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Bengal poll shows a slim TMC lead
West Bengal’s Assembly election is shaping into a tight fight, with a Matrize opinion poll putting the Trinamool Congress marginally ahead of the BJP-led bloc while still projecting Mamata Banerjee’s party to clear the majority mark in the 294-member House. The survey, carried by ANI and reproduced by ABP...
Jaishankar call signals India’s watch on Iran crisis
External affairs minister S Jaishankar spoke on Sunday with Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi as fighting and diplomatic manoeuvring across the Middle East sharpened pressure on regional governments and major energy importers alike. Jaishankar said only that the two men had discussed “the present situation”, offering no further detail,...
Chidambaram attacks poll-timed Parliament move
Congress leader and former Union minister P Chidambaram has accused the Centre of engineering a politically timed parliamentary sitting that, he said, could sideline opposition MPs from Tamil Nadu and West Bengal just as those states head into crucial assembly elections. In a social media post on Sunday, Chidambaram...
Passport row jolts Assam campaign
A fresh political clash has broken out in Assam days before voting in the state assembly election, after Congress leader Pawan Khera alleged that Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s wife, Riniki Bhuyan Sharma, holds multiple foreign passports and has not fully disclosed overseas assets. The accusation was rejected by...
Kolkata warning deepens Pakistan rhetoric row
Pakistan’s latest warning to India has sharpened concern over the level of public rhetoric now surrounding one of South Asia’s most dangerous rivalries, after Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said any future “misadventure” by New Delhi could draw a response reaching Kolkata. The remark, delivered in Sialkot on Saturday, came...
ED scrutiny shadows Debasish Kumar campaign
Enforcement Directorate questioning of Trinamool Congress legislator Debasish Kumar has thrust Kolkata’s Rashbehari contest into sharper focus after federal investigators called him in again on Friday over an alleged land-deals case tied to disputed properties, suspected forged papers and possible links between private operators and civic insiders. Kumar, a...
Malda siege arrest deepens Bengal scrutiny
West Bengal police have arrested advocate Mofakkarul Islam, alleging he was a principal organiser behind the gherao of seven judicial officers in Malda’s Kaliachak-II block office, an episode that has widened concern over security, election administration and the state’s law-and-order response just weeks before assembly voting. Police said Islam...
Iran broadens missile pressure on Israel
Iran and allied groups said they had launched “Wave 93” of what Tehran describes as an ongoing retaliatory campaign, targeting Israeli military support and staging areas deep inside Israeli-held territory, according to state media and statements attributed to the Revolutionary Guards. The claim marks another step up in a...
Supreme Court backs tougher penalties for superiors
A higher office in the chain of command brings a heavier duty of trust, and misconduct by those at the top can justifiably attract stiffer punishment than the same wrongdoing by subordinates, the Supreme Court has ruled while restoring the dismissal of a Punjab & Sind Bank senior manager...
Voter roll row jolts Bengal campaign
Anger over West Bengal’s Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls has pushed the voter-list dispute to the centre of the assembly election campaign, after protests in Malda turned violent and sharpened the clash between the Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party over who is being struck off the...
Hormuz vote pared back after pushback
A United Nations Security Council vote on a Bahrain-backed plan to protect shipping through the Strait of Hormuz was pushed to Saturday after intense negotiations stripped out language that could have opened the door to offensive military action, reflecting resistance from China, Russia and France to any mandate that...
Bengal contest tightens as BJP tests TMC hold
West Bengal is heading into the 2026 Assembly election with the sharpest two-party contest the state has seen in years, as the Bharatiya Janata Party presses its strongest challenge yet to Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress, though the ruling party still appears to retain the edge on the numbers available...
Court rebukes Centre over CISF appeal
New Delhi, April 2: The Supreme Court has imposed costs of Rs 25,000 on the Centre for pursuing what it described as unnecessary litigation in a service matter involving a Central Industrial Security Force constable, while upholding a Punjab and Haryana High Court ruling that had set aside his...
Pezeshkian seeks opening as Trump hardens line
Masoud Pezeshkian used a direct appeal to the American public on Wednesday to argue that Iran does not seek enmity with ordinary Americans and to suggest that diplomacy remains possible, even as Donald Trump prepared to deliver a nationally televised address promising a tougher military push and dismissing any...
Banerjee blames BJP after Malda rebuke
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sharpened her attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday after the Supreme Court delivered a stinging rebuke to the state administration over the alleged gherao of judicial officers in Malda, turning a law-and-order controversy into a larger battle over the conduct of...
CJI rebukes Bengal over Malda siege
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant sharply criticised the West Bengal administration on Thursday over the gherao of judicial officers in Malda, telling state authorities they moved only after he issued severe verbal directions late at night to secure the officials’ release. During the hearing, he said the district...
Uttarakhand defections deepen BJP unease
Six senior political figures from Uttarakhand, most of them associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party, have joined the Congress in New Delhi, handing the ruling party in the hill state an unwelcome political jolt as campaigning calculations begin to sharpen ahead of the 2027 assembly election. The switch was...
Paes shifts court in Bengal
Leander Paes, one of the country’s best-known sporting figures, has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, leaving the Trinamool Congress weeks before West Bengal votes in its 2026 Assembly election. The move gives the BJP a high-profile face with roots in Kolkata and a sporting legacy that cuts across party...
