Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Sunday (April 13,, 2025) accused the government of using probe agencies to “paralyse” the Congress and described the development of the Enforcement Directorate issuing notices to take possession of immovable assets in the National Herald case as an “assault on democracy”. “In lip service, we are the mother of … Read more
Security outside Patiala House Court after Tahawwur Rana reached for hearing in New Delhi on April 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap The National Investigation Agency (NIA) questioned Mumbai attacks conspirator Tahawwur Hussain Rana for the second consecutive day to probe larger conspiracy behind the terror strikes of 2008, sources said on Saturday … Read more
File picture of Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari. | Photo Credit: ANI The Centre is planning to invest ₹10 lakh crore over the next two years to strengthen highways across the country, with special focus on the Northeast, where roads will rival those in the U.S., Road Transport and Highways Minister … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi. File | Photo Credit: ANI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (April 13, 2025) paid homage to the people killed in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919 and said the “coming generations will always remember their indomitable spirit”. Hundreds of people protesting peacefully against the Rowlatt Acts, which granted the colonial … Read more
Representative image | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI The story so far: Sixteen years after David Coleman Headley (Daood Gilani) and Tahawwur Hussain Rana were arrested by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed an FIR and a charge-sheet against them, Rana has been extradited to India. His extradition marks … Read more
M. A. Baby | Photo Credit: Illustration: Sreejith R. Kumar In a political landscape ruled by grandstanding and strategising, Mariam Alexander Baby’s election as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) was as quiet as it was resolute. After remaining in the shadows for several years, he emerged as the right choice … Read more
The story so far: On April 8, the Supreme Court declared Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi’s prolonged refusal to give his assent to 10 Bills as illegal and erroneous in law. In a landmark verdict, Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan underscored the importance of cooperative federalism, amid growing concerns over the increasing politicisation of … Read more
The MHA is the nodal Ministry for processing and conveying a final decision through the President of India with respect to State legislations. File. | Photo Credit: PTI The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is likely to file a review petition against the Supreme Court’s April 8 judgement allowing judicial intervention if Governors withhold … Read more
Photo: X/@MartinHarrisOBE A Russian missile struck a warehouse of an Indian pharmaceutical company in Ukraine on Saturday (April 12, 2025), the Ukrainian embassy in India said. In a social media post, the mission alleged that Moscow is deliberately targeting Indian businesses, destroying medicines meant for children and the elderly. Today, a Russian missile struck the … Read more
Smoke and flames billow out from a vehicle after it was set ablaze during riots over the Waqf (Amendment) Act, in Murshidabad district of West Bengal. April 8, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday (April 12, 2025) accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of encouraging targeted violence against … Read more