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NEW DELHI: Days after an open rift with the Aam Aadmi Party leadership, Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha resigned from the party. Chadha, along with six other Rajya members, including Sandeep Pathak and Ashok Mittal, on Friday announced that the three were breaking away from AAP and joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).“The Aam Aadmi…

NEW DELHI: A political row erupted on Thursday after US President Donald Trump reshared a post referring to India as a “hell hole”, triggering sharp reactions from the opposition. The opposition criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his alleged “silence,” calling him a “weak PM.”Taking to X, Moitra mocked the Prime Minister’s rapport with Trump,…

Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge NEW DELHI: The Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday took a serious note of Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as “terrorist”, issuing a stern notice to him. The poll body has asked Kharge to explain his stand within 24 hours.Kharge on Tuesday referred to PM Modi as…

NEW DELHI: Hours before he allegedly raped and murdered a 22-year-old woman inside her south Delhi residence on Wednesday morning, the suspect — a 23-year-old man — allegedly raped another woman and tried to strangle her too in Rajasthan’s Alwar, his hometown.SP (Alwar) Sudheer Choudhary confirmed the development to TOI and said his team received…

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge (File photo) NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a “terrorist” and later issued a clarification, in remarks expected to trigger political controversy during the ongoing election season.Kharge made the statement in Chennai at a press conference on the final day of campaigning…

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday came down heavily on West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee over her alleged intervention during an Enforcement Directorate probe at the I-PAC director’s residence in Kolkata.The top court described the socio-political climate in the poll-bound state as an “extraordinary situation,” while referring to…

. NEW DELHI: Parliament has voted down the government’s proposal to expand the Lok Sabha from 543 to 850 seats, implement 33% reservation for women, and redraw constituencies accordingly, but the defeat has not closed the issue. If anything, it has exposed how a once-technical constitutional mechanism has become one of the most consequential unresolved…

NEW DELHI: A united opposition on Friday spurned PM Narendra Modi’s last-minute appeal for a “conscience vote” and home minister Amit Shah‘s offer to write into the women’s reservation bill that Lok Sabha seats in all states will go up by 50% to inflict on govt its first legislative defeat in 12 years, with the…

A tip-off about a Hindu woman observing Ramzan fasts at a TCS Nashik BPO unit triggered a police investigation NASHIK: For nearly a month, a group of police personnel in plainclothes interacted with the staffers at the BPO unit of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in Nashik and reporting back to their seniors. What they gathered…

TOI correspondent from Washington: The US military said it will begin enforcing President Trump-announced blockade of the Hormuz Strait at 10 am EST on Monday (730 pm IST), while clarifying that the embargo will only apply to vessels entering or departing Iranian ports and not other Gulf entrepots. “CENTCOM forces will not impede freedom of…