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…
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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…
Uttarakhand defections deepen BJP unease
Six senior political figures from Uttarakhand, most of them associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party, have joined the Congress in New Delhi, hand…
Paes shifts court in Bengal
Leander Paes, one of the country’s best-known sporting figures, has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, leaving the Trinamool Congress weeks before …
Commercial LPG surge deepens cost strain
Commercial LPG prices used by restaurants, hotels and other businesses have been raised by ₹195.50 per 19-kg cylinder from Tuesday, taking the Delh…
India presses tariff relief in U.S. talks
New Delhi has put forward what officials describe as a revised “final” trade offer to Washington, but the sharper priority appears to be securing t…
Dubai tanker strike jolts Gulf shipping
Flames tore through a fully loaded Kuwaiti crude tanker anchored off Dubai on Tuesday after what Kuwaiti state media and multiple international rep…
Bengal poll shows Mamata ahead again
Mamata Banerjee appears on course to return to power in West Bengal for a fourth straight term, with the latest VoteVibe Vote Tracker projection pu…