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Colonel Sofiya Qureshi (File photo) The Supreme Court on Friday sharply rebuked the Madhya Pradesh government over the delay in deciding sanction to prosecute minister Kunwar Vijay Shah for his remarks targeting Army officer Sofiya Qureshi after Operation Sindoor, saying “Enough is enough”.A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi directed the…

NEW DELHI: Suvendu Adhikari’s rise as BJP’s choice for chief minister in West Bengal comes after years of positioning himself as the party’s most formidable anti-Mamata Banerjee face in the state. From defeating the Trinamool Congress supremo in her own den to leading the BJP’s aggressive Hindutva-driven campaign, Adhikari steadily emerged as the saffron party’s…

NEW DELHI: The investigation into the Air India AI 171 crash in Ahmedabad, which killed 260 people in June 2025, is in its final stage, and the report is expected to be made public within a month, Union civil aviation minister Rammohan Naidu said on Friday.He added that the probe is being conducted with “seriousness,…

BJP picked Suvendu Adhikari as its West Bengal legislative party leader, who is now set to become the state’s first BJP chief minister. Vijay’s TVK secured the numbers to form the Tamil Nadu government after VCK, CPI and CPI(M) extended support and shall be meeting the Tamil Nadu governor to stake claims for CM position….

NEW DELHI: A Nashik court on Friday remanded Nida Khan, key accused in the alleged sexual harassment and religious coercion case at Tata Consultancy Services’ unit in the city, to police custody till May 11, news agency PTI reported.Khan, who is also an employee of the IT major, was arrested on Thursday from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar…

NEW DELHI: You can choose your friends, but not your neighbours. In India’s case, the neighbour it inherited after Partition was Pakistan, a country with which its ties have been defined by wars, mistrust and recurring conflict ever since Independence.Whenever the two countries have entered direct military confrontation, the outcome has largely remained the same:…

Kolkata, May 08 (ANI): Union home minister Amit Shah congratulates BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari after he is elected as the leader of the West Bengal BJP Legislative Party and set to be the new CM of the state, in Kolkata on Friday. The BJP’s elevation of Suvendu Adhikari as its first chief minister in West…

Suvendu Adhikari with Amit Shah NEW DELHI: In 2021 what seemed largely impossible, five years later it became exhaustively debatable. Can Suvendu Adhikari defeat Mamata in home turf Bhabanipur? The question gained political legitimacy in 2026 given the nail-biting contest in 2021 Nandigram battle, where Mamata had challenged her ex-protege.Taking the battle to Suvendu’s bastion…

Suvendu Adhikari with Amit Shah NEW DELHI: Senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari was on Friday formally elected leader of the BJP legislature party in West Bengal, paving the way for him to become the state’s first BJP chief minister.The BJP legislature party met in Kolkata in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who…

NEW DELHI: TVK has finally achieved the numbers needed to form the government in Tamil Nadu after days of intense political uncertainty, strategic negotiations and shifting alliance equations in the aftermath of the hung assembly verdict.The breakthrough came after Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), Communist Party of India (CPI) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) formally…