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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.
As tensions simmered within the Mahagathbandhan over the failure to arrive at a formal seat-sharing pact for the upcoming Bihar Assembly polls, senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot met RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Wednesday in a bid to ease friction within the alliance.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing “surprise and shock” at the Centre’s unilateral appointment of an interlocutor for the “issues relating to Gurkhas in Darjeeling hills, Terai and Dooars regions of West Bengal”.
Opposition parties in Maharashtra will hold a grand rally on November 1 to urge the Election Commission of India (ECI) to remove around “one crore bogus voters” from the electoral rolls, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said on Sunday (October 19, 2025).
The acceptance of diversity and the importance of asking “difficult questions” are enduring memories of India for Sri Lankan Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya, who began her first official visit to India on Thursday (October 16, 2025) with a walk down memory lane to her alma mater, Delhi University’s Hindu College.
Ahmedabad is set to host the Commonwealth Games in 2030. As reported by this newspaper, Amdavad (also known as Ahmedabad) is the venue submitted by India and the one Commonwealth Sport executive board has recommended to the house for approval next month. India hosted the same Games in 2010.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday met the family of Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, who allegedly committed suicide. After landing at the airport here, Gandhi reached Kumar’s residence in Sector 24 at 11:08 am to offer his condolences.
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