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...
Dozens of Hindu worshippers from Peterborough travelled to London as a judicial review opened over the city council’s decision to sell the site of the Bharat Hindu Samaj temple to the United Kingdom Islamic Mission, intensifying a dispute over faith, public assets and local authority decision-making. The High Court...
Global human rights organisations have sharply criticised Pakistan’s authorities after deadly clashes in Rawalakot in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir left at least 11 people dead, more than 70 injured and triggered a sweeping security clampdown ahead of a region-wide protest by the Joint Awami Action Committee. The confrontation has deepened unrest...
Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge has sharpened the state’s political confrontation with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh by asking the organisation to keep documents ready for formal registration, framing the demand as a question of accountability rather than ideology. Kharge, who assumed charge of the Home Department after the new...
Opposition parties will stay away from Thursday’s Cockroach Janta Party protest in Pune, even as they continue to back the demand for Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation over alleged examination irregularities and paper leaks. The decision marks a cautious response by established parties to a fast-growing youth mobilisation...
Thousands of police personnel remained deployed across Jaipur’s Nandpuri area as tensions persisted after the demolition of Noorani Masjid during a road-widening operation, with barricades, traffic restrictions and internet curbs continuing in sensitive localities. The Jaipur Development Authority carried out the demolition on Monday as part of an anti-encroachment...
New Delhi’s nuclear posture has come under sharper global scrutiny after a leading arms-control assessment estimated that the country may have placed about 12 nuclear warheads on delivery systems during peacetime for the first time, marking a possible shift from its long-held practice of keeping warheads and launch platforms...
Pakistani security forces opened fire on protesters in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir this week, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 70, as a political rights agitation turned into one of the territory’s sharpest confrontations with Islamabad-backed authorities in years. The violence, centred on Rawalakot and followed by a...
An eight-metal idol of Goddess Vagdevi placed inside the Bhojshala complex in Dhar was removed by the Archaeological Survey of India within hours, setting off a fresh flashpoint at a protected monument already at the centre of a long-running Hindu-Muslim dispute. The idol, described as an ashtadhatu image of...
Congress efforts to keep its Madhya Pradesh legislators together ahead of the June 18 Rajya Sabha elections were thrown into deeper uncertainty after the nomination of its candidate Meenakshi Natarajan was rejected during scrutiny, giving the BJP a stronger opening to win all three seats from the state. The...
Mamata Banerjee’s Delhi visit exposed a sharp change in the political weight surrounding the Trinamool Congress leader, with the capital’s usual urgency around her arrival giving way to quieter meetings, fewer visible loyalists and a growing sense that her party’s internal crisis has begun to reshape her national role....
Opposition leaders at the INDIA bloc meeting in Delhi on Monday debated whether the Cockroach Janata Party should be treated as a passing protest brand, a youth-driven warning signal, or a disruptive force capable of reshaping anti-government politics. The satirical movement, which has drawn millions of young followers online...
Jaipur Development Authority demolished Noorani Mosque on Monday during an anti-encroachment operation linked to a road-widening project near the Nandpuri underpass, after police sealed parts of the area, restricted movement and deployed thousands of personnel to prevent unrest. The action took place in the Jagatpura-Malviya Nagar belt, where civic...
India has sharply rebuked Pakistan at the United Nations, accusing Islamabad of using religious terminology to mask a state-backed propaganda campaign against New Delhi while deflecting attention from militancy and instability within its own borders. The criticism was delivered by India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Harish...