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Image: IANS, PTI As political campaigning intensifies ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections, an analysis of candidates’ self‑declared assets reveals a striking concentration of wealth among the state’s political class.According to data compiled from election affidavits and published by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), several sitting Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) contesting…

NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi said that India’s foreign policy was Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “personal” policy and called it a “universal joke”. He further accused that the prime minister was “compromised”, adding that he was acting upon US President Donald Trump‘s directions.“Our foreign policy is PM Modi‘s personal foreign…

NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Tuesday dismissed a plea by RJD chief and former railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav seeking to quash a CBI FIR in the alleged land-for-jobs case, holding that the petition was “devoid of merit”. The order was passed by justice Ravinder Dudeja, effectively allowing the investigation and related proceedings…

N Rangasamy (left) and V Vaithilingam NEW DELHI: Puducherry’s Thattanchavady constituency will see Congress MP and former chief minister V Vaithilingam take on incumbent CM N Rangasamy, marking the most high-profile contest in the upcoming assembly election.Rangasamy is also the current Thattanchavady MLA.The Union territory will hold assembly polls on April 9. The counting of…

LJP MP Shambhavi Choudhary (PTI) NEW DELHI: Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) MP Shambhavi Choudhary took a swipe at the opposition in the Lok Sabha, using a couplet from an old “qawwali” that was remixed in last year’s blockbuster Dhurandhar.Participating in the discussion on the Finance Bill, 2026, she accused the opposition of indulging only…