2026

NEW DELHI: India and Nepal share a “very special relationship” and there is now an opportunity to “decisively shift the trajectory” of bilateral engagement to realise its full potential, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday during talks with Nepal foreign minister Shisir Khanal in New Delhi.In his opening remarks, Jaishankar underlined the depth…

NEW DELHI: Cricketer-turned politician Yusuf Pathan on Saturday dismissed reports claiming that the TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee either directly or through Sourav Ganguly had asked him to resign from his Lok Sabha seat to pave the way for her to contest a by-election.In a video shared on social media, Pathan termed the reports “completely false”…

NEW DELHI: Hundreds of supporters of the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) gathered for the first time at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Saturday, taking the social media campaign off screens and into its biggest real-world test.The participants mostly students, young professionals, and some schoolchildren accompanied by parents, assembled in the city’s designated protest zone wearing cockroach…

NEW DELHI: Former Punjab chief minister and senior BJP leader Capt Amarinder Singh on Saturday met Union home minister Amit Shah and BJP national president and Union health minister JP Nadda in New Delhi, days after his public criticism of the party’s decision to appoint Kewal Singh Dhillon as Punjab BJP chief.The meetings come amid…

PATNA: Amid the political row over former Bihar chief ministers Rabri Devi and Lalu Prasad Yadav‘s security status, Janshakti Janta Dal founder and their son Tej Pratap Yadav on Saturday claimed that CM Samrat Choudhary is doing politics over the issue.Speaking to reporters, Yadav said that Rabri Devi told the security personnel to leave after…