4 min readNew DelhiMar 1, 2026 09:54 PM IST First published on: Mar 1, 2026 at 09:54 PM IST After the Iranian state media on Sunday confirmed that the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in Israeli air strikes, the Opposition targeted the Narendra Modi government, accusing it of “betraying Iran to please…
Congress MP and Parliamentary Committee on External Affairs member Manish Tewari speaks to The Indian Express about the US and Israel’s strikes in Iran, the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s retaliation against US bases in Qatar, Bahrain and the UAE. The author of the recently released A World Adrift: A Parliamentarian’s…
At the Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS) meeting of the RSS, scheduled to be held in Samalkha, Haryana, from March 13 to 15, the issue of the UGC Equity Rules is likely to be among the key contemporary matters discussed during the three-day assembly, The Indian Express has learnt. “All contemporary issues concerning society are…
The forcible retirement of Giani Raghbir Singh by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) as head granthi of Harmandar Sahib has deepened the crisis confronting both the apex body managing Sikh shrines and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD). Coming just days after Raghbir Singh publicly accused the SGPC of systemic corruption, the move appears less…
4 min readKolkataMar 1, 2026 07:35 AM IST First published on: Mar 1, 2026 at 07:02 AM IST With the fate of 60.06 lakh registered electors of West Bengal now in the hands of around 500 judicial officers, appointed on Supreme Court orders to decide whether they can remain on the rolls or not, senior…
In the wake of a four-month rigorous process, the Election Commission (EC)’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has virtually concluded in poll-bound West Bengal, with the final voters’ list seeing over 63 lakh deletions or 9% of the total electorate and over 60 lakh voters (8.5%) being placed “under adjudication”. Here are some major…
The below-par participation in a foreign tour of Karnataka Congress MLAs allied with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, a gathering of party MLAs aligned with Deputy CM D K Shivakumar, a sharp exchange between the CM and Union Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) leader H D Kumaraswamy, and a visit by Robert Vadra to Bengaluru. These developments,…
4 min readKolkataFeb 28, 2026 08:50 PM IST After a four-month exercise that saw the Election Commission roll out a series of unprecedented steps specific to the state, and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee personally challenging the process in the Supreme Court, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal concluded Saturday with…
Stepping up for the Rajya Sabha polls scheduled for March 16, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president and former Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday announced two candidates for the four Upper House vacancies from the state, even as the party lacks adequate numbers in the state Assembly to ensure their win. After multiple rounds…
As Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar formally took charge as the NCP national president Thursday, succeeding her late husband Ajit Pawar, the writing was on the wall – that the NCP and the Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) factions are unlikely to reconcile their differences and make a decisive move towards their merger. By asserting…