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...
Petrol crossed ₹100 a litre in Delhi on Monday after state-run fuel retailers raised pump prices for the fourth time in 11 days, passing part of the global oil shock from the Iran war to consumers and transport operators. Petrol was increased by ₹2.61 a litre and diesel by...
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...
Washington and Tehran moved closer to a possible framework aimed at lowering military tensions and reopening the Strait of Hormuz, after President Donald Trump said a peace understanding had been “largely negotiated” while Iran indicated that major gaps still needed to be closed.The diplomatic push gathered pace over the...
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...
Delhi High Court has issued notices to Aam Aadmi Party leader Gopal Rai and journalist Saurav Das on a plea seeking criminal contempt action over allegations that they joined a coordinated social media campaign targeting Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma during proceedings linked to the Delhi excise policy case. A...
Tamil Nadu’s ruling coalition faced fresh strain on Friday after the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi and the Indian Union Muslim League joined the cabinet led by Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay, triggering a sharp exchange with the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam over loyalty, mandate and post-poll bargaining. The confrontation marked a...
Petrol and diesel prices rose by up to 91 paise a litre on Saturday, the third increase in less than 10 days, as state-owned fuel retailers moved to recover part of the losses caused by elevated crude costs linked to the West Asia conflict. Delhi’s petrol price climbed by...
New Delhi’s ruling establishment is testing whether the collapse of the DMK-Congress partnership in Tamil Nadu can be converted into issue-based cooperation in Parliament, where every bloc of regional votes matters on constitutional amendments, federal questions and the next presidential election. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s calculation rests on a...