NEW DELHI: Mocking BJP for turning “nari” into “nara” (slogan), SP chief Akhilesh Yadav said the party was rushing with women’s quota on the basis of Census 2011 because it wanted to delay the caste census, which would lead to the demand for an OBC subquota.Manish Tewari of Congress warned that delimitation had a constitutional…
NEW DELHI: Amitabh Jhunjhunwala, a former close associate of Anil Ambani and ex vice-chairperson of Reliance Capital arrested on Wednesday, has told a special court here that ED has indulged in “pick and choose” by arresting him instead of going after the “actual beneficiary of Rs 11,500 crore” of proceeds of crime.In his submission before…
In the latest in a series of mysterious drive-by shootings at high-profile terror ideologues and commanders in Pakistan, Lashkar-eTaiba (LeT) co-founder Amir Hamza (67) was shot by unidentified gunmen in Lahore on Thursday. This marks the second assassination attempt on Hamza, a USdesignated terrorist, over the past year; he had survived a shooting in May…
BENGALURU: Earth’s orbit is turning into a high-speed traffic grid and Indian satellites are swerving to stay safe. More than 1.5 lakh close approach alerts were issued for Indian space assets in 2025, exposing mounting collision risks in an increasingly crowded sky.Data from Indian Space Situational Assessment Report 2025 shows about 1.6 lakh alerts globally,…
In Bengal, the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has triggered sharp political controversy, with allegations that large numbers of people risk being struck off voter lists. But in Kalimpong’s Tibetan settlement, many residents recall the experience of voter verification very differently — as a process that recognised settled communities rather than excluding them.In…
Amid the recurring debate over whether northern states could gain at the expense of the South in any future Lok Sabha expansion, the historical record tells a more complicated story. Between 1951 and 1977, when parliamentary seats were periodically reallocated after Census exercises, both the Hindi belt and the southern states saw their share of…
NEW DELHI: India on Thursday raised serious concerns at the United Nations over threats to commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, urging the immediate restoration of safe navigation and calling for restraint and de-escalation amid continuing tensions in the Middle East.Addressing the UN General Assembly debate under the Veto Initiative on “The Situation in…
NEW DELHI: While the Lok Sabha debated three Bills, including a Constitutional amendment Bill, to enable the rollout of women’s reservation in the 2029 general election, the law ministry on Thursday notified April 16, 2026 as the date on which the provisions of the Constitution (One Hundred and Sixth Amendment) Act 2023 — popularly called…
In Tamil Nadu, elections are not decided by party arithmetic alone. Across its regions, dominant caste blocs — vanniyars in the north, gounders in the west, thevars in the south, and dalit and nadar communities in key pockets — continue to shape alliances, candidate selection and, often, the final result.Vanniyars are concentrated in northern districts…
In the early hours of June 14, 2023, Enforcement Directorate arrested Tamil Nadu electricity minister V Senthilbalaji in a money laundering case, a fallout of a cash-for-jobs scam during an earlier tenure as an ADMK minister. As he lost his ministerial berth, underwent heart treatment, and spent more than a year in jail, there were…
