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Polls over, energy prices soaring due to West Asia crisis, fuel rate hike on table

WITH INTERNATIONAL oil and fuel prices persisting at supernormal levels in the international market due to the west asia crisis and polling in state elections over, a hike in prices of fuels like petrol, diesel and domestic LPG could be in the offing...

Guard EVM strong rooms, exit polls fixed, Mamata tells party

a day after polling concluded in West Bengal and most exit polls gave the opposition BJP the edge, TMC chief and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged party workers and people of the state to guard strong rooms where electronic Voting Machines (evms)...

The votes are in: West Bengal’s overall turnout a record 92.5%

the High-stakes battle between the ruling TMC and opposition BJP for control of West Bengal ended Wednesday with the state witnessing a record voter turnout of 91.66% in the second and final phase of polling for 142 Assembly seats in the House of...

Final round today, ec adds 1,468 names to voter list after 139 in Ph-1

JUST BEFORE the second phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections on Wednesday, 1,468 names were added back to the electoral roll. In the case of six, the tribunals said their names cannot be included. However, there is no clarity on the overall...

Cement and cars coming in, apple baskets going out: Freight supplies hit high gear on Kashmir’s rail link

On april 22, milk became the latest commodity to be transported to anantnag over the railway link to the valley opened in July last year, arriving from linch railway Station in ahmedabad Division. Data shows that between august 2025 and march 2026,...

Close call for Trump as gunman opens fire near his event venue

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump were rushed out of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington by Secret Service agents Saturday night after a man opened fire on security personnel nearby. The man fired a...

In major setback to AAP, seven of its 10 Rajya Sabha MPS cross over to BJP

STUNNED BY the exit of seven of their 10 Rajya Sabha members, AAP insiders said Friday they were aware of a storm brewing for the last “week to ten days” following the party decision to remove Raghav Chadha, one of its most visible faces, as the AAP...

92.9% Bengal, 85.1% TN

Over 96% polling in Bengal seat with highest SIR deletions in Phase 1 BOTH WEST Bengal (first phase) and Tamil Nadu recorded their highest-ever voter turnouts in the Assembly elections on Thursday. In West Bengal, where 152 of the total 294 Assembly...

‘Won’t achieve goals by bullying’: Iran says US violating ceasefire

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump called off attacks on Iran with no sign of peace talks restarting. Trump maintained the US Navy blockade of Iran's trade by sea, and Iran's parliament speaker and top negotiator Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf said a full ceasefire...

Battlelines drawn: Campaign draws to an end in Tamil Nadu, first phase of Bengal

ON THE final day of campaigning in Tamil Nadu, when veteran leaders were moving through familiar constituencies and party machines were settling into their closing routines, the state’s most unpredictable candidate closed as he had opened: as...

To delete voters, EC cites ‘logical discrepancy’. Why this defies logic

• SUKLA HAZRA, 55, has her name in the electoral roll of 2002, when an Intensive Revision was held by the Election Commission in West Bengal, and holds a passport valid till December 2028. • Amiran Begum Ali, 56, and daughters-in-law Arifa Begum...

Sending team to Pak for talks, take deal or face attacks: Trump to Iran

IRAN REJECTED new peace talks with the United States, its state news agency reported on Sunday, hours after US President Donald Trump said he was sending envoys for talks in Pakistan and would launch new strikes on Iran unless it accepts his...

Theatre Takes an Epic Turn

With grand sets and costumes, soaring music and spectacle, mythologies and epics have taken over the stage, commanding attention usually reserved for films

Opposition stands, women’s Bill falls

IN THE first major legislative loss for the Modi government since it came to power in 2014, the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026, seeking to advance reservation of 33% seats for women in an expanded Lok Sabha and state Assemblies and...

Govt plan: Keep south share unchanged in LS, list each state’s new count in ‘schedule’

THE GOVERNMENT will most likely bring on thursday a ‘schedule’ in Parliament to clearly specify the number of Lok Sabha seats for each state, and this will show that the percentage share of each state in the Lok Sabha’s total strength is the same as it...

Six ships turned around as part of Hormuz blockade, says US military

NO SHIPS have made it past a US naval blockade of Iran's ports and coastal areas, and six merchant ships have followed orders to turn back, the US military said on Tuesday, providing the first details on a day-old effort ordered by President Donald...

If win margin 2%, deletions 15%... what will happen: SC

CALLING THE right to vote the “biggest expression of nationality and patriotism...in a democratic government”, the Supreme Court Monday raised questions on the exclusion of voters in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal and flagged...

Rs 1.5 lakh a shot, ‘magic’ cancer drug leaked from top hospitals, fakes sold to desperate patients

ONE OF the world’s fastest growing cancer populations and one of the world’s most powerful and pricey cancer drugs intersect in a story set in a modest house in Punjab. In early 2022, a 56-year-old woman near Chandigarh began treatment for liver...

A Toast to Better Times

Nashik may have given India a taste of the Napa Valley but beyond the scenic charm and weekend crowds lies another story — of Indian wineries still fighting for a place at the table

Islamabad turns into fortress for peace talks between Iran and US

PAKISTAN'S INTERIOR minister Mohsin Naqvi on Friday reviewed the security arrangements in Islamabad ahead of the arrival of the Iranian and US delegations for peace talks aimed to end the conflict in West Asia. The US and Iran agreed to a two-week...

Beirut digs for survivors, counts the dead as toll from ‘deadliest’ strikes rises to 303

AMBULANCES ARRIVING at a Beirut hospital on Thursday bypassed the emergency room and drove straight to the morgue, where exhausted medics unloaded a succession of bags of body parts for relatives to identify before burial. Nearly 24 hours after...

In fabric hub Surat, labour exit adds to raw material crisis, output halved

TWO WEEKLY offs, no night shifts and community kitchens. Surat, the hub of man-made fibre industry in the country, is struggling to keep the wheels turning as the West Asia war squeezes it from both ends. While rising raw material prices have hit...

Eye on ‘third coming’, Pinarayi spends last stretch of campaign in his own seat

AT MYLULLIMOTTA village, election posters hanging from coconut trunks and plastered onto roadside walls all say one thing: “Moonnam varavu (the third coming).” The posters carry the image of the man who wants to make a third term, for both him and the...

Dhurandhar sweeps

BOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTER Dhurandhar swept the Chetak Screen Awards 2026 with 14 wins at a glittering ceremony on Sunday, including Best Actor (Male) for Ranveer Singh, Best Director for Aditya Dhar and Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male) for Akshaye...

First time, Iran downs US jet, one of two crew rescued

A US fighter jet has been shot down over Iran and searchand-rescue efforts have so far recovered one of two crew members who ejected, a US official told Reuters Friday, in the first known incident of its kind in the nearly five-week-old war. The...

‘It’s phenomenal’: Astronauts thrilled by views of Earth

Four Astronauts blasted off from Florida on Wednesday on nasa's Artemis ii mission, a high-stakes voyage around the moon that marks the boldest step yet by the us toward returning humans to the lunar surface later this decade in a race with China....

Europe pushes back on US military Ops as concerns over Iran war rise

FRANCE AND Italy have joined Spain in pushing back on US-ISraeli military operations, sources said on Tuesday, as President Donald Trump singled out NATO allies in Europe as unhelpful in the monthlong war, highlighting divisions. The decisions came...

Turkey says NATO defences down 4th Iran missile entering airspace

A BALLISTIC missile launched from Iran entered Turkish airspace before being shot down by NATO air and missile defences deployed in the eastern Mediterranean, Turkey’s defence ministry said on Monday. The incident marked the fourth such incident since...

‘Waiting’: Iran warns US against ground ops, more Marines arrive

IRAN SAID it was ready to respond to any US ground attack, accusing Washington of preparing a land assault while seeking talks, as regional powers met in Pakistan Sunday to try to bring the two sides together. Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer...

Chef Prateek Sadhu on soul cooking

Lebanon: Israel strikes key bridge, orders demolitions

ISRAEL STRUCK a main bridge linking Lebanon's south to the rest of the country on Sunday after ordering its military to destroy all crossings over Lebanon’s Litani River and to step up the demolition of homes near the southern border. The destruction...

Iran fires two long-range missiles at Diego Garcia, says its Natanz n-site hit

PRESIDENT DONALD Trump said the US was considering “winding down” its military operation against Iran, as Iran and Israel traded attacks Saturday and Iranian media said the nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz had been attacked. Iran fired two...

Iran strikes Gulf energy facilities, shock waves hit global economy

IRAN INTENSIFIED its attacks on oil and natural gas facilities around the Gulf Thursday, raising the stakes in a war that is sending shock waves through the global economy. The strikes, in retaliation for an Israeli attack on South Pars, a key Iranian...

Israel intensifies strikes on Beirut; Iran seeks new Hormuz protocol

ISRAEL STEPPED up airstrikes on Beirut on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and destroying a 10-storey building near the city centre in the third week of its war with Iran-backed Hezbollah, Lebanese authorities said. In a further escalation,...

On the table: Global media outreach proposal with IIS officers in foreign missions

AIMING TO directly engage with media across the world, project India’s growth story and counter adverse narratives, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) has proposed to create a new global outreach unit within the Press Information...

Trump: Some countries not eager to help unblock Strait

PRESIDENT DONALD Trump on Monday repeated his call to nations to help unblock the Strait of Hormuz, and complained that some were not very enthusiastic about providing help to Washington. Trump wants nations to help police the strait after Iran...

AAP ‘education reform’ in Punjab: Marked progress but only 1 party MLA sends own kids to govt school

IN 2022, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) swept to power in Punjab with 92 of 117 Assembly seats, riding on a key promise based on its Delhi model: “Sikhya Kranti”, an “education revolution” that would transform government schools into institutions parents...

2 India-flagged LPG tankers cross, efforts on for 22 more ships: Govt

TWO INDIAN-FLAGGED liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tankers headed to ports in Gujarat transited the critical maritime chokepoint of the Strait of Hormuz safely between Friday night and Saturday, the government announced on Saturday. It said diplomatic...

Will try our best: Iran envoy on safe passage for India-bound fuel ships

SIGNALLING HEADWAY in Delhi’s efforts to persuade Tehran to let India-bound fuel ships transit the Strait of Hormuz, Mohammad Fathali, Iran’s Ambassador to India, said Friday “we will try our best to remove the problems” and “I think you can expect...

Beijing adopts ethnic unity law that ‘erodes’ minority rights and cements assimilation

CHINA ADOPTED a sweeping law Thursday to promote what it calls “ethnic unity,” a measure that critics say would further erode the rights of some minority groups as authorities cement a push toward assimilation. The law, approved by the country’s...

‘Practically nothing left to target’ in Iran, war will end soon, says Trump

IRAN SAID the world should be prepared for oil to hit $200 a barrel as its forces attacked merchant ships on Wednesday in the blockaded Gulf. Iran also fired at Israel and targets across the Middle East on Wednesday, demonstrating it can still fight...

Heaviest day of strikes on a defiant Iran

The United States and israel pounded iran on Tuesday with what the Pentagon and iranians on the ground said were the most intense airstrikes of the war, despite global markets betting that President donald Trump will seek to end the conflict...

Oil tops $100 a barrel, gas shortage fear grips restaurants, tiles industry

WITH INTERNATIONAL crude oil prices surging to over $100 barrel due to the ongoing conflict in West Asia, gas shortage is slowly hitting commercial users of cooking gas or LPG, especially restaurants, in big cities like Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, and...

Trump rejects settling war with Iran, Starmer speaks to him on West Asia

PRIME MINISTER Keir Starmer spoke with US President Donald Trump on Sunday, while Trump said a day earlier he is not interested in negotiating with Iran and raised the possibility that the Iran war would only end once that country no longer has a...

It’s ‘Flashpoint Hormuz’ as US and Iran threaten each other

AS THE conflict in the Middle East halted shipping and energy exports through the vital Strait of Hormuz, a spokesperson for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards challenged US President Donald Trump to deploy US naval vessels to escort oil tankers through the...

Responded to Iran warship SOS, searched: Navy

A DAY after a US submarine torpedo sank an Iranian warship near Sri Lanka as it headed home after participating in Exercise MILAN and the International Fleet Review in Visakhapatnam, the Indian Navy said Thursday it had sent its aircraft and ships to...

US sinks Iran warship, returning from India, near Lanka; 87 killed

AN IRANIAN warship, which was returning from Visakhapatnam following an exercise organised by the Indian Navy last month, was torpedoed by a United States submarine off the southern coast of Sri Lanka in the early hours of Wednesday. In a Pentagon...

Someone from within best choice for Iran, says Trump as war rages

SHEDDING SOME light for the first time on his future plans for Iran, US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said “someone from within” the Iranian regime might be the best choice to take power once the military campaign is over. Earlier in the day, Trump...

Trump on Iran: Big wave soon... boots on ground, if necessary

AS THE Us-israel military conflict with Iran intensified on Monday, US President Donald Trump sharply upped the ante saying “the big wave” is coming soon and that he did not rule out putting American boots on the ground in Iran. Speaking at an event in...

The Editorial Page: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards hold key to Islamic Republic’s future

War widens: US and Israel strike Iran which hits nations across Middle East

THE UNITED States and Israel attacked Iran Saturday, targeting its top leaders and calling for the overthrow of its government, while Iran responded with missiles fired at Israel and neighbouring Gulf countries. President Donald Trump who, in the...

Amid war hysteria, Iran & US hold new round of talks

IRAN AND the United States were holding another round of indirect talks in Geneva on Thursday to try to reach a deal on Tehran's nuclear program and potentially avert another war as the US gathers a massive fleet of aircraft and warships in the Middle...

Will not let anyone defame institution: CJI on NCERT book

TAKING note of a report by The Indian Express that the new Social Science textbook for Class 8 by national Council of educational Research and Training (NCERT) includes a section on “corruption in the judiciary”, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya...

Army-cartel battle rages a day after drug lord is killed

A DAY after the Mexican army killed the country’s most powerful drug lord, the picturesque town where it happened was a study in contrasts. Children whose classes had been suspended by the outbreak of violence played in cobblestone streets and tourist...

I-T brings Rs 14,601-cr undisclosed offshore investments to tax

DISCLOSING COLLECTIVE figures regarding this for the first time, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has said that Rs 14,601 crore worth offshore assets investigated by The Indian Express have been “brought to tax”. The reply to an RTI by the...

India pitch: Democratising AI, respecting sovereignty

AS PART of its key deliverables post the India AI Impact Summit, Delhi is likely to push for more “democratised” use of AI. A key focus is likely on affordability and access to the technology, a move which government officials say will counter the...

Iran briefly closes Strait of Hormuz as US, Tehran nuclear talks unfold

IRAN AND the United States reached an understanding on the main “guiding principles” in a second round of indirect talks over nuclear dispute on Tuesday, but it does not mean a deal is imminent, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi said. “Different...

A new era of Innovation

The potential of AI to deliver population scale impact can be realized only with crucial collaboration across India’s academic, public and private ecosystems. From agriculture and healthcare to education and essential services, our partners are using...

Ishan blitz sinks Pakistan

IT DID not rain in Colombo as was feared. But it rained sixes and fours from the mighty willow of Ishan Kishan, it rained wickets for the excellent seampair of Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya, and later the guileful spin pack, ending in a comfortable...

Pannun plot: In Nikhil Gupta’s guilty plea, US Justice Dept names R&AW

THE US Department of Justice (DOJ) has confirmed that Indian national Nikhil Gupta, charged in the 2023 assassination plot against Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in New York, has pleaded guilty — and said that his sentence will be...

Landslide returns BNP, Rahman set to be Bangladesh PM

SIGNALLING THE start of a new chapter in the country’s history, the centre-right Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), led by Tarique Rahman, returned to power Friday after nearly two decades, securing a landslide victory in the first

Jimmy Lai locked up for 20 years

HONG KONG'S most vocal China critic, media tycoon Jimmy Lai, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in jail, ending the city's biggest national security case which drew global concern about Beijing's clampdown on freedoms in the former British...

5 girls go out to play in Bihar village, only 1 returns — mystery continues

AGED 10 to 14, belonging to an impoverished Dalit settlement in Haspura block of Bihar’s Aurangabad district, the five girls had little to call their own except each other. Now, four are dead, the only survivor “unavailable” to tell what happened, and...

India, US reach interim deal

MOVING CLOSER to a bilateral trade pact, India and the US unveiled Saturday a framework for an interim trade agreement to lower tariffs and deepen economic ties after almost a year of negotiations. Thanking US President Donald Trump for “his personal...

Future perfect

VAIBHAV SOORYAVANSHI’S name loomed large on the 2026 U19 World Cup, and there was little until the final to justify that top billing. Then in a space of 80 balls he faced in the final against England, and inside of 25 overs, the teen wonder stamped a...

Can’t see me serving, so say ‘Modi teri kabr khudegi’: PM slams Cong

Picking On the slogan ‘ Modi teri kabr khudegi’ (Modi, your grave will be dug) used by some opposed to his government’s actions, Prime Minister narendra Modi, in one of his sharpest attacks on the Congress, said thursday that those who thought the...

Not just Naravane: 19-yr-old case shadows ex-officer’s book on R&AW ‘secrets’

TRIGGERING A political firestorm, the Government has asserted in Parliament that Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi cannot read excerpts from ex-army Chief General M M Naravane’s memoirs in the Lok Sabha since the book is yet to be published. What it...

Farmers secure, agriculture and dairy interests protected: Goyal

AMID CONCERNS that India has agreed to cut tariffs for agri goods and committed to buy more of these from the US, which may hurt farmers, Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said Tuesday that the interests of sensitive sectors like...

India, US have a deal, 50% tariffs cut to 18%

ENDING ALMOST 11 months of uncertainty that saw bilateral relations plunge to their lowest in over two decades and the trust deficit deepen, India and the United States agreed to a historic trade deal Monday under which the US will reduce tariffs from...

In headwinds, Budget stays the course, batters markets with tax

IN THE face of global headwinds, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has chosen to stay the course, take a string of measures to shore up manufacturing, and continue to do the heavy lifting on core infrastructure spending, indicating continued...

Sunetra Pawar sworn in as first woman Dy CM of Maharashtra

THREE DAYS after Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar died in a plane crash near the Baramati airport, his wife Sunetra Pawar succeeded him at the forefront of the ruling Mahayuti alliance and was sworn in Saturday as the state’s first woman...