Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge held a big rally at Ramlila Maidan in Haldwani on 8 August. Two days later, some local people from a group called Shri Ram Sena Dharmarth Seva Nyas went there, cleaned up the place (they say there was litter and liquor bottles), and did a havan — that usual purification ritual. […]
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New York, August 30: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat stood before a packed hall at Madison Square Garden’s Infosys Theatre on Saturday and spoke straight to the Indian community living in the United States. His message was simple and clear. India remains your janma bhumi — the land of your birth. But the
The big elections are still a year away, but the mood is already clear. Folks aren’t raging against the chief minister the way you might expect. They’re angrier with the MLA sitting in their own constituency. That’s what the latest Vote Vibe survey is showing, and India Today picked it up too. In UP, almost
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On Wednesday, a sudden, brutal flash flood tore through the Gyirong area on the Tibet-China side of the border with Nepal, and right in the middle of it was a group of Kailash-Mansarovar pilgrims from the Isha Foundation. Seventy-seven of them were at the immigration office when the water came crashing in. The building and
The BJP’s big organisational clean-up under Nitin Nabin is done. Smriti Irani is back as a general secretary, Ram Madhav has a vice-president’s chair again, Piyush Goyal is the new party treasurer, and a whole lot of younger faces and women have been given organisational posts. Now the conversation in Delhi has quietly shifted to
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There’s a reason India decided against a full joint press conference after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met US President Donald Trump in France this past June. According to government sources who spoke to PTI on Monday, New Delhi simply didn’t want to take chances with Trump’s well-known unpredictable behaviour in front of the cameras. The
Ajit Doval is heading to Beijing this week. India’s National Security Advisor will sit down with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi for the 25th round of those Special Representatives talks on the border. The formal gatherings are lined up for Monday and Tuesday. The timing feels deliberate. India is hosting the BRICS summit in the
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External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar was saying on Saturday when he spoke about India and Bangladesh.He was at the Economic Times World Leaders Forum in Delhi, and someone asked him about the current awkwardness between the two countries—especially Bangladesh’s demand that India hand over Sheikh Hasina, and the question mark hanging over a possible visit
It was one of those evenings in the capital when the air itself seemed to carry a quiet confidence. At the Economic Times World Leaders Forum 2026, held at the Taj Palace, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood before a hall packed with business leaders, investors and policymakers and said something that felt both simple and
Politics in Tamil Nadu can turn on a dime, and Thursday was one of those days. The DMK came out swinging against Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay, accusing him of doing a full U-turn on the delimitation issue within a week. The spark? Vijay’s meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah at the Southern Zonal
