra’s remarks followed...
Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke has sharpened his attack on the political establishment, alleging that public debate over the past decade has been dominated by Hindu-Muslim issues while unemployment, examination failures and recruitment delays have remained unresolved. Dipke, who has emerged as the face of a youth-led protest...
A border standoff in West Bengal has sharpened tensions between the Border Security Force and Border Guard Bangladesh after around 40 people who had been stranded near the zero line disappeared overnight, leaving both sides under pressure to explain how the episode was resolved. The group had been stuck...
Former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot has reopened one of the Congress party’s most sensitive internal episodes, saying he would not have refused the organisation’s top post had Sonia Gandhi and the party leadership formally asked him to take charge in 2022. His remarks have revived scrutiny of the...
Three Air India aircraft parked at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport were damaged after strong winds and rain pushed ground support equipment into them, forcing the airline to take the narrow-body jets out of service and review their return-to-flying timelines. The incident took place on Sunday evening near Terminal...
Iran launched missiles towards Israel for the first time since an April ceasefire, triggering Israeli air defences and drawing retaliatory strikes on military targets in central and western Iran as the region moved closer to a wider confrontation. The Iranian attack followed Israel’s strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on...
Warnings asking Muslims to stay away from the Cockroach Janta Party’s Delhi protest exposed a deeper anxiety around street mobilisation, minority visibility and policing as the youth-led platform moved from social media satire to a public demonstration at Jantar Mantar. Messages circulated through WhatsApp groups, mosque-linked networks, Instagram reels...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it launched missile strikes on enemy bases across the Gulf on Saturday, sharply widening a confrontation triggered by US attacks on Iranian coastal sites near the Strait of Hormuz and sending Kuwait and Bahrain into emergency air defence alerts. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said...
Congress expressed confidence on Friday that it would win all seven Rajya Sabha seats it is contesting across five states, after naming a slate led by party president Mallikarjun Kharge, media department chief Pawan Khera and data strategist Praveen Chakravarty. Party leaders said the nominations reflected a mix of...
Mahua Moitra has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of using threats of arrest to pressure Trinamool Congress rebels and reshape opposition leadership in West Bengal, as a separate video of a local party leader allegedly hiding under a bed from villagers demanding “cut money” refunds deepened the crisis around...
Mamata Banerjee moved to reassert control over the Trinamool Congress after signs of turmoil spread from its legislature party to its parliamentary ranks, with several Lok Sabha MPs converging on Delhi amid speculation that a breakaway bloc may be taking shape. The party leadership was jolted on Friday by...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed suggestions that New Delhi’s expanding engagement with Washington will weaken its partnership with Moscow, saying pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over Russia ties would be “useless” and damaging to international relations. Putin’s remarks, made during an interaction in St Petersburg, were aimed...
Suspended Trinamool Congress leader Riju Dutta has claimed that about 20 party MPs have approached the Bharatiya Janata Party’s office with application forms, adding a fresh layer of uncertainty to the deepening organisational crisis around Mamata Banerjee’s party after its loss of power in West Bengal. Dutta, who was...
Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee is facing a police complaint in Siliguri after remarks linking Union Home Minister Amit Shah to the handling of suspects in the killing of Bangladeshi political activist Sharif Osman bin Hadi triggered a fresh political and diplomatic dispute. The complaint, filed by advocate Rinku...
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has claimed that Narendra Modi will not remain prime minister within a year, escalating the opposition’s attack on the Union government by arguing that the political and administrative system around the Prime Minister is weakening from within. Gandhi made the remarks on Wednesday while addressing...
Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra “Balen” Shah is facing the sharpest political backlash of his short tenure after student organisations that once helped fuel the anti-establishment wave behind his rise demanded a public apology, a formal retraction and, from some groups, his resignation over remarks on the Nepal-India border dispute....
Washington lawmakers delivered a rare bipartisan rebuke to President Donald Trump’s Iran policy after the House of Representatives approved a war powers resolution directing the withdrawal of US forces from hostilities unless Congress authorises further military action. The Republican-led chamber voted 215-208 for the measure on Wednesday, with four...
Kolkata’s civic administration was thrown into political uncertainty after senior Trinamool Congress leader and Kolkata Port MLA Firhad Hakim resigned as Mayor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Wednesday, sending his resignation to party chairperson Mamata Banerjee amid intensifying strain inside the ruling organisation. Hakim, one of Banerjee’s closest and...