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
Honestly, some people just can’t switch off. Shehzad Poonawalla is one of them. The man spent years as the BJP’s national spokesperson, the one who’d show up on every debate channel and throw sharp lines without blinking. A few days ago he finally quit the party. And barely 48 hours later, he’s back on X
Sheikh Hasina off back to Bangladesh under that extradition treaty they signed in 2013? It sounds straightforward on paper, but once you sit with it, it’s anything but simple. Let me walk you through it the way I’d explain it to a friend over coffee. Hasina’s been living in India since August 2024. She left
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