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Existential moment for AAP? Party’s Punjab MP losses to BJP ‘could trigger domino effect in Delhi’

The exit of key MPs, many from Punjab, may spark a broader shift within AAP ranks. Experts warn councillors and MLAs could follow, gravitating toward BJP as the party’s grip weakens in both states.

Fractured Chautala clan shows signs of thaw amid JJP’s internal storm, but Abhay holds firm

Ranjit Singh, Aditya Devi Lal & Sunaina Chautala have already backed Dushyant in police face-off case. Digvijay says he’ll gather clan, but avoids question of meeting uncle Abhay.

Final phase of Bengal polls days away, Centre gives Niti Aayog berths to BJP-linked Lahiri and Das

Economist Ashok Lahiri, sitting BJP MLA from Balurghat, to replace Suman Berry as VC; scientist Gobardhan Das, who contested on BJP ticket in 2021, to be member

What the Raghav Chadha-led exodus means for AAP & BJP in Punjab, with polls just a year away

Political analysts say the high-profile exits will reinforce the BJP's criticism that Kejriwal’s style of functioning is not just extremely centralised but he also does not tolerate dissent.

Marathi diktat for drivers prompts cautious pushback from Sena voice who championed ‘North Indian’ cause

In his 23 April letter to Transport Minister Sarnaik, Sanjay Nirupam wrote that many auto & taxi drivers had contacted him to convey that they were scared and confused.

73 Oppn RS MPs sign notice seeking removal of CEC Gyanesh Kumar over ‘proven misbehaviour’

New Delhi: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Friday said that seventy-three opposition Rajya Sabha MPs submitted a fresh notice to the Rajya Sabha secretariat...

Body blow to AAP as Raghav Chadha, 6 others quit to join BJP. And ‘there are others’

Once close to AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal, Chadha, along with Sandeep Pathak and Ashok Mittal, Harbhajan Singh, Rajinder Gupta, Vikram Sahney and Swati Maliwal joined the BJP. AAP says it is Op Lotus.

‘Didi on her way out’: Amit Shah predicts BJP win in 110 of 152 seats in Phase 1 polling in Bengal

Union home minister asserted that polling was ‘free & fearless’ and that next CM of West Bengal will be a Bengali and a BJP worker. State reported 92% turnout in phase 1 Thursday. 

How Bengali-speaking Smriti Irani is turning out to be BJP’s ultimate star campaigner in West Bengal

While accompanying Ratna Debnath, mother of the RG Kar rape-murder victim, as she filed her nomination from Panihati, Smriti Irani had lashed out at Mamata over her 'outsider' remark.

Assembly polls: West Bengal logs 78.77% turnout, Tamil Nadu at 70% as of 3 pm

New Delhi: The voter turnout in the ongoing Assembly polling gathered strong momentum by 3 PM on Thursday, with West Bengal leading the charts...

On Camera

Euphoria season 3 is an empty spectacle. Fans are upset, they want it cancelled

Euphoria's characters, who once carried moral ambiguity and emotional density, now feel like flat archetypes of the people they once were.

Strategic petroleum reserves: Why India needs bigger oil buffers & how others compare | Cut The Clutter

This is the transcript of Ep 1830 of Cut the Clutter, where Shekhar Gupta explains why strategic petroleum reserves are a national necessity & how India compares with China, US & Japan.

DRDO unveils amphibious battle platforms with crewless turrets, anti-tank missile capability

Tracked and wheeled variants, built in collaboration with Tata Advanced Systems and Bharat Forge, carry 30mm turrets, cross water using hydro jets, and are 65% indigenous.

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.