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Mehdi has had a strained relations with NC leadership for quite some time now. He has blamed the party and CM Omar Abdullah for failing to fulfil the promises on which the NC won a landslide victory in the 2024 Assembly polls.
The US Justice Department is pushing back on requests for information about how it resolved President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, accusing challengers of the deal of improperly using the courts to pry loose details they aren’t entitled to receive.
The reaction from Congress leaders came after Penguin Random House India issued a statement saying it is not the publisher of Gandhi's memoir ‘Belonging: A Journey of Love’.
Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi said they do not accept the Census 2027 being conducted in the current manner and urged the government to take a cue from the caste surveys done in Telangana and Bihar.
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi's memoir may no longer be published by Penguin India, the Indian Express reported on Friday. Penguin India, however, said that it is not the publisher of the book.
The scheduled meeting between the two leaders comes days after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Russian President at Kremlin during his two-day official visit to Russia.
The Trump administration told a federal judge it will challenge the dismissal of its lawsuit against Harvard University alleging that the school violated civil rights laws by failing to protect Jewish and Israeli students after the October 2023 attack by Hamas on Israel.
The development comes a day after the Supreme Court agreed to hear Banerjee's plea seeking an expeditious decision on the disqualification petitions.
Rumours had it that Nagendra told Shivakumar he did not wish to embarrass the party leadership any more, and, hence he wanted to voluntarily resign by Wednesday evening.
Owaisi also targeted Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar, contrasting his actions in the Andaman Cellular Jail with those of Muslim freedom fighters.
General Chauhan said decisions on diplomacy, economic power and trade were taken on April 23, while the decision on how military force would be applied was taken on April 29, when the Chiefs of Staff Committee, Defence Minister and National Security Advisor met the Prime Minister.
Prime Minister Mark Carney matched the new tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump and announced new support programs for Canadian businesses hurt by the escalating trade war with the country’s largest trading partner.
Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella vowed to start deporting undocumented migrants as part of a broader security crackdown, a policy that could affect hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans living in the country without regular status.
US-Iran War: Munir reportedly spoke with US President Donald Trump last week, days before his Tehran visit, according to three Pakistani sources quoted by news agency Reuters, with one saying the main US request was to use Pakistan's influence to bring Iran back to negotiations.
In the last few weeks, Vijay’s government has announced a series of major measures under Rule 110, covering milk procurement prices, medical education, healthcare infrastructure, and insurance coverage.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Joseph Vijay on Monday announced that his government would abandon steps taken to establish a new airport at Parandur, saying the project would affect agricultural land and disrupt the livelihoods of farmers and residents.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's wife, Gurpreet Kaur, is accused of demanding a bribe of ₹5 crore in exchange for suppressing a rape case. Kaur has, however, rejected allegations, calling them “baseless.”
A Republican lawmaker questioned President Donald Trump’s decision to cut short a joint military exercise with South Korea, saying the US should show more allegiance to a longtime Asian ally.
The Mexican governor accused by the US of conspiring with a major criminal cartel to traffic drugs is ending his leave of absence, pledging to finish out his term through next year in a move that could inflame tensions with Washington.
In New Delhi, Ministry of External Aaffairs did not have any comments to make on the visit, spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal told reporters at a regular media briefing on Friday.
The visit comes amid efforts by India and Bangladesh to repair ties strained by the 2024 ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, whom Dhaka has asked New Delhi to extradite.
Rahul Gandhi, accompanied by the youth, Sahil Lochab, first visited the Mandir Marg police station and sought the registration of the FIR.
The Opposition condemned the “flip-flop” as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Vijay demanded “clear legislative assurance” from the Centre over the Delimitation Bill, 2026.
Reddy, who is in London currently, had planned to visit the US and return to Hyderabad on August 30.
Two key US Senate races now look like toss-ups instead of leaning in favor of Republicans, according to a new analysis from the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.
Pakistan on 19 August summoned the US chargé d'affaires and lodged a ‘strong demarche’ over remarks by Gor regarding Jammu and Kashmir during his visit to the Union territory.
DK Shivakumar, VD Satheesan and C Joseph Vijay, the two opposition leaders attended the meeting apart from Chandrababu Naidu whose TDP is an ally of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Kharge did not take any names during the meeting. The Congress president, however, said that that some leaders are prone to making comments and writing articles not in consonance with the party line.
The August 22 event, specifically focused on providing a platform for young women, is expected to draw a crowd of 8,000 to 10,000 attendees and is scheduled between 4:30 PM and 9:30 PM at the SSPMS College Ground.
The Justice Department is doubling down on its prosecution of James Comey, pushing back on the former FBI director’s assertion that a 2025 social media post wasn’t intended as a threat to President Donald Trump.
On 19 August, Vijay announced a series of welfare measures, including extending 365 days of maternity leave for women state government employees for a third child and enhanced benefits for MLAs.
Uttar Pradesh is moving strongly towards becoming a USD 1 trillion economy, said Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, highlighting the state's advantages in infrastructure, logistics, industrial growth and good governance as key drivers of its economic expansion.
The suggestion came a day after government documents revealed that the PM CARES Fund corpus has risen to a record ₹8,452 crore in 2024-25 from ₹7,173 crore in 2023-24.
Tamil Nadu Assembly Rule 110 gives the government a route to make important public-policy announcements on the floor of the House without those announcements automatically triggering a debate.
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel decided to allocate a total of Rs. 28 crore as a special development grant for road and infrastructure development in the constituencies of women legislators as a special Raksha Bandhan gift, an official statement said on thursday.
Qatar Prime Minister Al Thani will arrive in Tehran today to meet with Iranian officials and discuss ways to de-escalate tensions and create conditions conducive to dialogue. This isn't first time oil-rich Qatar is playing a mediator.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an emergency order that aims to keep some foreign-made transformers and other critical energy equipment out of the nation’s electric grids on national security grounds, according to a White House official.
