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Rahul’s blessings & a 6-7 month itinerary—Congress’s Birender Singh plans big with Sadbhav Yatra

Beginning 5 October from Danoda, the yatra will be like Bharat Jodo Yatra & will cover all the 90 assembly segments of the BJP-ruled Haryana.

After Rudy’s victory in bitterly contested Constitutional Club polls, Balyan hints at ‘rigging’

Lucknow: The elections last month for the post of administrative secretary of Delhi’s Constitution Club have brought out in the open the internal fissures...

‘Deals to save nephew’—cracks emerge in INDIA bloc as Congress attacks TMC on Mamata’s turf

Congress inducts former CPI(M) leader Prasenjit Bose. He says he is joining the Cong to strengthen Rahul's fight to safeguard the Constitution. Also says no vacancy for Mamata in PM's office.

Jagan junked Naidu’s pet projects. Now Andhra CM’s repurposing his arch rival’s welfare-industry script

Naidu is reviving his projects dismantled by Jagan, from Amaravati to Anna Canteens, while expanding the YSRCP ex-CM's welfare ambit & taking further his predecessor's industrial plans.

Congress a ‘protector of infiltrators’, stood with Pakistan Army during Op Sindoor: Modi in Assam

Addressing a rally in Assam’s Darrang after inaugurating projects, the PM accused Congress of not standing with Indian armed forces & spreading lies from Islamabad.

Can PK lift Bihar’s spirit? Poll promise of revoking liquor ban finds support across villages

Lifting liquor ban isn’t Jan Suraaj’s only promise. For voters looking for change & who don’t see Lalu’s RJD as alternative, Kishor represents new hope, one Nitish embodied in his early years.

EPS caught in political bind after reviving demand to rename Madurai airport after Thevar icon

EPS has declared that if it returns to power in Tamil Nadu next year, AIADMK will push the Centre to rename Madurai airport after Thevar community icon Pasumpon U Muthuramalinga.

As HC upholds his arrest, a look at Congress ex-MLA Dharam Chhoker’s saga of legal tussles with ED

Dharam Chhoker’s plea to quash arrest fails as HC cites repeated non-cooperation, multiple non-bailable warrants, and Enforcement Directorate’s need for his custodial interrogation.

Opposition made Northeast ‘suffer greatly’ through vote bank politics: PM Modi in Mizoram

While inaugurating Mizoram's first national railway line, Bairabi-Sairang line through live video conferencing, PM Modi blamed Congress for ignoring Northeast.

CPI’s Kerala conference ends with call for LDF hat trick, and ‘public sentiment’ signal to ally CPI(M)

Delegates flag certain policies of Pinarayi govt and allegations of custodial torture against Kerala police. The CPI is the largest ally of the ruling CPI(M) in Kerala.

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.