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Janata Dal (Secular) expels 3 disqualified Karnataka MLAs for ‘anti-party’ activities

The three disqualified MLAs, along with 14 Congress MLAs, were responsible for bringing down the party's coalition government in Karnataka.

Mehbooba slams ED move to grill Farooq Abdullah, but NC-PDP are far from becoming friends

Mehbooba Mufti’s bid to hold a meeting of all J&K parties on Article 35A may not work, especially after PDP abstained from Triple Talaq vote in Rajya Sabha.

Are we delivering pizzas, critiques TMC MP Derek O’Brien on speedy passage of bills

The Trinamool Congress MP said the way the bills were being passed amounted to a mockery of Parliament and was the government's way of smothering the Opposition.

Allies BJP & Shiv Sena will contest Maharashtra assembly polls together, says CM Fadnavis

Devendra Fadnavis' statement has quelled rumours for now that the two parties might contest separately to accommodate turncoats from Congress & NCP.

How Prashant Kishor is giving a makeover to Brand Mamata and her Trinamool Congress

From launching a website, forming a grievance cell to slamming her own party over 'cut-money', a number of Mamata's recent policies bear the Kishor stamp.

Nitish Kumar’s Muslim problem — he wants their vote but wants BJP too

With Bihar elections a year away and Lalu’s RJD at its lowest point, the JD(U) wants Muslims in its corner. But its alliance with BJP is standing in the way.

Serial party-hopper, ‘Raja of Amethi’ Sanjay Sinh says he quit Congress as it’s ‘headless’

Sanjay Sinh started with Congress in the 1980s, then moved to Janata Dal, then to the BJP. He was back to the Congress, which made him Rajya Sabha MP from Assam.

500 Sikhs from India arrive in Pakistan to celebrate Guru Nanak’s 550th birth anniversary

The Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi issued visas to the Indian Sikh pilgrims under the framework of Pakistan-India Protocol on Visits to Religious Shrines of 1974.

Sanjay Singh criticises Congress for being ‘unaware of future’, quits party to return to BJP

A member of the Amethi royal family, Sanjay Sinh also resigned from his Rajya Sabha seat, saying the Congress was "still in the past".

4 NCP & Congress MLAs resign from Maharashtra assembly, expected to join BJP

Congress MLA Kalidas Kolambkar and NCP's Shivendrasinh Bhosale, Vaibhav Pichad and Sandip Naik handed over their resignation letters separately to Speaker Haribhau Bagade Tuesday.

On Camera

A stronger Iran has emerged from the rubble. US learned the lesson 40 days late

The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.

Data centre gold rush risks blackouts, central electricity body warns states against tripping grids

India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.

Theaterisation proposal to be shared with defence ministry in a week or so—CDS Gen Anil Chauhan

Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.