scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Monday, April 13, 2026
HomePolitics

Politics

Sachin Pilot says he has support of 30 Congress MLAs, puts Gehlot’s Rajasthan govt in trouble

Rajasthan Deputy CM Sachin Pilot won’t attend Congress legislative party meeting Monday as party scrambles leaders from Delhi to tide over crisis.

Politics of terror has to end, BJP’s Ram Madhav says in Kashmir, attacks separatists, NC, PDP

Without naming anyone, BJP general secy Ram Madhav says some people are using scrapping of Article 370 to support violence, while others sit & mourn at home.

Why Sachin Pilot is unlikely to go the Scindia way in his tussle with Ashok Gehlot

Rajasthan CM Gehlot & Deputy CM Pilot haven’t seen eye-to-eye since 2018, but Congress insiders say there are many reasons why there won’t be a repeat of MP.

Gehlot and Pilot in fresh tussle but ‘no immediate threat’ to Congress govt in Rajasthan

No official confirmation from Congress on Sachin Pilot meeting Sonia Gandhi & Rahul Gandhi in Delhi, but senior leader said 'matter will be resolved today'.

Week before MP budget, Shivraj govt without a finance minister. No portfolio allocation yet

At the root of the problem is the Scindia faction, which helped topple the previous Congress government in Madhya Pradesh, seeking plum ministries.

‘EC to decide’ — Deputy CM Sushil Modi now says Bihar polls could depend on Covid situation

After insisting that Bihar elections will be held as scheduled, even as oppn has been calling for a delay, Deputy CM Sushil Modi now says NDA will abide by what EC decides.

Karnataka plans blanket ban on cow slaughter, to bring in more stringent version of 2010 bill

Under the 2010 bill, slaughter of cows, calf of a cow and bull, bullock, buffalo male or female and calf of a she-buffalo is prohibited.

Sonia Gandhi appoints Hardik Patel as Gujarat Congress working president

Patel, who led the Patidar reservation agitation in Gujarat, had joined the Congress in March 2019 but did not contest in the Lok Sabha elections that year.

Sonia Gandhi asks Congress MPs to push for Parliament session, LAC stand-off to be raised

In a video conference, Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi discusses issues that should be raised in Parliament to corner the Modi government.

Bengal BJP MPs say Mamata govt held no meetings of DISHA, Nadda tells them to ‘gherao’ DMs

BJP MPs have complained to party chief JP Nadda that no DISHA meetings were held since 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Ruling TMC says BJP is trying to defame the Bengal govt.

On Camera

Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar didn’t have a cabaret-classical split. It was about genre, style

Consider Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar’s duet ‘Chhod Do Aanchal’. The sequence was set in a flower garden, and the girl’s bashfulness was not even remotely relatable to a cabaret dancer.

Fuel shock hits Asia’s rice bowl as farmers cut planting

War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.