Tensions at a housing society in Mira Road, near Mumbai, escalated into a communal flashpoint after residents objected to a temporary shed and sacrificial goats kept inside the premises ahead of Bakrid, prompting heavy police deployment and the shifting of the animals to an alternative location. The dispute broke...
Enforcement Directorate teams searched about 10 locations across Kerala on Wednesday as the money-laundering probe into Cochin Minerals and Rutile Limited’s alleged payments to Exalogic Solutions Pvt Ltd moved into a more intensive phase. The searches covered premises linked to CMRL, Exalogic Solutions and individuals connected with the disputed...
Siliguri police have registered a case against Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee after a lawyer accused the former West Bengal chief minister of hurting Hindu religious sentiments through remarks allegedly made in connection with Sanatan Dharma. The complaint, filed by advocate Rinki Chatterjee Singh at the Siliguri Cyber Police...
Mass resignations across Trinamool Congress-controlled municipalities have thrown civic administration into turmoil and sharpened questions over the party’s organisational grip after its heavy defeat in West Bengal’s Assembly election. North Barrackpore and Diamond Harbour, two areas long viewed as important TMC strongholds, have emerged as flashpoints in a wider...
Dhar remained under tight security after religious slogans, rival claims and a High Court ruling declaring the Bhojshala-Kamal Maula complex a temple sharpened communal sensitivities around the protected monument. Hindu groups held large-scale prayers at the site after the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s May 15 order, while sections of...
Supreme Court declined an urgent hearing on Monday for a petition seeking a probe into the Cockroach Janta Party, a satirical digital movement whose rapid rise among young social media users has turned a courtroom remark into a wider debate on free expression, youth discontent and institutional criticism. Chief...
Rahul Gandhi has urged Congress leaders to speak directly about issues affecting Muslims instead of placing them under the broader label of “minority”, drawing a sharp response from the Bharatiya Janata Party and opening another front in the contest over identity, representation and secular politics. The remarks were made...
West Bengal has directed all district administrations to begin work on holding centres for apprehended foreigners and released foreign prisoners awaiting deportation or repatriation, sharpening the state’s administrative response to undocumented migration and cross-border detention cases. The Home and Hill Affairs Department issued the instruction to District Magistrates across...
Shanxi’s dominant role in China’s coal system has come under sharper scrutiny after a deadly mine explosion triggered safety inspections, mine closures and a jump in coking coal prices, underscoring how disruption in one province can ripple across the country’s energy and industrial supply chains. The northern province produced...
BJP’s emphatic victory in Falta has opened a sharp new confrontation in West Bengal politics, with Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee questioning the Election Commission of India’s handling of the contest and Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari framing the result as a collapse of Trinamool’s influence in its...
Washington’s drive for an end-of-war agreement with Tehran has entered a delicate phase after President Donald Trump said the proposed settlement was not “fully negotiated yet”, tempering expectations of an imminent breakthrough despite signals from both capitals that a framework was taking shape. Trump’s intervention followed days of guarded...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio sought to reassure India over racist comments targeting people of India-origin in the United States, saying America remained a welcoming country even as “stupid people” in every society made offensive remarks that did not represent national values. Rubio made the remarks at a...
Petrol and diesel prices rose sharply on Monday as state-run oil retailers moved for the fourth time in less than two weeks to pass higher crude costs and currency pressures on to consumers. Petrol was increased by ₹2.61 a litre and diesel by ₹2.71 a litre across the country,...
Police have stationed personnel outside the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar residence of Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the online satirical movement Cockroach Janta Party, after the group’s sharp rise on social media turned his family home into a point of public attention. The protection has been arranged at the MIDC Waluj area...
Udhayanidhi Stalin has sharpened the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s attack on the Congress party, accusing its former ally of helping the Bharatiya Janata Party’s electoral advance more than Prime Minister Narendra Modi or Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The Leader of the Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Assembly made the...
Priests linked to Ajmer Dargah Sharif have urged the Centre to declare the cow the national animal and impose a nationwide prohibition on its sale, slaughter and export of beef, placing one of the country’s most prominent Sufi shrines at the centre of a sensitive debate days before Eid-ul-Azha....
A widening group of lawyers, academics, researchers, activists and former civil servants has urged Chief Justice of India Surya Kant to retract remarks made by a Supreme Court Bench about environmental litigants, arguing that the comments could weaken public-interest scrutiny of large projects. The intervention follows observations made on...
Kerala’s electoral battle has moved from polling booths to the credibility of the voter list, with the CPM alleging that the Election Commission handled the Special Intensive Revision of rolls in a manner that favoured the United Democratic Front during the Assembly election process.The charge has sharpened after the...