Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will roll out different legs of the BJP’s ‘Poriborton Yatra’ in West Bengal on Monday afternoon, as the party intensifies its campaign ahead of the 2026 assembly elections. Shah is scheduled to flag off the rath yatra from Raidighi in South 24 Parganas at…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday spoke to his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, to discuss the West Asia situation and conveyed India’s concerns. During his telephonic conversation with Netanyahu, Modi emphasised the safety of civilians as a priority. “Had a telephone call with PM Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the current regional situation. Conveyed…
The time has come to take a hard, honest call on Abhishek Sharma. Let me be clear: this is not a dismissal of his talent. Abhishek is one of the most explosive young batters in Indian cricket today. His range, his bat speed, and his ability to clear the ropes at will make him a…
Two days. That’s all it took for global crude prices to spike and financial markets to wobble. The latest flare-up between Israel and Iran has once again reminded the world of a brutal economic truth: when the Middle East burns, the global economy pays. Oil is the bloodstream of modern commerce, and the Middle East…
Kolkata: Sanju Samson on Sunday admitted that the thought of “what if not” kept creeping into his mind, but he repeatedly brought himself back to the present and reacted to each ball on merit as he carried India into the T20 World Cup semifinals with a splendid 97 not out. Samson’s 50-ball knock, studded with…
Jerusalem: Vowing to deliver a “decisive blow” to Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said he has given instructions to his forces to continue to escalate their offensive over Tehran. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed on Saturday in a coordinated US-Israeli airstrike on Tehran with his death confirmed on Sunday….
New Delhi: Security was heightened across several parts of the national capital following protests and gatherings held to mourn the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, police said on Sunday. Additional police personnel were deployed in sensitive areas, particularly around diplomatic missions and localities with significant Shia populations as a precautionary measure. Khamenei…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday night chaired a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security, the highest decision-making body on security and strategic matters of the country, and it is learnt to have discussed the evolving situation arising out of the fresh conflict in West Asia. The meeting was convened to take…
By A Correspondent It began, quite innocently, over breakfast at a star hotel in city. Coffee was being poured. Toast arrived on cue. Conversations hummed with the usual social politeness. And in one corner of the room, democracy was apparently being concluded. A tight circle had formed around a powerful figure from the government —…
The reported killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a coordinated U.S.–Iraq military operation marks a dangerous inflection point in West Asian geopolitics. Whether justified in Washington as pre-emptive security or regime-neutralisation, the elimination of the head of a sovereign state detonates a far larger question: what remains of the international order when…
