Author: Md Nasimuddin
Asserting that the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) would form a government in West Bengal after the 2026 Assembly election, Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday (June 1, 2025) said that the time of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s rule was coming to an end.
“Didi (Mamata Banerjee), your rule has come to an end. In 2026, Bharatiya Janata Party will form the government. Didi, I dare you to hold elections without violence and rigging, and the people of Bengal will ensure that you lose your deposit,” he said.
A US federal court has struck down President Donald Trump’s expansive tariff regime, dealing a serious setback to one of the president’s central economic strategies.
The Court of International Trade in Manhattan ruled that the White House overstepped its legal authority by unilaterally imposing tariffs on a broad range of countries under the guise of a national emergency, reports BBC and other international media.
Several Muslim leaders of the Congress in Dakshina Kannada, right from booth-level to state-level, on Thursday, announced their resignations from their party positions in protest of the government’s alleged failure to contain the series of ‘communal murders’ in the district and sidelining community leaders.
Kamal Haasan, the actor-politician and founder of the Makkal Neethi Maiya (MNM) party, is set to enter the Rajya Sabha in the biennial elections to the Upper House from Tamil Nadu slated for June 19 with the backing of the ruling DMK here.
The Election Commission had on May 26 announced the poll schedule for the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha — two seats from Assam and six seats from Tamil Nadu that fall vacant on June 14 and July 24, respectively.
Modi will lay the foundation stone for an ₹1,010-crore CGD project in Alipurduar and Cooch Behar districts and later address a public rally in Alipurduar, BJP leaders said
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit West Bengal on Thursday to lay the foundation stone for a gas distribution project and address a rally in Alipurduar
The Union government is weighing the option of bringing in Parliament an impeachment motion against Allahabad High Court judge Yashwant Varma, who has been indicted by a Supreme Court-appointed probe panel after the discovery of a huge sum of burnt cash from his official residence in the national capital.
Sources in the government said an impeachment motion in Parliament, which meets next during the Monsoon Session starting in the second half of July, is an obvious choice if Justice Verma, who was repatriated from Delhi High Court to Allahabad High Court after the unsavoury incident, does not resign on his own.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered US embassies worldwide to stop scheduling interviews for student visas as the Trump administration weighs stricter vetting of applicants’ social-media profiles.
The directive, laid out in a cable sent to diplomats worldwide on Tuesday, marks the latest effort by the administration to restrict foreign students’ entry to American schools over claims that they might threaten US national security or promote antisemitism.
Manipur governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla on Monday afternoon took a chopper from Imphal airport to reach the Raj Bhawan, a distance of 6km, owing to the ongoing protest seeking his apology for the removal of the state’s name from a bus carrying journalists to Ukhrul on May 20.
The All India Congress Committee (AICC) announced Gogoi’s appointment in a press statement issued by party general secretary K.C. Venugopal.
The appointment was along expected lines since Gogoi, the deputy leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha, won the Jorhat seat by defeating the sitting BJP MP by a comfortable margin.
The absence of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the 10th Governing Council meeting of the NITI Aayog in New Delhi on Saturday (May 24, 2025) drew sharp criticism from Opposition parties, particularly in light of pending central funds to the State under key schemes.
The meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was attended by several Chief Ministers, including M.K. Stalin (Tamil Nadu), Bhagwant Mann (Punjab), Revanth Reddy (Telangana), and Hemant Soren (Jharkhand). The theme of the session was Viksit Rajya for Viksit Bharat @2047, and marked the first such interaction since Operation Sindoor and the subsequent conflict with Pakistan.