Kolkata: Incidents of arson and vandalism at offices of the Trinamool Congress were reported across West Bengal on Monday as BJP workers celebrated their landslide victory in the state. Police said TMC offices in Kolkata’s Tollygunge and Kasba, in Baruipur, Kamarhati, Baranagar in the suburbs, and in Howrah and Baharampur in the districts were vandalised…
MS Shanker The idea that Joseph Vijay can simply ride charisma into stable governance needs a reality check. Electoral momentum is one thing; managing a fractured mandate in Tamil Nadu’s deeply entrenched political ecosystem is quite another. Actor-turned-politician Joseph Vijay has undeniably altered the state’s political landscape. For a political debutant to emerge as the…
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, accompanied by party MLAs, departed for Delhi on Tuesday morning to meet President Droupadi Murmu regarding the recent defection of seven Rajya Sabha MPs to the BJP. On April 24, the Aam Aadmi Party suffered a jolt when seven of its 10 Rajya Sabha MPs — Raghav Chadha, Ashok…
Beijing: At least 21 people were killed and 61 others injured in a massive explosion at a fireworks factory in China’s Hunan province, officials said on Tuesday. The explosion occurred on Monday afternoon at the plant operated by the Huasheng fireworks manufacturing and display company in Liuyang, a county-level city under Changsha, the provincial capital….
If there is one defining feature of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decade-long dominance, it is not merely electoral success—it is the systematic dismantling of India’s once-formidable regional power centres. What we are witnessing is not routine political churn, but a deep structural shift in the country’s power matrix, engineered through strategy, messaging, and relentless ground-level…
Television news loves a good set-piece. Election days, in particular, are treated less as exercises in democratic accounting and more as theatrical productions. Studios are redesigned, wardrobes coordinated, and correspondents deployed like battalions. On this occasion, the spectacle was complete. Regional attire, cultural motifs, a sprawling digital dashboard – everything carefully assembled to convey immersion…
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah congratulated the people of Assam on Monday for a “historic hat-trick mandate”, terming it a strong endorsement of the tireless efforts by the NDA government over the last 10 years under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership to build a secure, peaceful, and progressive state. “This boundless affection and…
Hyderabad: The Telangana government on Monday decided to “hand over” the report of an inquiry into alleged irregularities in power-purchase agreements during the previous BRS regime in the southern state to the CBI. Briefing reporters after a cabinet meeting, Information and Public Relations Minister Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy said former Supreme Court judge Madan B Lokur,…
Mumbai: Rohit Sharma (84) made a gratifying return from an injury-enforced layoff, and Ryan Rickelton (83) gave another account of his hitting prowess as the Mumbai Indians crushed the Lucknow Super Giants by six wickets in their Indian Premier League match here on Monday. Openers Rohit and Rickelton put on their third century partnership in…
Kingston: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday met Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness and discussed ways to further deepen “political, economic and people-to-people cooperation.” Jaishankar also conveyed greetings from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Holness. “Pleased to call on Prime Minister @AndrewHolnessJM in Kingston. Conveyed the greetings of PM @narendramodi,” Jaishankar posted on X….
