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Delhi rebuts Dutch rights criticism
New Delhi has rejected reported remarks by Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten on media freedom and minority rights, saying India remains a vibrant democracy where free speech, diversity and religious coexistence are protected by constitutional guarantees. The response came during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the Netherlands on...
BNP ties Delhi relations to Ganges pact
Bangladesh’s main governing party has placed the renewal of the Ganges water-sharing agreement at the centre of future relations with New Delhi, urging talks on a fresh arrangement well before the 30-year treaty expires in December 2026. Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said Dhaka expected...
Bhojshala verdict sharpens temple dispute
Multiple reactions poured in after the Indore Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court declared the Bhojshala–Kamal Maula Mosque complex in Dhar to be a temple dedicated to Goddess Vagdevi Saraswati, setting aside the 2003 administrative arrangement that had allowed Hindu worship on Tuesdays and Friday namaz by Muslims...
Fuel rise tests inflation defences
Petrol and diesel became costlier by ₹3 a litre on Friday, ending a near four-year freeze in retail fuel rates and raising concern that transport, food and household costs could harden across the economy.State-run oil marketing companies implemented the increase with immediate effect after weeks of pressure from elevated...
Sood secures another year at CBI
Central Bureau of Investigation Director Praveen Sood will remain in office until May 2027 after the Centre approved a second one-year extension, keeping the country’s premier investigation agency under the same leadership beyond the end of his current term on May 24, 2026. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet...
Bullion duty shock jolts domestic markets
Gold and silver prices surged across domestic futures and physical markets on Wednesday after the Centre raised import duties on the two precious metals, jolting traders, jewellers and investors already navigating elevated global prices and wider economic uncertainty. Silver hit the 6 per cent upper circuit on the Multi...
Tehran backs Beijing’s Gulf peace framework
Tehran has signalled readiness to support President Xi Jinping’s four-point proposal for ending the United States-Iran war, placing Beijing’s diplomatic framework at the centre of a widening contest over security in the Persian Gulf. Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, Iran’s ambassador to China, said on Monday that the Islamic Republic was...
Mamata faces cold shoulder in Bengal
Mamata Banerjee’s call for a broad anti-BJP front in West Bengal has run into a firm rebuff from the Congress, the Left Front and CPI-ML, deepening the Trinamool Congress’s isolation after its sharp defeat in the Assembly election and the formation of the state’s first Bharatiya Janata Party government....
Vijay centralises power in Tamil Nadu
Chennai witnessed a striking transfer of authority on Sunday as Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam founder C Joseph Vijay took oath as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, capping four days of intense bargaining after a fractured Assembly verdict and immediately signalling that decision-making in the new government would rest firmly with...
VCK backing edges Vijay towards power
Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi’s two legislators are set to become decisive in Tamil Nadu’s government formation, with the party expected to announce support on Saturday for C. Joseph Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam after days of intense negotiations following a fractured Assembly verdict. The move, if formalised, would give Vijay the...
Vijay’s oath wait deepens in Chennai
Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar has not cleared Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam chief C. Joseph Vijay’s bid to take oath as Tamil Nadu chief minister on Saturday, with Raj Bhavan unconvinced that he has established a reliable majority in the 234-member Assembly. The delay has pushed Tamil Nadu’s government-formation battle into...
Mamata’s standoff meets constitutional wall
West Bengal’s political transition moved from defiance to formal closure after Governor R N Ravi dissolved the state Legislative Assembly with effect from May 7, ending Mamata Banerjee’s attempt to prolong her stay as chief minister after the Trinamool Congress suffered a decisive election defeat. The Raj Bhavan order,...
Vijay faces decisive Raj Bhavan test
TVK chief Vijay was called back to Raj Bhavan on Thursday as Tamil Nadu’s government formation entered a tense numbers phase, with Governor R V Arlekar seeking clarity on whether Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam had secured enough additional support to command a majority in the 234-member Assembly. The meeting followed...
Bulldozer attack fuels Bengal poll unrest
Kolkata’s central shopping district was gripped by fresh tension after a bulldozer was allegedly used to vandalise a Trinamool Congress-linked office and damage nearby shops in the Hogg Market-New Market area, deepening West Bengal’s post-election crisis after the Bharatiya Janata Party’s sweeping assembly victory. The late-night incident near Gate...
2026 Tamil Nadu election and government-formation developments
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Cong to support Vijay in govt formation
Congress has moved to support Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam in Tamil Nadu, giving the actor-turned-politician a clearer path to government formation after his two-year-old party overturned decades of electoral dominance by the DMK and AIADMK. TVK emerged as the single-largest party in the 234-member Assembly with 108 seats, 10...
Bengal’s saffron surge ends Mamata era
BJP workers jeered Abhishek Banerjee at a Kolkata counting centre as West Bengal delivered one of its sharpest political verdicts, ending Mamata Banerjee’s 15-year rule and giving the Bharatiya Janata Party its first government in the state. The chant of “chor, chor” at Sakhawat Memorial Girls School, where votes...
BJP surge imperils Mamata’s long reign
Bengal appeared headed for a political rupture on Monday as the Bharatiya Janata Party moved comfortably past the majority mark in the 2026 Assembly election count, threatening to end Mamata Banerjee’s 15-year hold on power and push the Trinamool Congress into its deepest crisis since taking office in 2011....
