China’s opening at Hormuz
Saurabh Mukherjea of Marcellus Investments has framed the crisis in stark terms, arguing that Beijing could use the turmoil to deepen alignment wit…
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Jaishankar call signals India’s watch on Iran crisis
External affairs minister S Jaishankar spoke on Sunday with Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi as fighting and diplomatic manoeuvring across th…
Chidambaram attacks poll-timed Parliament move
Congress leader and former Union minister P Chidambaram has accused the Centre of engineering a politically timed parliamentary sitting that, he sa…
Passport row jolts Assam campaign
A fresh political clash has broken out in Assam days before voting in the state assembly election, after Congress leader Pawan Khera alleged that C…
Kolkata warning deepens Pakistan rhetoric row
Pakistan’s latest warning to India has sharpened concern over the level of public rhetoric now surrounding one of South Asia’s most dangerous rivalri…
Bushehr strike widens Gulf nuclear alarm
Iran’s foreign minister has warned Gulf states that any radioactive fallout from attacks on the Bushehr nuclear plant would devastate nearby Arab c…
ED scrutiny shadows Debasish Kumar campaign
Enforcement Directorate questioning of Trinamool Congress legislator Debasish Kumar has thrust Kolkata’s Rashbehari contest into sharper focus afte…
Malda siege arrest deepens Bengal scrutiny
West Bengal police have arrested advocate Mofakkarul Islam, alleging he was a principal organiser behind the gherao of seven judicial officers in M…
Iran broadens missile pressure on Israel
Iran and allied groups said they had launched “Wave 93” of what Tehran describes as an ongoing retaliatory campaign, targeting Israeli military sup…
Bab el-Mandeb threat raises shipping stakes
Tehran has opened the door to a broader maritime confrontation after parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf signalled that pressure on Iran’s …
Supreme Court backs tougher penalties for superiors
A higher office in the chain of command brings a heavier duty of trust, and misconduct by those at the top can justifiably attract stiffer punishme…
Voter roll row jolts Bengal campaign
Anger over West Bengal’s Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls has pushed the voter-list dispute to the centre of the assembly election cam…
Hormuz vote pared back after pushback
A United Nations Security Council vote on a Bahrain-backed plan to protect shipping through the Strait of Hormuz was pushed to Saturday after inten…
Tehran tests new Hormuz shipping order
Iran is moving to redefine how vessels pass through the Strait of Hormuz, with Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi saying Tehran has almost c…
Bengal contest tightens as BJP tests TMC hold
West Bengal is heading into the 2026 Assembly election with the sharpest two-party contest the state has seen in years, as the Bharatiya Janata Par…
Court rebukes Centre over CISF appeal
New Delhi, April 2: The Supreme Court has imposed costs of Rs 25,000 on the Centre for pursuing what it described as unnecessary litigation in a se…
Pezeshkian seeks opening as Trump hardens line
Masoud Pezeshkian used a direct appeal to the American public on Wednesday to argue that Iran does not seek enmity with ordinary Americans and to s…
Banerjee blames BJP after Malda rebuke
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sharpened her attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday after the Supreme Court delivered a sting…
Markets convulse as Trump hardens Iran threat
Global markets lurched lower on Thursday after US President Donald Trump used a prime-time address to say military objectives against Iran would be…
Guard pressure leaves Pezeshkian boxed in
A struggle between President Masoud Pezeshkian and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has sharpened into a new test of power inside Iran, with a…
CJI rebukes Bengal over Malda siege
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant sharply criticised the West Bengal administration on Thursday over the gherao of judicial officers in Malda, tell…