Mamata Banerjee has called Trinamool Congress councillors of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation to her Kalighat residence as a dispute over civic notices to properties linked to Abhishek Banerjee widened into a confrontation over who controls the city’s municipal administration. The meeting follows signals from Mayor Firhad Hakim that he...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has coordinated safe passage for 26 vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, offering the clearest sign yet of a controlled easing in one of the world’s most sensitive maritime chokepoints since the Gulf conflict began on February 28. The passage, completed within a 24-hour window, included...
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has ordered police to hand over detained infiltrators directly to the Border Security Force, marking a sharp administrative shift in the state’s handling of illegal cross-border movement from Bangladesh. Adhikari announced the mechanism at the state secretariat, Nabanna, on Wednesday, saying people identified...
Pakistani senator Rana Mahmood-ul-Hassan’s combative remarks at a political gathering in New York have sharpened an already tense diplomatic exchange with India, drawing criticism across social media and among foreign policy observers after video clips showed him using threatening language and repeatedly invoking Kashmir. The speech, delivered at a...
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has said the rapid rise of the satirical Cockroach Janta Party reflects a deeper political message from young voters who feel ignored by established parties, arguing that the Opposition should treat the online movement as a warning as well as an opening. The Thiruvananthapuram MP...
A fresh legal move by Hindu petitioners has widened the Bhojshala dispute in Dhar, days after the Madhya Pradesh High Court declared the ASI-protected complex a temple dedicated to Goddess Vagdevi, also known as Saraswati. Two petitioners from the Hindu side have approached the Archaeological Survey of India seeking...
Calcutta High Court refused to stay West Bengal’s order regulating animal slaughter ahead of Eid al-Adha and directed the state government to decide within 24 hours on requests for exemption under the state’s animal slaughter law. A division bench presided over by Chief Justice Sujoy Paul left the question...
Trinamool Congress is confronting visible organisational strain after its defeat in the 2026 Bengal assembly elections, with poor attendance at its first major protest and coordinated resignations by councillors in two party-run municipalities deepening questions over morale, discipline and local control. Only 36 of the party’s 80 MLAs joined...
Household budgets across India face a fresh strain as the rupee’s slide to record lows threatens to raise the cost of fuel, imported electronics, overseas education, foreign travel and daily essentials over the coming months. The currency weakened to around 96.96 against the US dollar on May 20 before...
Adnan Sami has pushed back against online attacks questioning his nationality after his meeting with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat drew criticism from sections of social media and political commentators. The singer-composer, who became a citizen of India on January 1, 2016 after the Home Ministry approved his...
Delhi-NCR commuters faced longer waits, costlier rides and patchier last-mile connectivity on Thursday as a three-day transport strike by cab, auto-rickshaw and goods vehicle unions began across the capital region, intensifying pressure on Metro services, buses and private mobility networks. The stoppage, called from May 21 to 23, brought...
Federal investigators have dismantled a call-centre fraud operation linked to India after hundreds of elderly victims in the United States and abroad were allegedly cheated of millions of dollars through fake technology-support schemes. The case has widened beyond front-line callers to the telecommunications infrastructure that helped route victims to...
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has announced the transfer of land to the Border Security Force for fencing a 27-km stretch along the Bangladesh border, marking one of the first major security decisions of the new Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in the state. Adhikari said the state was...
Tamil Nadu’s expanded Cabinet under Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay was sworn in on Thursday at Lok Bhavan in Chennai, but the ceremony briefly turned contentious when Congress legislator S Rajesh Kumar departed from the prescribed oath and invoked Rahul Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and K Kamaraj, prompting Governor Rajendra...
US President Donald Trump has halted a planned military strike on Iran, saying negotiations with Tehran had become “serious”, while warning that force could return swiftly if talks fail to produce an agreement. The decision has temporarily eased fears of a wider regional escalation, but it has not removed...
Actor-politician C Joseph Vijay’s fledgling government in Tamil Nadu has entered its first major stability test, with the CPI warning that it will reconsider support if the AIADMK or any faction of it is brought into the ruling coalition or Cabinet. The warning has sharpened the political uncertainty around...
Norway’s largest newspaper has come under sharp criticism after a cartoon portraying Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a snake charmer surfaced online during his Oslo visit, adding a charged cultural dispute to a diplomatic trip already marked by questions over press freedom in India. The illustration appeared in Aftenposten...
West Bengal’s BJP government has restored reservation benefits for 66 communities that were on the state’s Other Backward Classes list before 2010, marking a sharp policy reset days after scrapping the wider OBC framework shaped under the previous Trinamool Congress administration. The Suvendu Adhikari-led cabinet’s decision returns the state...