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Khera bail clash sharpens political fight
Congress leader Pawan Khera’s bid for pre-arrest protection in the Telangana High Court triggered a sharp courtroom exchange on Thursday, as lawyers on both sides traded barbs including “constitutional cowboys” and “international khiladi” while arguing over whether the plea was maintainable and whether the case against him reflected a...
Nitish steps into Parliament spotlight
Nitish Kumar, Bihar chief minister and Janata Dal president, is set to take oath in New Delhi on Friday as a member of the Rajya Sabha, marking a decisive shift in one of the country’s longest-running state political careers. The ceremony comes after his election to the Upper House...
Easter pause tests trust in Ukraine war
President Vladimir Putin has declared a 32-hour ceasefire in Ukraine for Orthodox Easter, with the Kremlin saying Russian forces will halt military action from 4pm on Friday, April 11, until the end of Sunday, April 12. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv would act accordingly, turning what began as...
Tamil Nadu race enters decisive stretch
Tamil Nadu’s Assembly election has moved into its final phase before polling, with the Election Commission scheduling voting for all 234 seats in a single phase on April 23 and counting on May 4. The contest is shaping up as a test of whether Chief Minister M K Stalin...
Trump hardens Iran warning – Newspack Live!
Donald Trump has said US ships, aircraft and military personnel will remain deployed in and around Iran until Tehran fully complies with what he called a “real agreement”, sharpening pressure on a ceasefire that was already under strain after Israel’s deadliest day of strikes in Lebanon in weeks. The...
Observer removal jolts Bengal poll watch
A senior election observer was removed from duty after a tense exchange with Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar during a virtual review meeting on Wednesday, in an episode that has drawn attention to discipline, preparedness and internal pressure within the Election Commission as West Bengal moves towards a high-stakes...
Ceasefire shatters as Gulf fire spreads
Missile and drone strikes hit the Gulf within hours of a ceasefire announcement between Washington and Tehran, with Iran reporting that its Lavan Island refinery had been attacked and Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain later saying they too had come under fire, underscoring how quickly the truce...
North Korea salvo shadows Seoul outreach
North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles towards the East Sea on Wednesday in a fresh show of force that undercut South Korea’s effort to lower tensions, with Seoul’s military saying the weapons were launched from the Wonsan area and flew about 240 kilometres. A later projectile from the...
LeT network crackdown widens beyond Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir Police say they have dismantled an interstate Lashkar-e-Taiba module, arresting five men including two Pakistani operatives, in what officials described as a significant breakthrough against a long-running support network that stretched beyond the Union Territory. One of the two, Abdullah alias Abu Hureira, had allegedly evaded...
Adani tests SEC case boundaries
Gautam Adani and his nephew Sagar Adani have moved to knock out a US civil fraud case, arguing that the Securities and Exchange Commission has overstepped its reach by trying to pursue claims tied to alleged conduct in India and a 2021 Adani Green Energy bond sale that was...
Court rebukes Centre over CCTV compliance
Sharp judicial displeasure over the Centre’s handling of police station surveillance compliance brought the Union home secretary into focus on Tuesday, as the Supreme Court questioned why an under secretary had been deputed to a high-level meeting on installing and monitoring CCTV systems across police stations nationwide. The bench,...
Congress hit by Assam passport backlash
Congress has come under sharp pressure in Assam after allegations by its media and publicity chief Pawan Khera that Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s wife, Riniki Bhuyan Sarma, held three passports, including documents said to be from the United Arab Emirates, Antigua and Barbuda, and Egypt, triggered legal action...
Court rebuke jolts Bengal bureaucracy
West Bengal’s top bureaucrat, Dushyant Nariala, came under sharp scrutiny from the Supreme Court on Monday after the bench questioned why the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court could not reach him during the Malda hostage episode in which seven judicial officers were surrounded while on election-related duty....
Mamata widens Bengal poll attack
Mamata Banerjee sharpened her attack on rivals and election authorities on Monday, alleging that the BJP had reached a “tacit understanding” with the Congress and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin, while claiming that the transfer of West Bengal IAS and IPS officers to Tamil Nadu as poll...
Missile alarm jolts Saudi petrochemical heartland
Saudi Arabia said it intercepted seven ballistic missiles aimed at the Eastern Region early on Tuesday, with debris falling near energy facilities and igniting a fire, marking another sharp escalation in a Gulf conflict that is now hitting the nerve centres of the region’s hydrocarbons system. Authorities said no...
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...
