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Once bitter political and ideological rivals, the CPI(M) and CPI(M-L) have of late mended fences. Now CPI(M) leadership will have All India Students’ Association (AISA), the students wing of CPI(M-L) together with it in an agitation on education and youth issues in West Bengal.
Three Lok Sabha MPs of the National Congress Progressive Initiative (NCPI) on Tuesday skipped the NDA parliamentary party’s weekly Mangal Milan meeting for the second time, bringing to the fore apparent differences within the 20-member breakaway Trinamool Congress (TMC) faction over its proximity to the BJP-led alliance.
Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) founder Prashant Kishor scripted a major political upset in Bihar by defeating the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate in the Bankipur Assembly byelection, a constituency represented for five consecutive terms by the BJP’s national president Nitin Nabin. The BJP retained Manjalpur in Gujarat while the Congress held on to Madhya Pradesh’s Datia in other Assembly byelections.
India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday agreed to deepen their strategic partnership, setting an ambitious target of doubling bilateral trade to $200 billion within six years, as well as securing an LNG deal and moving towards the signing of a formal Strategic Defence Partnership agreement in the near future.
Virat Kohli’s 108-ball 124 went in vain as New Zealand completed a 2-1 series victory against India with a 41-run win in the third and final ODI here on Sunday.
Amid escalating unrest in Iran, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi spoke with India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar to discuss the evolving security situation. Jaishankar confirmed the conversation in a post on X, saying the two leaders reviewed developments in and around Iran.
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.
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.
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.
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