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Sunday, September 21, 2025
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Topic: Opposition leader

49 Lok Sabha MPs suspended for disrupting Parliament proceedings. Tally for both Houses now 141

The MPs suspended on Tuesday include National Conference’s Farooq Abdullah, Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor, Manish Tewari and Karti Chidambaram and Samajwadi Party MP Dimple Yadav.

Republican People’s Party (CHP) elects Ozgur Ozel as new president ahead of Turkey local elections

Ozel, a pharmacist by trade, received 812 of 1,366 possible votes at a tense, hours-long party congress in Ankara that took two rounds.

Delhi HC sees ‘no urgency’, posts hearing to appoint Lok Sabha opposition leader for July

Advocates Manmohan Singh Narula and Susmita Kumari had filed a plea seeking an urgent hearing on the grounds that the Lok Sabha Speaker was not performing the statutory duty.

Vajpayee was an oddball of an RSS man, who ate non-vegetarian food and enjoyed his whisky

Ullekh N.P. in his book, The Untold Vajpayee: Politician and Paradox, writes how RSS backed a reluctant Advani for leader of opposition instead of Vajpayee.

On Camera

Skin cancer is no more an ‘old person’s disease’

The sun isn’t acting alone—it has an accomplice in pollution. Environmental toxins weaken our skin’s natural barrier.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

60 yrs on, veterans recall lessons from 1965 India-Pakistan war. ‘Equipment alone doesn’t win battles’

A common thread runs through the memories of soldiers of the 1965 war—ingenuity, courage and camaraderie that withstood an apparently technologically superior foe.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.