The Delhi High Court on Friday upheld the Centre’s temporary restriction on Telegram ahead of the NEET-UG re-examination, accepting the government’s argument that an emergency intervention was needed to protect the integrity of one of the country’s largest entrance tests. Justice Tejas Karia ruled that the measures adopted were...
Om Prakash Rajbhar has sharpened the political contest in Uttar Pradesh by claiming that the Samajwadi Party is moving towards an internal split, a charge dismissed by Akhilesh Yadav as part of a broader attempt to unsettle the opposition before the 2027 assembly election. Rajbhar, a minister in the...
Mumbai, June 17 — Shiv Sena accused rivals of trying to engineer a fresh breakaway in its parliamentary ranks, with Sanjay Raut alleging that lawmakers were being offered cash advances and flown by private aircraft as speculation mounted over a possible shift by several MPs to the Eknath Shinde-led...
Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena suffered a fresh organisational blow in Nagpur after Nitin Tiwari, its city chief, joined the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena along with several local office-bearers. Tiwari was inducted in Mumbai in the presence of Shiv Sena MP Shrikant Shinde, marking a notable shift in the party’s...
Chhattisgarh’s new school prayer schedule has triggered a sharp political confrontation after the state’s School Education Department directed government schools to include Vedic mantras and devotional recitations in the daily routine from June 16. The order, issued ahead of the 2026-27 academic session, places the Gayatri Mantra, Saraswati Vandana,...
Washington and Tehran have agreed to stop military operations across the Middle East under a Pakistan-brokered framework that marks the clearest diplomatic break yet in a conflict that has shaken Gulf security, disrupted energy flows and pulled Lebanon into the centre of the crisis. The deal, announced by Pakistan...
Uddhav Thackeray has summoned Shiv Sena MPs to Matoshree on Monday as unease spreads through Maharashtra’s Opposition ranks over the rebellion inside the Trinamool Congress and the possibility of similar moves by smaller parliamentary groups. The meeting, convened at Thackeray’s Bandra residence, is expected to focus on the mood...
New Delhi: The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance has opened a fresh push to widen its Lok Sabha support base after a rebel Trinamool Congress bloc claimed it had secured the signatures of 19 MPs willing to back the government, a move that could reshape parliamentary arithmetic ahead of another...
US President Donald Trump has claimed that Washington has “ended the war with Iran” and said Tehran had agreed never to seek a nuclear weapon, even as Iran signalled that no final decision had been taken on any agreement and insisted that its negotiating “red lines” remained intact. Trump...
Iran’s move to shut the Strait of Hormuz after fresh American strikes on its military targets has pushed the Gulf confrontation into a new and more dangerous phase, raising fears of an energy shock that could spread quickly across Asia, Europe and global financial markets. The closure order, announced...
Congress moved the Election Commission of India late on Tuesday after the nomination of Meenakshi Natarajan for the Rajya Sabha election from Madhya Pradesh was rejected, setting off a confrontation that could leave the party out of a contest it had expected to fight for the third seat from...
West Bengal’s campaign against undocumented migration from Bangladesh has moved into a sharper enforcement phase, with Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari placing deportation, holding centres and border fencing at the centre of his government’s security agenda. State figures put the number of alleged illegal Bangladeshi immigrants sent back so far...
Opposition leaders are meeting in New Delhi today to redraw the INDIA bloc’s political strategy after the exit of the DMK from the alliance framework and a weakened Trinamool Congress altered the balance inside the grouping ahead of the monsoon session of Parliament. The meeting at the Continental Club...
Hundreds of supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party gathered at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Saturday after police granted permission for a day-long demonstration, turning a viral youth-led online campaign over examination failures into its first major street mobilisation. The protest, allowed from 10am to 5pm, followed hours of uncertainty...
Opposition unity under the Congress-led INDIA bloc has come under sharp pressure after the DMK moved away from a planned national strategy meeting, the Trinamool Congress was hit by open internal dissent and the Aam Aadmi Party continued to keep itself outside central seat-sharing arrangements. The strain has exposed...
US President Donald Trump has sharpened pressure on New Delhi during trade negotiations, accusing India of benefiting for years from uneven market access while signalling that a bilateral agreement with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government remains within reach. Trump, responding to a question on the talks, said India had...
Washington’s proposal to impose an additional tariff of up to 12.5% on exports from India has opened a new front in trade negotiations, targeting a legal gap rather than a direct allegation that factories in India use forced labour. The action proposed by the United States Trade Representative places...