A demand for a Muslim chief ministerial face has pushed the Samajwadi Party into a fresh debate over representation, social coalition politics and electoral arithmetic ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election. Maulana Shahabuddin Razvi Barelvi, president of the All India Muslim Jamaat, has written to Samajwadi Party...
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer is set to travel to New Delhi this week for high-level talks with Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, as India and the United States push to settle the first phase of a bilateral trade agreement that could reset tariff and market-access terms...
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has drawn sharp criticism from within his party after describing “encouraging progress towards normalcy” in Jammu and Kashmir following a meeting with Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha in Srinagar, exposing fresh strains inside the opposition party over its political messaging on the Union Territory. Tharoor, who...
A Bengaluru magistrate court has issued a non-bailable warrant against actor Prakash Raj in a case alleging that he held four voter identity cards registered across different states, bringing a fresh legal spotlight on the film personality and political commentator. The order was passed by the 48th Additional Chief...
Ayodhya’s Ram temple donation controversy widened on Monday after Mahant Dharmadas Baba condemned the alleged financial irregularities as a betrayal of faith and demanded the severest possible action against those found responsible. Dharmadas Baba, a former litigant for Ram Lalla and Mahant of Hanumangarhi Temple, said the alleged wrongdoing...
Arvind Kejriwal has sharpened the political pressure over alleged irregularities in Ram Temple donations, asking why no First Information Report has been registered despite claims that cash and valuables offered by devotees were stolen from the Ayodhya shrine. The Aam Aadmi Party national convenor said on Sunday that the...
New Delhi sharply rejected remarks by Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on religious sites, saying he had no standing to comment on matters within India’s domestic jurisdiction and describing his intervention as politically driven. The Ministry of External Affairs said on Saturday that Zardari’s comments on alleged threats to...
Uddhav Thackeray has rejected claims that Shiv Sena could merge with the Congress, pushing back against a rebellion by six Lok Sabha MPs that threatens to deepen the party’s crisis four years after the first major split in the organisation founded by Bal Thackeray. Addressing party workers in Mumbai...
Ayodhya’s Ram temple administration came under mounting pressure after construction committee chairman Nripendra Mishra called for a complete restructuring of the shrine’s management system, saying allegations over donation misappropriation had exposed serious failures in supervision, accountability and compliance. Mishra’s intervention has sharpened scrutiny of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth...
Jharkhand Police have recommended an anti-terror probe into the petrol bomb attack on a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh office in Ranchi after investigators claimed the three arrested men had links to an ISI-funded outfit and were radicalised during stays in Dubai. The attack, first treated as a local vandalism case,...
West Bengal’s new government has moved illegal immigration to the centre of its security agenda, triggering sharper enforcement along the India-Bangladesh border and fresh diplomatic friction with Dhaka over detention, verification and deportation procedures. Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has directed state agencies to implement a “Detect, Delete and Deport”...
Murliganj police have arrested Mohammad Dukhan, a resident of Mirganj Ward No. 10 in Bihar’s Madhepura district, after a complaint that the national flag had been tampered with near a shop, triggering a criminal case under laws dealing with disrespect to national symbols. Dukhan, son of the late Mohammad...
US President Donald Trump has defended his handling of the three-month war with Iran, saying there were “no limits” to his ability to exert power even as the ceasefire framework he accepted fell short of Washington’s opening demand for Tehran’s unconditional surrender. Trump’s remarks came after his administration moved...
A Delhi court has sent Sateesh Seth, former managing director of Reliance Anil Ambani Group, to 14 days’ judicial custody in a money-laundering case linked to alleged hawala transfers and suspected diversion of funds through layered corporate channels. Vacation Judge Rashmi Gupta ordered Seth’s custody until July 2 after...
The Cockroach Janta Party has demanded ₹1 crore compensation for every family that lost a NEET aspirant to suicide amid the paper leak and re-examination crisis, intensifying pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi days before the medical entrance retest. CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke made the demand in an open...
Congress leader Pawan Khera sharpened his party’s attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, endorsing Karnataka minister Priyank Kharge’s demand that the organisation register itself, disclose its finances and submit to the same legal scrutiny expected of other public bodies. Khera, chairman of the Congress media and publicity department, accused...
India has raised the Rawalakot protest deaths at the United Nations Human Rights Council, accusing Pakistan of using force against people in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir who were demanding basic economic and political rights. Speaking in Geneva, diplomat Anupama Singh said the situation in PoJK had exposed what New...
Jharkhand’s ruling alliance suffered a sharp political setback on Thursday as National Democratic Alliance-backed independent candidate Parimal Nathwani defeated Congress nominee Pranav Jha to win one of the state’s two Rajya Sabha seats, exposing fractures within the JMM-Congress camp despite its numerical advantage in the Assembly. Jharkhand Mukti Morcha...