The notice is to come up when the Budget Session of Parliament resumes on March 9. Opinion is already divided within Opposition ranks over the matter, with some voices calling for a less aggressive approach than the one the Congress is pushing. Significantly, the Trinamool Congress did not sign on to the Opposition notice. A…
A new politics is unfolding in Uttar Pradesh, triggered by the Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati episode during Magh Mela in Prayagraj, where the seer was allegedly prevented by police from taking a holy dip in Triveni Sangam on Mauni Amavasya on January 18. Even as the Brahmin politics is heating up in state, it is now…
Ending weeks of speculation and parallel talks across blocs, the Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) on Thursday formally joined the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA), sealing a tie-up that both sides describe as strategic – and urgent. DMDK general secretary Premalatha Vijayakanth and party treasurer L K Sudish met Chief Minister M K Stalin at…
With the political stock of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) at an all-time low and its once-captive Dalit vote base increasingly looking for alternatives, Dalit-centric and Ambedkarite parties across the country are turning their focus to this segment of the electorate ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. While the Chandrashekhar Azad-led Aazad Samaj…
Sources in the RSS said Adityanath paid a courtesy visit to Bhagwat at Saraswati Sishu Mandir in the Nirala Nagar area of Lucknow Wednesday evening. They said that Bhagwat met Adityanath in a one-on-one meeting that lasted nearly 30 minutes. While no formal confirmation came from the RSS or the CM Office regarding the agenda…
2 min readUpdated: Feb 19, 2026 04:06 PM IST Mumbai suburban rail network: Central Railway on Thursday said it carried 127.12 million passengers on the Mumbai Suburban railway network in January 2026. The zonal railway added that during January 2026, a total of 146.29 million passengers travelled on local trains, including 129.08 million suburban and…
In what is being seen as a setback for the ruling CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) government, a division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Tuesday directed the Pinarayi Vijayan dispensation to halt the Nava Keralam programme. The LDF had come under attack from the Opposition, which alleged that the ruling alliance had deployed…
This week, Bhupen Borah, the former Assam Congress president and the party’s campaign committee chairman for the upcoming assembly elections, stirred a storm in Assam politics when he exited the party after more than three decades. Borah, who is set to join the BJP, spoke to The Indian Express about what drove this decision. When…
(Each week, Deputy Editor Liz Mathew maps the changing political landscape from New Delhi, focusing on power equations, policy moves, and shifts in alliances.) Ahead of the 2022 Uttarakhand Assembly elections, the BJP had turned to Pushkar Singh Dhami as the Chief Minister, its third change in the post in four months. When the party…
(As Tamil Nadu gears up for the Assembly polls, every Thursday, Arun Janardhanan decodes the electoral trends, political signals, and campaign moves shaping the contest.) The ruling DMK-led alliance in Tamil Nadu stands at the edge of a crisis it cannot publicly acknowledge. If the Congress insists on power sharing, the forthcoming Assembly election could…