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Supreme Court shuts door on Bengal appeal votes
People in West Bengal whose names were struck off the electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision will not be allowed to cast ballots in the Assembly election unless their appeals are decided in time, after the Supreme Court on April 13 refused to grant interim voting rights to...
Rahul hardens Congress stand in Assam row
Rahul Gandhi has sharpened Congress’s confrontation with Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, throwing his weight behind party spokesman Pawan Khera after a criminal case was launched over Khera’s allegations concerning Sarma’s wife, Riniki Bhuyan Sharma. In a post on X, Gandhi described Sarma as the country’s “most corrupt”...
Uttar Pradesh raises floor pay after Noida unrest
Uttar Pradesh has revised minimum wages for workers across categories after unrest in Noida spilled into violence, with the new rates taking effect from April 1 following approval late on Monday night, according to district and state officials. The move marks a swift policy response after factory workers in...
Kejriwal presses bias plea in excise case
Arvind Kejriwal has escalated the Delhi excise policy battle into a wider confrontation over judicial neutrality, telling the Delhi High Court that Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma should step aside because her orders in connected matters, the pace of proceedings and her attendance at programmes organised by the Akhil Bharatiya...
Supreme Court keeps Lalu trial on track
Lalu Prasad Yadav won limited relief from the Supreme Court on Monday after it exempted him from appearing before the trial court in the land-for-jobs case, but the bench declined to halt the proceedings or quash the CBI case. The court said questions over sanction and the legality of...
Congress strains surface in Davanagere test
Trouble is deepening within the Congress in Karnataka as the party leadership moves towards disciplinary action against some of its own functionaries over allegations that they worked against the official candidate in the Davanagere South by-election. The dispute has opened a fresh fault line inside the ruling party at...
China redraws a sensitive frontier
China has created a new county called Cenling in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, placing it under Kashgar prefecture in a move that has drawn attention because of its proximity to the Afghan border, Pakistan-administered Kashmir and the western Himalayan frontier. The announcement, issued by the regional government on...
Hooghly switch sharpens Bengal contest
Suresh Shaw, formerly a vice president of the BJP in Hooghly district, joined the Trinamool Congress on Sunday in a move that handed Mamata Banerjee’s party a campaign-time boost ahead of the West Bengal Assembly election. Shaw was inducted at a public rally in Hooghly where Abhishek Banerjee, the...
Congress targets Modi over Islamabad talks
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh sharpened the opposition’s attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, arguing that Washington’s decision to give Islamabad a central role in mediation between the United States and Iran exposed a gap in New Delhi’s regional diplomacy at a moment of heightened tension across West...
Bangladesh mob attacks deepen sectarian alarm
Mob violence in Bangladesh left a Muslim spiritual leader dead in Kushtia and Hindu homes and shops vandalised in Rangpur on Saturday, in two separate episodes that have renewed scrutiny of communal fault lines and the authorities’ ability to contain them ahead of a politically sensitive period. Local reporting...
Roll row grips Bengal’s closing stretch
Campaigning in West Bengal has entered a sharper and more confrontational phase with less than two weeks left before voting, as the battle over the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral roll moves to the centre of the contest between the ruling Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party....
Missiles scar Qatar’s gas heartland
Iran’s missile strikes on Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City have left one of the world’s most important gas export hubs badly damaged, disrupted liquefied natural gas output and deepened concern across energy markets, even as a fragile ceasefire has slowed the wider conflict for now. QatarEnergy and multiple international...
Varma quits as removal case peaks
Justice Yashwant Varma of the Allahabad High Court has resigned after nearly a year of mounting scrutiny over the discovery of charred bundles of unaccounted cash at his official residence in Delhi during a fire incident, marking a dramatic turn in one of the most serious judicial misconduct controversies...
Netanyahu opens Lebanon track under fire
Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had authorised direct negotiations with Lebanon “as soon as possible”, opening a diplomatic channel even as Israeli strikes and Hezbollah fire kept the border war active and raised new doubts over whether a fragile two-week ceasefire between Washington and Tehran can hold. The Israeli prime...
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...
