The Election Commission has made it mandatory for new and existing voters to submit a self-attested declaration that they are Indian citizens, whether by birth or by naturalization, and furnish documentary proof of date and place of birth along with that of their parents, officials said on Wednesday, as a political controversy broke out over the EC’s decision to conduct a special intensive revision of the electoral rolls to weed out illegal immigrants ahead of the Bihar polls.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi marked the 50th anniversary of the Emergency with a scathing attack on Congress on Wednesday, saying that no Indian will ever forget the manner in which the spirit of the Constitution was violated during that period.
The Congress on Tuesday (June 17, 2025) questioned the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on the U.S. reaching out to Pakistan while referring to Pakistani Army chief Asim Munir’s visit to the country.
Ending days of uncertainty, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday said his government will hold a fresh caste survey to address concerns flagged by several stakeholders.
22 year old Pune Law student and influencer Sharmistha panoli’s communally charged video response to operation sindoor led to her arrest by the Kolkata Police in Gurugram. Panoli has over 175000 followers on Instagram and is known for making short form content, Reels, usually littered in abusive language.
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.
Madhya Pradesh, once a Congress bastion, but now in doldrums is set to be restructured by the Grand Old Party in one of the strongholds of the saffron camp-Vidisha. Congress leadership must have detected chinks in the BJP armour in this area though Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan won this Lok Sabha seat by 8.2 lakh votes in 2024 Lok Sabha elections
The process of nominating members to all-party delegations, which will meet key global partners to convey a united message of India’s zero tolerance against terrorism following Operation Sindoor, got caught in partisan politics on Saturday (May 17, 2025) as the government ignored three of the four names suggested by the Congress.
