Quick catch-up for today: AAP removes Raghav Chadha as party’s deputy leader Rajya Sabha, in his place Ashok Mittal has been appointed. India’s defence exports jump 62.66% to record Rs 38,424 crore in FY26 Iran reassured India on Hormuz, saying “Indian friends don’t need to worry” the situation is under control amid tensions. SC issued…
NEW DELHI: The internal rift between Raghav Chadha and the AAP high command came into the open after the party on Thursday replaced him with Ashok Mittal as its deputy leader in the Rajya Sabha.In a letter to the Rajya Sabha secretariat, AAP requested that Chadha not be allotted speaking time from the party’s quota…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Thursday unveiled the party’s manifesto for the upcoming Assam Assembly elections, outlining commitments across 11 key sectors including governance, identity and healthcare.The manifesto was released at an election rally in the presence of Assam Congress president Gaurav Gogoi and other senior party leaders, reported PTIAccording to the party,…
TMC’s Moloy Ghatak, BJP’s Subrata Thakur, Congress’ Mausam Noor and BJP’s Dibyendu Adhikari NEW DELHI: In West Bengal, a state that long prided itself on rejecting the politics of inheritance, the 2026 assembly elections are telling a very different story. For decades, Bengal mocked the dynastic culture seen in states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar,…
AAP ex-MLA Phoolka, lawyer for ’84 riot victims, joins BJP NEW DELHI: Senior advocate H S Phoolka, a former Aam Aadmi Party MLA best known for his decades-long doughty legal fight for 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims, joined BJP on Wednesday in a boost to the party’s outreach to Sikhs ahead of assembly elections in Punjab…
Congress’ V Vaithilingam; BJP’s A Johnkumar; DMK’s Vignesh Kannan NEW DELHI: The upcoming Puducherry assembly elections will see several candidates with strong political family backgrounds contesting across various constituencies. Puducherry assembly polls 2026 A total of 291 candidates are in the fray for the April 9 elections. Polling is held to elect 30 members of…
SRINAGAR: The J&K Police on Wednesday filed a chargesheet under the UAPA against a doctor and his wife for allegedly misusing social media platforms to disseminate secessionist and misleading content.The chargesheet was filed by the police’s Counter-Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) wing before the special NIA court against Dr Umer Farooq Bhat of Kulgam and his wife,…
SRINAGAR: In a significant move that was promptly decried by the Opposition as a bid to help J&K’s “super elite” retain valuable real estate, particularly hotel owners in Gulmarg which includes a landmark property owned by CM Omar Abdullah’s cousin, the state assembly Wednesday admitted a private member’s bill introduced by a legislator from the…
NEW DELHI: Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has raised questions on the condition of the new Indian embassy building in Beijing – how it turned into an “uninhabitable” place, “extremely dilapidated, within a few years of renovation and despite incurring expenditure on a comprehensive annual maintenance contract (AMC).The embassy had shifted its offices and residential…
Udhayanidhi Stalin; Vijay (File photos) NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu’s election race picked up pace on Thursday as Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin filed his nomination from Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni, while actor-politician Vijay also entered the fray from Trichy East.Udhayanidhi Stalin, son of Chief Minister MK Stalin, filed his nomination as the DMK candidate and held a roadshow…
