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Duty waiver lifts ethanol fuel push

India has scrapped excise duty on petrol blended with 22% to 30% ethanol, extending tax support beyond the E20 programme and signalling a sharper pol…

Congress-TMC thaw talk grows after Delhi meetings

Speculation over a fresh Congress-Trinamool Congress understanding intensified after Abhishek Banerjee met Rahul Gandhi at 10 Janpath in New Delhi, a…

Surat demolition row tests civic accountability

Surat’s Nasir Nagar demolition controversy has widened into a legal and administrative crisis after nearly 100 homes and shops were razed under polic…

Hormuz closure widens stakes of Gulf confrontation

Iran’s move to shut the Strait of Hormuz after fresh American strikes on its military targets has pushed the Gulf confrontation into a new and more d…

Peterborough temple sale reaches High Court showdown

Dozens of Hindu worshippers from Peterborough travelled to London as a judicial review opened over the city council’s decision to sell the site of th…

Rights groups denounce POK protest crackdown

Global human rights organisations have sharply criticised Pakistan’s authorities after deadly clashes in Rawalakot in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir left …

Mahalingpur protest seeks Cabinet berth for Zameer

Members of the Muslim community and several local organisations staged a large protest in Mahalingpur, demanding that senior Congress leader B. Z. Za…

Kharge presses RSS on registration papers

Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge has sharpened the state’s political confrontation with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh by asking the organisat…

Opposition avoids CJP Pune protest

Opposition parties will stay away from Thursday’s Cockroach Janta Party protest in Pune, even as they continue to back the demand for Union education…

Jaipur stays tense after mosque demolition

Thousands of police personnel remained deployed across Jaipur’s Nandpuri area as tensions persisted after the demolition of Noorani Masjid during a r…

New Delhi’s nuclear posture enters sharper focus

New Delhi’s nuclear posture has come under sharper global scrutiny after a leading arms-control assessment estimated that the country may have placed…

Nerul shrine case puts nurse under probe

A nurse in Navi Mumbai’s Nerul area has been booked after a complaint alleged that she deliberately removed Hindu idols from a home shrine, placed th…

PoK crackdown tests Munir’s Kashmir posture

Pakistani security forces opened fire on protesters in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir this week, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 70, as …

Bhojshala idol removal sparks fresh Dhar dispute

An eight-metal idol of Goddess Vagdevi placed inside the Bhojshala complex in Dhar was removed by the Archaeological Survey of India within hours, se…

Congress contests Natarajan poll rejection

Congress moved the Election Commission of India late on Tuesday after the nomination of Meenakshi Natarajan for the Rajya Sabha election from Madhya …

Congress faces fresh Rajya Sabha setback

Congress efforts to keep its Madhya Pradesh legislators together ahead of the June 18 Rajya Sabha elections were thrown into deeper uncertainty after…

Mamata’s Delhi clout faces a sterner test

Mamata Banerjee’s Delhi visit exposed a sharp change in the political weight surrounding the Trinamool Congress leader, with the capital’s usual urge…

Opposition weighs CJP’s youth pull

Opposition leaders at the INDIA bloc meeting in Delhi on Monday debated whether the Cockroach Janata Party should be treated as a passing protest bra…

Bengal border drive tightens deportation push

West Bengal’s campaign against undocumented migration from Bangladesh has moved into a sharper enforcement phase, with Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikar…

Jaipur demolition sharpens road widening dispute

Jaipur Development Authority demolished Noorani Mosque on Monday during an anti-encroachment operation linked to a road-widening project near the Nan…

New Delhi challenges Pakistan’s terror labelling at UN

India has sharply rebuked Pakistan at the United Nations, accusing Islamabad of using religious terminology to mask a state-backed propaganda campaig…