A wide gap between the United States and Iran is preventing the conflict from ending and opening up the Strait of Hormuz. Qatar asserts that its mediation efforts between Washington and Tehran are ongoing. Speaking to Al Jazeera TV, Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said efforts are ongoing to ensure the situation does […]
MOHALI: India emerged victorious in a close final on Thursday, scoring four goals in just 11 minutes to defeat Japan 4-1 and clinch their sixth Asian Champions Trophy. The Men in Blue won their third trophy to the kitty by winning two consecutive titles in 2023 and 2024, and remained invincible throughout the championship, winning […]
New Delhi: Ramlila Maidan, one of the largest venues to host political rallies in India, witnessed the INDIA opposition bloc holding a “Vote Bachao, Desh Bachao” rally on Sunday as a show of force against the Election Commission of India. The controversy over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) saw multiple leaders accuse the Election Commission […]
Attackers struck a Panama-flagged oil tanker carrying 27 Indian sailors with limpet mines in the Strait of Hormuz on October 29. The blasts started a fire in the engine room, and the crew put it out, briefly disabling the ship. The vessel is the MT Louise 1 and the Union Shipping Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said […]
The People’s Party of Arunachal fact-finding team says Chinese troops have blocked Indian patrols from Shera-5 near Taksing , prompting denials from the Army and the state home minister. The controversy gained fresh significance after the ITBP chief confirmed face-offs at multiple frontiers along the border. “Within the last few days, multiple face-offs have taken […]
A retort to a heckler has overtaken the substance of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s Sunday speech in Patna, shifting attention from his electoral-roll allegations to language of politics. The BJP launched nationwide protests against him on Monday. Kharge was speaking about alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls when a young […]
Two commuters fell into rain-hidden potholes on the same Coimbatore road in quick succession. Commuters say temporary patches are not working, and the roads were bad even before the rain. In the first incident, a commuter fell into a pothole after losing his balance while travelling on the wet road. Not long before the whole […]
Three weeks before the crush at the Chorbagan Sarbojanin Durga Puja pandal, Kolkata’s police commissioner gave the city’s organisers two instructions: keep entry and exit routes separate, and plan for rain. On Saturday evening, in rain, a surge at the pandal’s exit gate left at least 17 people dead, PTI reports. It called them feared […]
Several film personalities, including Vijay Varma, Huma Qureshi, Imran Khan and Zayn Marie, have publicly backed the nationwide protests demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar and a rollback of the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls. Imran Khan, with his cousin Zayn Marie, joined a protest and were detained by police […]
A security lockdown aimed at protesters has affected daily commuters as the agitation on 10 October stretched into a fourth day of disruption in New Delhi. Police and paramilitary forces locked down much of the north city around 57 metro stations and 240 trains to New Delhi and Nizamuddin stations were cancelled. Mobile internet was […]
Gen Z filled the streets of France, Chile, India and Spain in recent weeks, and their complaints sound alike: they can’t afford the present and don’t trust anyone to fix it. Students lead the movements in France, Chile and India, while Spain’s protests, driven largely by renters, centre on housing. France’s movement started small when […]
By Saturday mid-morning, the roads around Jantar Mantar, the capital’s traditional protest ground, were a maze of barricades, buses and uniforms. The rally was meant to be loud. The state’s answer was to leave nothing for it to stand on. The protest, called by India’s youth-led Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), demanded Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh […]
Delhi woke up on Saturday to a capital closed off to its own protesters, with railways cancelling all trains to and from New Delhi and Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station between 4 am and 2 pm, ahead of the Cockroach Janta Party’s planned protest. “It is a fact that all trains will remain cancelled from New […]
The Opposition leader, Rahul Gandhi, and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were detained after the protest over allegations of vote chori during the Special Intensive Revision exercise here on October 7 in central Delhi. The opposition demands Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation alleging vote chori this agitation against the SIR is part of the opposition’s […]
Delhi has seen this week how quickly a protest against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar can turn tense. On Saturday, October 10, two separate calls to march on Jantar Mantar will test how the capital handles dissent. First, the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke announced the Delhi march after thousands gathered at Mumbai’s […]
Somewhere in the Persian Gulf, a war most Indians have never followed closely enough to name the players is quietly deciding whether their cooking gas cylinder shows up on time. According to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, India buys more than 88 per cent of the crude oil and 60 per cent of […]
Sunday should have been a good day as India won seven medals on Day 8 of the 2026 Asian Games, taking its medal tally to 37. This number would be headline news, but here in Aichi-Nagoya, it only means India has slipped from 10th to 12th place despite the seven new medals. All seven new […]
Every autumn for nearly thirty years, India has arrived at the United Nations General Assembly with the same unfinished business: a permanent seat at the Security Council. This year, at the 81st session, held under the theme “Restoring Trust, Managing Transformation,” New Delhi’s delegation was noticeably sharper. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar told delegates that […]
