Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant has rejected speculation of a fresh split in the Uddhav Thackeray-led party, saying no lawmaker has informed the leadership of any decision to leave and challenging those making such claims to name the MPs said to be crossing over. Sawant’s remarks came as the...
Ayodhya’s Ram temple trust has been served a formal legal notice seeking full disclosure of its financial accounts, intensifying scrutiny over the handling of cash, gold and silver offerings made by devotees from across the world. The notice to the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust comes amid a...
New Delhi faced a sharper political confrontation on Wednesday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi used the G7 stage in France to call for safer sea lanes and protection for seafarers, days after three citizens from India were killed in a United States military strike on a commercial tanker near...
Several religious structures across Uttar Pradesh came under administrative action on Tuesday, putting land ownership, redevelopment and public-safety disputes at the centre of a widening debate over places of worship caught in infrastructure and encroachment proceedings. The cases unfolded separately in Varanasi, Ghaziabad, Agra and Bahraich, with officials citing...
Iran’s demand for Israeli forces to leave Lebanon has thrown the emerging US-Iran truce into doubt, exposing sharp differences over an unpublished agreement intended to halt more than three months of war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told diplomats in Tehran that a full...
Former Archaeological Survey of India Regional Director K. K. Muhammed has urged Muslim leaders to voluntarily hand over the Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi and the Shahi Eidgah mosque in Mathura to the Hindu community, reviving a sensitive argument at the centre of two of the country’s most watched religious...
Hundreds of youths, students and citizens gathered at Nagpur’s Samvidhan Square on Tuesday under the banner of the Cockroach Janta Party, wearing cockroach masks, holding placards and raising slogans over alleged failures in examination governance and youth employment. The protest, led by CJP founder and activist Abhijeet Dipke, marked...
Gujarat High Court has given former cricketer and Trinamool Congress MP Yusuf Pathan four weeks to pursue his claim over a 978-square-metre Vadodara municipal plot, while warning that further delay in vacating the land could expose him to mounting damages for occupation without payment. A division bench led by...
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...