The Hindu (Madurai)
Over 500 detained amid stir against CEC in Delhi
Protests seeking the removal of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar and the suspension of the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls entered their third day on Sunday, with demonstrations continuing in New Delhi and...
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Protests persist as Rahul calls for joint ‘resistance’
As Opposition leaders, civil society activists, and youth organisations on Saturday continued their protests seeking the removal of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar and suspension of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls, the...
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Youth, leaders detained amid protests for CEC’s resignation
Opposition parties, civil society activists, youth and student organisations held protests across the country on Friday demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar. In Mumbai, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)led...
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UAE probes ‘terror’ link to flight incident
The UAE announced on Thursday it was probing a possible “terrorist” link to an apparent attack by a pilot on board a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv that saw passengers reroute the plane to stop it from crashing. The dramatic events on Wednesday ended...
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Israel-bound plane drops 16,000 ft in a minute as pilot stabs colleague
An Indian pilot on a flight from the United Arab Emirates to Israel was stabbed by his copilot who was apparently trying to crash the aircraft on Wednesday, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Passengers and crew subdued the attacker,...
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Suspend SIR as its constitutional validity is doubtful, says Congress
Alleging a “matchfixing” among Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, the Congress Working Committee (CWC) on Tuesday demanded Mr. Modi’s resignation, the removal of the CEC, an...
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EC in damage control mode after facing flak over SIR
The Election Commission (EC) on Saturday announced a slew of measures addressing concerns over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls across the country, including stopping physical hearings for unmapped voters or those with...
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Congress leads protests seeking CEC’s exit, arrest
he Congress on Friday led nationwide protests demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, accusing him of compromising the integrity of India’s electoral process, with the party’s general secretary (organisation), K.C....
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Polls rigged, CEC should quit immediately: Rahul
Elections in India are being rigged, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar acted as “deshdrohis (traitors)” by destroying the country’s votes, Leader of the Opposition in...
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Opposition calls for CEC’s exit over ‘illegal conduct’
Opposition parties on Wednesday sought the removal of Gyanesh Kumar as the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) after an Indian Express expose claimed that two of the three members of the Election Commission (EC), Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, had...
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Cannot penalise refusal to sing National Song, says SC
The Supreme Court on Tuesday observed that while a democratically elected government may give shape to the scope and length of the National Song, it cannot violate individual and collective religious freedoms or subject conscientious objectors, who...
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IndiaNew Zealand FTA to come into effect on Oct. 20
The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and New Zealand that was ratified on Monday and comes into effect on October 20 aims at doubling bilateral trade to ₹35,000 crore in the “next four to five years”, according to Union Commerce Minister Piyush...
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Tata Sons Board did not meet conditions: Trusts
Tata Trusts, the majority owner of Tata Sons, has challenged the validity of the holding company’s September 17 decision to reappoint N. Chandrasekaran as the chairman of its Board, arguing that its Articles of Association (AoA) require affirmative...
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Developing nations wrongly blamed for emissions: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the responsibility for carbon emissions had often been “wrongly placed” on developing countries. He also claimed that India was the only G20 country to have fulfilled all the commitments it made at the...
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Tamil Nadu govt. writes to Centre seeking to change the operator of Chennai airport
In a significant development, Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking to change the operator of the Chennai airport. Unhappy with a few aspects of the airport, the State has asked the Centre to bring in an...
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U.S. clears Russia sanctions Bill; India faces tariff threat
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation targeting Russia’s energy sector, individuals and the “shadow fleet” of tankers, including authorising the U.S. President to impose tariffs of up to 100% on India and other countries for...
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Pakistan corvette collides with Indian Navy warship
APakistan Navy corvette collided with a frontline Indian Navy warship after approaching it at high speed and manoeuvring in an “unsafe and unprofessional” manner in the North Arabian Sea on Tuesday evening. The incident prompted India to summon...
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Merchants face 0.4% fee on UPI payment above ₹2,000
he National Payments Corporation of India has introduced a charge of 0.4% that most merchants will have to pay banks and payment processors on UPI payments they receive in excess of ₹2,000 per transaction, it said on Tuesday. The charge, or Merchant...
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Modi ags weaponisation of tech, critical minerals
Warning against the “weaponisation” of technology and access to critical minerals, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday highlighted new BRICS initiatives to strengthen supply chains and increase resilience against disruptions, pandemics, and climate...
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BRICS countries adopt New Delhi Declaration
India forged a consensus of BRICS countries on Saturday, after Iran and the United Arab Emirates agreed to a last-minute compromise on the language used about the war in West Asia, allowing the 11-member grouping to adopt the New Delhi Declaration at a...
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End Ukraine war, says Modi as he meets Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin, the rst foreign dignitary to arrive here for the BRICS Summit, held a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday and reviewed the full spectrum of bilateral ties. Sources said the two sides...
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SC asks Centre to review NEET-SS cut-o decision
he Supreme Court asked the Union government on Thursday to reconsider its decision not to reduce the cut-o percentile for National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Super-specialty (NEET-SS) seats in the current year, while expressing concern about a...
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Modi hits out at critics as he opens freight corridor
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday took a dig at the Opposition over the newly inaugurated dedicated freight corridor, saying critics would still complain like a “naraz fufa” (grumpy uncle) and manufacture grievances, while dismissing Congress...
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Delhi HC calls for audit of hostels; collapse toll hits 7
The death toll in the collapse of a building housing students in the Satya Niketan area rose to seven on Monday, even as the Delhi High Court expressed deep concern over the safety of students living in similar paying guest (PG) accommodations across...
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India, China hold military talks in Arunachal Pradesh
Amid concerns over con icting territorial claims and military build-up along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the Indian and Chinese Armies held their rst Corps Commander-level meeting in the Eastern Sector on Sunday, marking a signi cant expansion...
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Glacial collapse unlikely to halt China’s plan to build mega dam
Fresh concerns triggered by the devastating glacial collapse along the Nepal-China border are unlikely to sway Beijing’s plans to go ahead with the construction of a mega dam on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo, or the Brahmaputra river, in a...
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Bar Council has no power to punish law students: SC
The Supreme Court on Thursday declared that the Bar Council of India (BCI) and its Chairperson, Manan Kumar Mishra, lack jurisdiction to discipline or penalise law students, rebuking the regulatory body’s attempts to intimidate NALSAR students...
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SC orders oversight of Bar Council’s policy decisions
The Supreme Court on Wednesday made it clear that senior advocate Manan Kumar Mishra is serving only as the “pro tem” chairperson of the Bar Council of India (BCI) until fresh elections are held and directed the apex lawyers’ body to consult the...
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Top court quashes FIRs against Gen Z protesters
The Supreme Court, at the urging of the Centre, took a rare and extraordinary step on Tuesday to quash criminal cases registered against Gen Z protesters involved in nationwide stir linked to the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) following the NEETUG, 2026...
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Ensure peace, freedom of navigation, PM urges Iran
In the rst top-level meeting between Iran and India since the beginning of the Iran war in February, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek and urged him to ensure peace and...
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India, Uzbekistan upgrade ties, agree on uranium deal
India and Uzbekistan on Sunday decided to elevate their ties to a comprehensive strategic partnership and set a target of $5 billion in annual trade by 2030 following talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uzbek President Shavkat...
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Rescue e orts on a war footing in Nepal as disaster toll hits 675
The death toll from Nepal’s devastating ash ood rose to 675 on Saturday, as authorities said rescue operations continued for a fourth day, though hindered by the remoteness of the region. The country’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management...
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Nepal disaster toll rises to 579; nearly 2,000 missing
The death toll in the Nepal ash oods touched 579 on Friday, even as the search for nearly 2,000 missing people continued for the third day after the disaster struck. The Nepal Police said more than 4,500 people had been rescued. Of the 183 Indian...
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Nepal ood toll hits 389; rescue work on
The death toll in the ash ood in Nepal’s Rasuwa district bordering Tibet touched 389 on Thursday, with 910 people still missing. Nepal’s government issued a fresh ood alert after satellite imagery showed that a lake had formed upstream of the...
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157 killed in Nepal ash ood, hundreds missing
At least 157 people were killed and more than 400 people, 133 Indians among them, were missing or out of contact after a massive ¤ash ¤ood in Nepal’s Bhotekoshi River swept through villages in Rasuwa, a district bordering China’s Tibet region, on...
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India, China discuss ways to push border delimitation
India and China on Tuesday said they had discussed advancing talks on delimiting parts of the disputed border, as National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met in Beijing. A statement from the Indian Embassy here said...
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Three newborns killed in Maharashtra hospital re
Three newborns were killed and 36 rescued after a re broke out at the Special Newborn Care Unit (SNCU) of the District Women’s Hospital in Amravati, Maharashtra, in the early hours of Monday. The police said the blaze started after a ventilator...
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U.S. MoU best way out of war, says Iran President
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian on Sunday defended a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the United States as the best way out of a stalled war while also acknowledging that his country’s citizens face “many problems”. The MoU signed in midJune...
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Cong. alleges bulk voter purge bid in Uttarakhand
Congress leaders in Uttarakhand have alleged that the Election Commission (EC) is accepting and processing unveried bulk applications to delete voters’ names during the claims and objections period of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of...
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CJP team attacked over attempt to inspect school
Ateam of Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) activists was allegedly assaulted and chased out of Rampura-Kanwarpura village near Jaipur on Friday, when it attempted to inspect a government school as part of the organisation’s ‘School Thik Karo’ campaign. The...
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1978 ‘industry’ de nition void under new code: SC
Ina verdict in which judges varyingly differed on issues, a nine-member Bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday held that a nearly halfcentury-old expansive interpretation of ‘industry’, which previously granted workers stronger labour rights and...
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NTA reforms should have meaningful continuity: SC
The Supreme Court on Wednesday emphasised the need for institutionalising reforms within the National Testing Agency (NTA) while indicating that the government must not hop from one committee to the next in search of solutions. The court made it clear...
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Ready to drop FIRs against student protesters, says SC
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to use an exceptional power under Article 142 of the Constitution to quash rst information reports (FIRs) registered against students who joined the nationwide protests against NEET-UG paper leaks that led to the...
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Soren scraps examinations as protests rock Jharkhand
harkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Monday announced the cancellation of the Jharkhand Sta Selection Commission-Combined Graduate Level ( JSSC-CGL) examination, 24 days after students and job aspirants began a protest over alleged irregularities...
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Bangladesh sets ‘conditions’ for Rahman’s visit to India
The Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign A airs said on Sunday that ocials from New Delhi and Dhaka have been in talks for “several weeks” for a possible visit to India by Prime Minister Tarique Rahman. It also said that the atmosphere of bilateral...
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PM takes note of Gen Z anxieties, warns against ‘intellectual Naxals’
Addressing the nation from the ramparts of Red Fort on the 80th Independence Day of India, just days after massive youth protests rocked the capital, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed a seven-point economic reform plan and an outreach to Gen Z...
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India helps China evade tari s, claims U.S. report
ndia is once again in U.S. crosshairs, this time for allegedly allowing China to evade U.S. taris by routing its exports through the country. The latest allegations are part of a new White House report called ‘The Great Transshipment Scam’. In...
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Goods exports surge 20% as India diversi es trade
Despite the ongoing turmoil in West Asia, India’s merchandise exports saw a growth of nearly 20% in July this year, faster than that of imports, o cial data released on Thursday show. Notably, exports to West Asia itself have recovered, with July’s...
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Retail in ation hits 19-month high of 4.45% in July
Retail in¤ation in India rose to a 19-month high of 4.45% in July, driven up by higher food and fuel prices, o¨cial data released on Wednesday showed. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme...
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Karnataka told to release Cauvery water from today
he Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA), which met in Delhi on Tuesday, armed and endorsed the decision by the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC) to direct Karnataka to ensure the release of Cauvery water at the rate of 12,000 cusecs a day...
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Protesters march to Jharkhand Assembly; 5 injured in clashes
Thousands of students and job aspirants from across Jharkhand marched towards the State Assembly in Ranchi on Monday, breaking through barbed barricades and reaching the Assembly gates as their inde nite strike over alleged irregularities in government...
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Netanyahu rejects Trump’s 15-point proposal for Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected a U.S.-led Gaza plan endorsed by Hamas, putting distance between himself and U.S. President Donald Trump as he tries to shore up his base ahead of close elections. After more than a week of...
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Over 1.5 cr. names o poll rolls in latest phase of SIR
More than 1.5 crore names have been deleted so far from the existing voter lists in the ongoing third phase of the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls conducted by the Election Commission. Of the 16 States and three Union Territories...
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Ocers to camp at rail accident sites to help probe
Senior railway o¤cers probing train accidents have been directed to camp at accident sites to expedite investigation and ensure that inquiry reports are completed within the prescribed time frame. According to railway sources, a safety review of...
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DMK lays down conditions to support delimitation Bill
As the Narendra Modi government explores the possibility of bringing in a constitutional amendment Bill to carry out a fresh delimitation exercise, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) may consider extending support if the Centre revises the legislation...
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Rijiju meets Rahul in bid to end Parliament logjam
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju met Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday in an eort to break the deadlock in Parliament, with the two sides discussing the proposed delimitation Bill and the Foreign...
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Udhayanidhi Stalin held for ‘misogynist’ remarks
Tamil Nadu’s Leader of the Opposition and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) youth wing leader Udhayanidhi Stalin was on Tuesday morning arrested by police following a complaint led by a functionary of the ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) who...
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T.N. moves SC to press for release of Cauvery water
The Tamil Nadu government headed by Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay moved the Supreme Court on Monday for a direction to the State of Karnataka to implement a Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) decision of July 30 to ensure the release of 3,500...
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Cauvery situation slightly better, says Karnataka CM
Stating that the water situation in the Cauvery was “slightly better” in view of the rain, Karnataka Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar on Sunday reiterated his appeal to the Kannada organisations to withdraw their State-wide bandh plan for August...
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Eight killed as extremely heavy rain lashes Kerala
Eight people died in rain-related incidents in Kerala as a spell of intense rain battered the State from Friday night into Saturday, triggering landslips, ashoods, and widespread destruction, particularly in hilly regions. This comes barely a month...
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Four-storey building collapse leaves 10 dead in Maharashtra
At least 10 people were killed and three injured after a fourstorey residential building, declared “dangerous” by the civic body in September 2020 and undergoing illegal repairs, collapsed in Bhiwandi city in Maharashtra late on Thursday...
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Pellet guns part of graded police response, says SC
The Supreme Court on Thursday said the use of pellet guns by the police in “exceptional circumstances” was part of a graded approach to break civilian protests. The court, however, did not expand on which “exceptional circumstances” justied the use...
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SC restricts ‘retrospective’ environmental clearances
The Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed, with prospective eect, a 2021 Oce Memorandum (OM) granting ex post facto environmental clearances to infrastructure projects, holding that the Union government cannot substantially alter protective...
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Release all minors held over student protests: SC
he Supreme Court on Tuesday indicated that it would consider constituting a high-powered investigation team to conduct a “thorough, fair, and independent” inquiry into allegations of police excesses during the recent student protests in Delhi and...
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CJP warns of fresh protests over govt.’s ‘promise breach’
he Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on Monday warned of fresh protests, accusing the Centre of violating its assurance that no punitive action would be taken against protesters. “We are observing a complete breach of the agreement regarding no police...
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Nilekani to lead high-powered task force on exam reforms: PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday announced the constitution of a highpowered task force, to be headed by former UIDAI Chairman Nandan Nilekani, to recommend steps to make the country’s examination system leak-proof and technology-driven. The...
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Dharmendra Pradhan quits; CJP calls o stir
As the student protests over paper leaks spread across dierent States and snowballed into a major political crisis for the Narendra Modi government, Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as the Education Minister on Saturday, prompting the Cockroach Janta Party...
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SC agrees to hear pleas alleging police excesses at CJP’s march
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear on Monday two freshly instituted petitions alleging police excesses during the July 20 crackdown on student protesters in the national capital. The development came hours after Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya...
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Supreme Court to hear Goa Congress leader’s petition against defection of MLAs to BJP
The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a plea challenging a decision of the Goa Assembly Speaker rejecting a petition by the Congress for disquali cation of eight of its MLAs who defected to the ruling BJP in 2022. A Bench comprising Chief...
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Delhi HC seeks govt. response on police actions during CJP march
he Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Centre and the Delhi Police to respond to a batch of public interest litigation (PIL) petitions alleging that the police used excessive force against students and other protesters during the Parliament march...
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Congress leaders detained after dharna at PM’s house
he principal Opposition party, the Congress, on Tuesday took the leadership of the anti-government agitation protesting against the spate of paper leaks and seeking education reform, with the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi,...
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Several hurt in crackdown on CJP Parliament march
Several people were injured here on Monday when the police cracked down on a Parliament march called by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) seeking the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan even as the government reached out to the...
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Cup of nostalgia: The Hindu Lit for Life Unplugged takes a stroll down the lanes of history in Kolkata
“That side,” said Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri awardee Usha Uthup, pointing towards the right corner of Trincas, a restaurant in Kolkata’s Park Street, “is where Sharmila Tagore and the Nawab of Pataudi would sit.” Then she swept her hand across the...
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Police move Wangchuk to hospital on Day 21 of fast
Activist Sonam Wangchuk was whisked away by police from the Jantar Mantar protest site on Saturday morning, in a setback for the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)-led protest demanding resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Mr....
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SC opposes use of SIR data for non-poll tasks
The Supreme Court stated on Friday that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is only linked to elections as a petition said the West Bengal government is using SIR data to delete names from schemes ensuring food security, women’s welfare and Backward...
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