Cuttack streets have hardly been this strung up. The residents are confined to a 36-hour curfew and internet ban since Sunday, after bloody confrontations at a motorcycle rally supporting the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) demand to close the bandh in 12 hours.
Maharashtra Minister Chhagan Bhujbal has raised concerns that state’s popular women welfare program, Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin is affecting the funding of other important government schemes. Speaking to reporters Bhujbal said that the Ladki Bahin scheme aims to support women financially but it is putting heavy pressure on the state’s budget.
The landslides in Darjeeling have led to a heartbreaking toll of 28 lives lost, with six people still unaccounted for. Rescue efforts are actively underway, with teams diligently working to assist isolated villages and those impacted by the disaster. This catastrophe has ignited a fierce political debate between the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
When Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) president Mohan Bhagwat mentioned Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) while speaking at Satna in Madhya Pradesh, what he said didn’t come across as a political remark — it sounded like a recollection.
The Election Commission of India on Monday announced the schedule for the general elections to the Legislative Assembly of Bihar. The polling will be held in two phases — on November 6 and November 11, 2025, while the counting of votes will take place on November 14, 2025.
BJP MP Khagen Murmu from North Malda, who was attacked while distributing relief materials to flood-affected residents in Jalpaiguri’s Nagrakata area on Monday, has suffered a fracture below his eye.
Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk’s wife, Dr. Gitanjali J. Angmo, has moved a habeas corpus petition in the Supreme Court against the preventive detention of her husband under the National Security Act (NSA), 1980, following violent protests on September 24 in Leh.
This week, deadly protests shook Leh, Ladakh, as protests by thousands of people who demanded statehood led to the deaths of four people and dozens of others injured by security forces. It has since been placed under a strict curfew and dozens more have since been arrested in an effort to restore order.
The BJP opted for tried and tested poll managers, Dharmendra Pradhan and Bhupender Yadav — key OBC faces — as election in-charges for Bihar and West Bengal, respectively.
