Twenty All India Trinamool Congress MPs have plunged the party into its sharpest parliamentary crisis in years by telling Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla that they have merged with the Nationalist Citizens Party of India and will support the National Democratic Alliance. The move, announced on Sunday by Kakoli...
Rahul Gandhi on Sunday accused the Centre of failing to defend national honour after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz must comply with orders from US forces, days after three mariners from India were killed in strikes on merchant shipping...
Rahul Gandhi has sought to recast the INDIA bloc’s post-2024 strategy as a campaign of sustained resistance, telling opposition partners that unity, not conventional electoral arithmetic, will determine whether they can challenge the BJP-led ruling coalition before the 2029 Lok Sabha contest. The Congress leader’s remarks, delivered at the...
Washington told New Delhi that commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz must immediately obey orders from US forces, intensifying a diplomatic dispute after three seafarers from India were killed in strikes on tankers off Oman. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered the warning during a call with...
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut’s sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi has opened a new confrontation between the opposition bloc and the BJP, with the ruling party accusing him of insulting both the Prime Minister and Gujarat. Raut, speaking to reporters in Pune on Saturday, used the term...
Arvind Kejriwal has told Aam Aadmi Party workers in Bathinda that Punjab’s assembly election could be advanced to November 2026, setting off an accelerated campaign pitch nearly nine months before the present House completes its term. The AAP national convenor, addressing a roadshow to mark the party’s gains in...
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has lodged a strong protest with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio over US Navy attacks in the Gulf that killed three mariners from India, intensifying New Delhi’s objections to military action against commercial shipping near Oman. Jaishankar told Rubio during a call on...
Kolkata Police have registered an FIR against Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee over remarks made during a March 9 political speech, placing the former West Bengal chief minister under fresh legal scrutiny weeks after her party lost power in the assembly elections. The case was registered at Hare Street...
US forces destroyed multiple Iranian one-way attack drones launched towards commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, the United States Central Command said, keeping the strategic waterway open as military pressure and diplomacy moved in parallel. CENTCOM said the drones were intercepted over the preceding hours after being launched...
West Bengal’s government will investigate alleged irregularities in expenditure on the Bengal Global Business Summit after Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari claimed that ₹635 crore had been paid to a single event-management company under the former Trinamool Congress administration. Adhikari said at a media briefing in Kolkata on Friday that...
Congress has dismissed speculation about a possible merger with the Trinamool Congress even as remarks by Maharashtra leader Nana Patole kept alive talk that parties born out of Congress splits could eventually return to the parent organisation. The denial came after days of political chatter triggered by turmoil inside...
Cockroach Janata Party has filed a criminal complaint against political commentator Abhijit Iyer-Mitra and another individual, alleging that a planned attempt was made to disrupt its June 6 protest at Jantar Mantar and link the youth-led group with remarks it says were never part of its platform. The complaint,...
A stone hurled at the Swarn Shatabdi Express near Firozabad shattered the windowpane of an E-1 executive coach carrying Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat, prompting railway police to open an inquiry into the security breach on the Kanpur-New Delhi route. The incident occurred around 7.20pm on Thursday after...
Sanjay Raut has triggered a political storm by claiming that Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke in the United States before the youth leader returned to the country to spearhead protests over examination irregularities. The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha member and chief...
New Delhi’s talks with Warsaw turned unusually pointed as External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski aired competing concerns over Pakistan, Russia and the limits of strategic autonomy during their meeting in the capital on January 19, 2026. The exchange exposed...
India has scrapped excise duty on petrol blended with 22% to 30% ethanol, extending tax support beyond the E20 programme and signalling a sharper policy push towards alternative transport fuels as the country seeks to curb crude oil imports and deepen its domestic biofuel market. The Finance Ministry’s notification...
Speculation over a fresh Congress-Trinamool Congress understanding intensified after Abhishek Banerjee met Rahul Gandhi at 10 Janpath in New Delhi, adding a second high-level contact between the two parties within 24 hours. Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress national general secretary and Diamond Harbour MP, was accompanied by party leader Derek...
Surat’s Nasir Nagar demolition controversy has widened into a legal and administrative crisis after nearly 100 homes and shops were razed under police presence, with the civic body denying that it ordered the operation and residents moving the Gujarat High Court alleging that due process was ignored. The demolitions...