The year 2026 could belong to the Opposition — if it gets it right. The feisty Mamata Banerjee is not going to allow the BJP to walk all over her Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal. In Tamil Nadu, DMK chief M K Stalin still seems to be holding his…
4 min readNew DelhiJan 27, 2026 04:28 PM IST First published on: Jan 26, 2026 at 09:10 PM IST At a time when the Congress in Uttar Pradesh is attempting to strengthen its organisation ahead of the 2027 Assembly elections and improve its standing within a possible alliance with the Samajwadi Party (SP), the exit…
The sun stands for warmth, strength, and new beginnings. Across Indian cultures, it also symbolises clarity and inner power. Many parents look for baby names inspired by the sun, but without falling into overused or predictable choices. Below is a carefully curated list of 10 modern, Indian-rooted baby names that reflect the idea of shining…
Ishan Kishan plays a shot during an ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 cricket match between India and Pakistan, at R Premadasa Stadium, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (PTI Photo) TimesofIndia.com in Colombo: On a surface where timing was a luxury and survival itself felt like an act of resistance, Ishan Kishan produced one of the…
With the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls barely a few months away, Chief Minister and DMK president M K Stalin used the occasion of Tamil Language Martyrs’ Remembrance Day to turn his party’s key ideological line into a poll slogan, casting the upcoming election not just as a political fight but also a civilisational contest. “The…
Protesting against the new University Grants Commission (UGC) regulations, as well as the alleged manhandling of Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati, Provincial Civil Service (PCS) officer Alankar Agnihotri resigned on Monday. A 2019-batch officer, Agnihotri is currently posted as Bareilly City Magistrate. The snap decision created ripples, sources said, with meetings continuing late into Monday evening to…
MUNICH: US secretary of state Marco Rubio has said that India has committed to stop buying Russian oil, days after New Delhi reiterated that “national interests” would be the “guiding factor” for energy procurement.US President Donald Trump, while announcing a trade deal with New Delhi early in Feb, had said India had agreed to not…
(As West Bengal gears up for the Assembly polls, every Tuesday, The Indian Express’s Kolkata bureau chief Ravik Bhattacharya decodes the electoral trends, political signals, and campaign moves shaping the contest.) Along National Highway 12 in Beldanga in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, it is hard to miss a plot of land barricaded by police guardrails….
The Revanth Reddy government has the Bharat Rashtra Samiti cornered over at least four cases, not giving the party led by K Chandrasekhar Rao, or KCR, a breather to plan, regroup, or organise itself after successive electoral losses. This has led the Opposition party on the backfoot, keeping it always on the defensive and unable…
From a tale of two speeches at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos in Swiss Alps to the decks being cleared for “mother of all deals” back home – the coverage of the Urdu dailies over the week was dominated by geopolitics and international trade, which have a crucial bearing on India’s roadmap ahead….