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NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Friday criticised remarks by US president Donald Trump congratulating Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the BJP’s West Bengal poll victory as “premature and misplaced”, asserting that state elections are an “internal matter of India’s federal democracy”.In a post on X tagging Trump, Raut said that “any … Read more

NEW DELHI: Actor-politician Vijay is set to meet Tamil Nadu governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar for the third time to stake claim to form government, after the May 4 verdict placed his TVK as the single-largest party in the state.From silver-screen superstardom to the edge of Chennai’s Fort St George, Vijay has caused the biggest political … Read more

NEW DELHI: DMK MP Kanimozhi has written a letter addressed to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to change the seating arrangements in the Parliament so that they don’t have to sit near the Congress MPs, considering the recent rift after Tamil Nadu poll results.“I write to respectfully request suitable changes in the seating arrangement of … Read more

Photo’s shared by Akhilesh NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday backed the Trinamool Congress and DMK after their defeats in the recent assembly elections, while taking an apparent swipe at the Congress, saying, “we are not the ones who leave during difficult times”.Akhilesh’s remark was in the backdrop of the Congress … Read more

NEW DELHI: Veteran Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Friday questioned the grand old party’s decision to support actor-politician Vijay and his Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam in Tamil Nadu, calling the move “dreadful”, ethically questionable and politically reckless. Speaking to PTIl, Aiyar accused the Congress of abandoning its long-time ally Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam immediately after contesting … Read more

Four days after delivering a historic mandate and ending the 49 year duopoly of DMK and AIADMK over Tamil Nadu politics, Vijay’s TVK still finds itself in a flux. The party secured a historic 108 seats falling just short of the majority of 118 seats. However, new entrant Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam, despite its newfound ties … Read more

NEW DELHI: More than a year after the Pahalgam terror attack, Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI allegedly plotted attacks on a historic temple in Delhi, a popular dhaba on the Delhi-Sonipat highway and a military camp in Haryana through operatives linked to the Shahzad Bhatti module, sources said on Friday.The alleged conspiracy surfaced during the interrogation … Read more

MK Stalin, Vijay, Edappadi Palaniswami NEW DELHI: The single-largest party, yet still short of the Chennai throne. Mega movie star Vijay-led Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam emerged as a formidable force in Tamil Nadu, disrupting the decades-long dominance of the DMK and AIADMK with a sweeping cinematic wave. However, the road to power remains uncertain, as the … Read more

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed grave apprehension over allowing individuals to challenge religious practices and said it would break every religion and constitutional court as thousands would clog courts with PILs, based on self-assessments of these customs, to seek quashing the customs and norms. The remark came from a bench of CJI … Read more

DY Chandrachud (PTI image) NEW DELHI: Former Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud has been roped in to settle the high-profile property dispute between late industrialist Sunjay Kapur’s mother Rani Kapur and his wife Priya Kapur over the family trust, tied to his Rs 30,000 crore estate. As they expressed willingness for mediation, Supreme … Read more