Opposition parties will stay away from Thursday’s Cockroach Janta Party protest in Pune, even as they continue to back the demand for Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation over alleged examination irregularities and paper leaks. The decision marks a cautious response by established parties to a fast-growing youth mobilisation...
Thousands of police personnel remained deployed across Jaipur’s Nandpuri area as tensions persisted after the demolition of Noorani Masjid during a road-widening operation, with barricades, traffic restrictions and internet curbs continuing in sensitive localities. The Jaipur Development Authority carried out the demolition on Monday as part of an anti-encroachment...
New Delhi’s nuclear posture has come under sharper global scrutiny after a leading arms-control assessment estimated that the country may have placed about 12 nuclear warheads on delivery systems during peacetime for the first time, marking a possible shift from its long-held practice of keeping warheads and launch platforms...
Pakistani security forces opened fire on protesters in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir this week, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 70, as a political rights agitation turned into one of the territory’s sharpest confrontations with Islamabad-backed authorities in years. The violence, centred on Rawalakot and followed by a...
An eight-metal idol of Goddess Vagdevi placed inside the Bhojshala complex in Dhar was removed by the Archaeological Survey of India within hours, setting off a fresh flashpoint at a protected monument already at the centre of a long-running Hindu-Muslim dispute. The idol, described as an ashtadhatu image of...
Congress efforts to keep its Madhya Pradesh legislators together ahead of the June 18 Rajya Sabha elections were thrown into deeper uncertainty after the nomination of its candidate Meenakshi Natarajan was rejected during scrutiny, giving the BJP a stronger opening to win all three seats from the state. The...
Mamata Banerjee’s Delhi visit exposed a sharp change in the political weight surrounding the Trinamool Congress leader, with the capital’s usual urgency around her arrival giving way to quieter meetings, fewer visible loyalists and a growing sense that her party’s internal crisis has begun to reshape her national role....
Opposition leaders at the INDIA bloc meeting in Delhi on Monday debated whether the Cockroach Janata Party should be treated as a passing protest brand, a youth-driven warning signal, or a disruptive force capable of reshaping anti-government politics. The satirical movement, which has drawn millions of young followers online...
Jaipur Development Authority demolished Noorani Mosque on Monday during an anti-encroachment operation linked to a road-widening project near the Nandpuri underpass, after police sealed parts of the area, restricted movement and deployed thousands of personnel to prevent unrest. The action took place in the Jagatpura-Malviya Nagar belt, where civic...
India has sharply rebuked Pakistan at the United Nations, accusing Islamabad of using religious terminology to mask a state-backed propaganda campaign against New Delhi while deflecting attention from militancy and instability within its own borders. The criticism was delivered by India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Harish...
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...