As the first leg of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s state-wide ‘Samriddhi (prosperity) Yatra’ comes to a close Saturday, a crowd of more than 10,000 supporters has gathered in Vaishali to hear the Janata Dal (United) supremo’s speech. In his 15th state-wide yatra as the CM, and 16th since 2005, Nitish has so far covered…
4 min readNew DelhiJan 25, 2026 11:54 AM IST First published on: Jan 25, 2026 at 07:35 AM IST Amid the ongoing tussle between the Centre and the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government over a host of issues, West Bengal not having republished the Census 2027 notification in its official gazette issued in June last year…
The Siddaramaiah-led Congress government in Karnataka is set to revive prosecution in two cases involving alleged illegal collection of voter data by a private agency in Bengaluru during the BJP regime in 2022, by filing objections to petitions opposing police investigations. The petitions had resulted in a Karnataka High Court stay on the probe since…
4 min readLudhianaFeb 16, 2026 06:35 PM IST First published on: Feb 16, 2026 at 06:35 PM IST Former Punjab BJP vice-president Arvind Khanna’s “homecoming” to the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Sunday has sparked surprise, coming at a time when his former party has consistently outperformed the SAD in Sangrur in recent elections. The…
4 min readGuwahatiFeb 16, 2026 06:12 PM IST First published on: Feb 16, 2026 at 06:09 PM IST Dramatic scenes played out at former state Congress president Bhupen Borah’s Guwahati residence after he submitted his resignation from the party, with senior leaders from the state unit and the All India Congress Committee rushing there and…
The ongoing Magh Mela in Prayagraj seems to have turned into a political battlefield as parties trade barbs over Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati, the “Shankaracharya” or chief of the Jyotirmath in Uttarakhand, who has been on a sit-in protest after the Uttar Pradesh Police allegedly prevented him from taking a holy dip at the Triveni Sangam…
Two days before the first Republic Day on January 26, 1950, the Constituent Assembly met for the last time on January 24, electing Rajendra Prasad unopposed as the first President of India. Prasad dissuaded the Assembly members from praising him, saying that his work be assessed when he demits office. He announced that Jana Gana…
4 min readJaipurJan 26, 2026 02:32 PM IST First published on: Jan 25, 2026 at 01:03 PM IST As the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls continues in Rajasthan, state Congress president Govind Singh Dotasra and Leader of Opposition Tikaram Jully are leading the Opposition party’s charge against alleged irregularities in the exercise. In…
4 min readMumbaiUpdated: Jan 26, 2026 08:33 PM IST Maharashtra minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Chhagan Bhujbal’s decision to break ranks with his mentor Sharad Pawar and side with nephew Ajit Pawar after the NCP split — aligning with the BJP-led Mahayuti — in 2023 appears to have brought him political rehabilitation, administrative…
The Padma awards were announced on Sunday, with the BJP’s ideological opponents, the late VS Achuthanandan of the CPI(M) and late Shibu Soren of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), making it to the list along with BJP veteran Bhagat Singh Koshyari and the late V K Malhotra, who started his career with the Jana Sangh….