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NEW DELHI: Former Tamil Nadu chief minister and DMK president MK Stalin on Sunday launched a fresh attack on the ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam government, questioning its durability and claiming developments in recent months had raised doubts about its future.Speaking at an event where former VCK MLA Panaiyur Babu joined the DMK along with his…
NEW DELHI: Former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot has reignited discussions around the 2022 Congress presidential race and internal party turmoil, saying he would not have refused the top post if offered by Sonia Gandhi and the party leadership.His comments are being seen as reopening old fault lines within the Congress over the leadership transition…
New Delhi: The absence of anaemia estimates from the newly released National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-6 Fact Sheets has sparked questions among public health experts, with the government saying the indicator was excluded because of concerns over the blood-testing method used in previous survey rounds.Health Ministry officials said haemoglobin testing was not carried out in…
Evening news wrap Bishnoi gang claims responsibility for two shootings targeting Indians in Portugal. INDIA bloc to meet in Delhi with 23 parties, amid internal rifts and likely absences of DMK and AAP. Cockroach Janta Party vows nationwide agitation over exam irregularities, demands education minister’s resignation. India dominate Afghanistan in Test as Suthar shines; hosts…
On May 21, India’s power grid hit a number it had never seen before. Demand crossed 270 gigawatts, peaking at 270.73 GW. To put that in context, the entire installed power capacity of the United Kingdom is roughly 80 GW. India was drawing more than three times that in a single afternoon.The reason was heat….
NEW DELHI: 2026 has been a year of Congress‘ re-emergence in southern India. The party won comfortably in the Kerala assembly elections, entered the Tamil Nadu government by supporting Vijay‘s TVK, and also solved the three-year-long tussle over the chief ministerial post in Karnataka.But, just as it seemed that everything was going Congress’s way, regional…
NEW DELHI: The BJP in Tamil Nadu is back at the crossroads. The exit of Annamalai, its former state chief and arguably one of its most recognisable leaders, has once again raised a question the party has been grappling with for years: Can the BJP grow in Tamil Nadu without a strong local face?While formally…
The alarm shrills at 4am. Clothes, ironed the night before, lie ready. The admit card — printed, laminated, triple-checked — waits by the door. Across India, the same ritual unfolds in tens of thousands of homes: hopeful youth rise before dawn, sling bags over shoulders, catch the first bus or train to an exam centre…
BENGALURU: If Karnataka’s CMs are plotted not by party but by regions they came from, a pattern emerges: Its political centre of gravity hasn’t remained fixed. When DK Shivakumar took oath last week, he became the latest stop in a political journey that began in the northern districts, shifted to Old Mysuru, scattered across regions…
Abhijeet Dipke (Image/PTI) NEW DELHI: The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) laid out its next course of action, warning that it will launch fresh protests across the country if union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan is not removed from office or does not resign within the next seven days.The announcement comes after hundreds of students, young professionals…
