Author: Md Nasimuddin
A delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC), led by Vice-Minister Sun Haiyan, on Tuesday (January 13, 2026) met RashtriyaSwayamsewakSangh (RSS) general secretary DattatreyaHosabale in New Delhi.
Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen on Tuesday said his people “choose Denmark” and “choose NATO” instead of the United States, amid President Trump’s calls for the island territory to be annexed into the union.
On Monday, the West Bengal government said that two cases of Nipah virus have been detected in the state. Both the affected individuals are medical staffers of a private hospital in Barasat in the North 24 Parganas district and are admitted there.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz held talks in Ahmedabad on Monday morning and decided to strengthen ties in several sectors, including defence, trade, technology, renewable energy and education, following which the two sides finalised a staggering “27 outcomes”. These included 19 pacts that encompassed a joint declaration of intent to develop a defence industrial cooperation roadmap, as the two sides seek to strengthen co-development and co-production of defence platforms.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a plea before the Supreme Court accusing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and State officials of interfering with the central agency’s investigation and search operations at the Kolkata offices of political consultancy firm I-PAC and its co-founder, Pratik Jain.
Prashant Tamang, who rose to fame as the winner of Indian Idol 3 and was praised for his turn as a cold-blooded assassin in Paatal Lok 2, died on Sunday following a cardiac arrest. He was 43. Tamang’s close friend, singer Mahesh Sewa, told PTI that the singer-actor died at his residence in New Delhi’s Janak Puri. “He (Tamang) passed away this morning around 9am due to cardiac arrest at his residence in Delhi. He was taken to the hospital by his family but the doctors declared him dead on arrival. I’m shocked by his untimely demise. I spoke to him a few…
A day after inducting the PMK into the alliance, the seat-sharing talks in the NDA seems to have hit a roadblock. AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami’s visit to Delhi to call on the top BJP leaders has turned into a damp squib. BJP’s demand for 56 seats out of the total 234 constituencies and share in power seems to have irked the AIADMK camp.
The political battle between the BJP and the Trinamul Congress (TMC) in West Bengal escalated sharply on Thursday after the Enforcement Directorate raided two premises linked to the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC), the political consultancy working with the ruling party, in connection with a coal smuggling-linked money laundering probe. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee responded by personally intervening at the raid sites, leading to a dramatic confrontation with the central agency.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday (January 6, 2026) said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “not that happy with me” because of the tariffs imposed by Washington on Delhi for its purchases of Russian oil
The first phase of the Population Census 2027, also known as the houselisting operations (HLO) phase, will be conducted from April 1 to September 30 this year across all States and Union Territories, the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India (RG&CCI) said in a notification on Wednesday (January 7, 2026).