42+ min ago   (369+ words) The West Bengal government has issued closure notices to 252 madrasas as it reviews Islamic educational institutions in the state. Show-cause notices have also been sent to a hundred other madrasas in the first phase of the verification process. Reports indicate…...

3+ hour, 17+ min ago   (378+ words) The police in Congress-ruled Karnataka have allegedly told organisers of a Lord Ganesha procession not to pass by a mosque. The police order in Mysuru has brought the Congress and the Opposition BJP on the warpath again, with the BJP…...

1+ hour, 27+ min ago   (203+ words) Amid a political row over the BRICS Summit gala dinner menu, the BJP has accused the Congress of trivialising a major diplomatic event by focusing on food rather than policy outcomes. The party said the opposition has failed to raise…...

6+ hour ago   (287+ words) In an interaction with IANS, Deepak Parashar said, “I did not expect this, I am surprised. I have won with very good votes. Now I just want to work for my CINTAA members. I would like them to come back…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (411+ words) Union Home Minister Amit Shah is on a three-day visit to Mumbai from September 12 to 14, during which he is scheduled to visit the Asiatic Society in Fort and attend the sixth Akhil Bharatiya Rajbhasha Sammelan, focused on Hindi, in Vashi....

20+ hour, 28+ min ago   (440+ words) Mamata Banerjee's possible move to contest the assembly bypoll from Nandigram is growing into what could be a thaw, or a dare, between the two factions of the Trinamool Congress (TMC). The rebels have said they won't field a candidate…...

21+ hour, 37+ min ago   (265+ words) A senior faculty member at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda wrote an open letter to Vice Chancellor Prof BH Bhanage, demanding an official policy to curb religious performances on university premises, triggering a massive row on campus. Constitutional secularism…...

23+ hour, 1+ min ago   (712+ words) One nephew keeps being thrown out and taken back in. The other, who had barely got a start, is out too. And now Mayawati has opened the door of the Bahujan Samaj Party to her niece instead, as her succession…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (471+ words) Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal's failure to appear before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in connection with the 2015 Behbal Kalan police firing case has triggered a fresh political slugfest between the Punajb's ruling Aam Aadmi Party and the…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (307+ words) Hoping to make a mark on its own in Punjab, the BJP has chosen the drug-abuse crisis as a primary issue for the 2027 assembly elections due in about six months, with the party announcing a statewide 'Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra…...