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Govt wants to alter electoral map, take away representation: Rahul
Rahul Gandhi criticizes BJP's delimitation plans, calling them a "shameful" attempt to alter India's electoral map and deny representation to OBCs and Dalits.| India News
Round 2 of US-Iran talks likely in Pakistan on April 20: Report
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BJP’s Bengal blueprint: Hold the north, chase the south
The BJP has entrenched itself in north Bengal since 2019, when the region powered its record Lok Sabha performance in the state. Since then, the TMC has regained some ground, but has failed to decisively overtake it.
China is the real winner in the Iran conflict
Call it an “uneasy truce” if you must. That is the preferred cliché for the current two-week ceasefire in the US–Iran war. Yes, loose ends remain: Israel-Lebanon negotiations over Hezbollah, and the mechanics of Iran’s promise to curb uranium enrichment, the economics of the Straits of Hormuz. But l...
In Parliament’s pushback on Women’s Reservation Bill, a lesson for government
The Modi government will use this defeat to lay claim to custodianship of the cause of women’s empowerment, and add it to its repertoire of political-ideological projects
Sheikh Hasina extradition request under legal review, says India
"We will continue to engage constructively on the issue with all stakeholders,” Randhir Jaiswal told a weekly media briefing.| India News
ED at Punjab minister’s door: Who is AAP leader Sanjeev Arora, state’s richest politician?
The searches come two days after the central agency conducted raids in Jalandhar at the properties of AAP's Rajya Sabha MP Ashok Kumar Mittal, the founder-chancellor of Lovely Professional University.
Pope Leo's Africa trip marked by open clash with Trump
Pope Leo was in Angola on Friday for the third leg of his tour of Africa after he held a mass in Cameroon in front of roughly 120,000 people. CBS News' Chris Livesay reports and Michelle Boorstein, a religion reporter at the Washington Post, has more.
Maharashtra EVM ‘diagnostic check’: Meet the Congress leader who raised an alarm
Veteran leader Arif Naseem Khan back in the limelight after petition following his Assembly election defeat in 2024 led to Bombay High Court intervention
Decode Politics: Amid delimitation storm, how 2023 exercise shaped Assam elections
Opposition accuses BJP of using delimitation in Assam to “gerrymander” seats to “split anti-BJP regions and communities for electoral dividends”
Andhra Pradesh deferred to Delhi Darbar — and therein lies a tale
It is a crisis of governance due to excessive corruption by successive leaderships. New AP has the distinction that both its chief ministers — Chandrababu Naidu and Jagan Mohan Reddy — served a jail term
Trump’s post banning Israel from bombing Lebanon catches Netanyahu off guard — Axios
According to sources cited by the news outlet, Israel asked the White House for clarifications
Cost of war, case for peace: Why US-Iran deal is urgent
The confrontation between the United States and Iran is no longer a conventional political dispute; it has evolved into a multidimensional crisis with military, economic, security, and environmental ramifications that threaten not only the stability of the Arabian Gulf but also the broader international order. As military tensions escalate and the Strait of Hormuz faces intermittent closure, the pursuit of a comprehensive agreement between the two parties is no longer a matter of diplomatic pref...
Why might China want to get involved in the war with Iran?
U.S. officials tell CBS News that days after the war with Iran started, U.S. intelligence detected that China was weighing whether to supply Iran with advanced radar technology. CBS News national security contributor Sam Vinograd has more.
What is the Fisa law Trump wants extended and why are lawmakers resisting?
What is the Fisa law Trump wants extended and why are lawmakers resisting?28 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleNardine SaadGetty ImagesThe US Congress has voted to temporarily extend an expiring law that governs how intelligence agencies can gather information from US telecom companies.While the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa) went decades without controversy, the 1978 law in recent years has angered lawmakers of both parties over how it handles digital communications.A...
Choosing not to be a peace-broker
‘STRATEGIC silence’ refers to the deliberate choice made by a state to remain silent, indifferent and unconcerned in the context of major armed conflicts. Before and after the ceasefire in the US-Israel war against Iran, several countries attempted to de-escalate tensions between the warring parties. Pakistan, along with Egypt and Türkiye, has played the role of facilitator or peace-broker to de-escalate hostilities between Iran and the US. However, India, which is a larger country in both size...
Delimitation row fuels DMK’s final push against AIADMK, Vijay in race against time
The row does not seem to have become a major talking point among people so far on the poll eve despite CM Stalin’s tough talk and call for street protests
آکسیوس به نقل از مقامهای آمریکایی: عربستان بارها موضع خود را درباره جنگ ایران تغییر داد
آکسیوس به نقل از مقامهای آمریکایی گزارش داد عربستان درباره جنگ ایران مواضع متغیری داشته است؛ ریاض در علن از دیپلماسی حمایت میکرد، اما در خفا خواهان اقدام نظامی بود. با این حال، بهدلیل آسیب به زیرساختهای انرژی، اکنون از توافق و پایان جنگ حمایت میکند.
Why China is urgently looking to North Africa as the energy crisis rolls on
The war in Iran and ensuing closure of the Strait of Hormuz has exposed the risks of over-reliance on the Persian Gulf for oil, turning Beijing’s Mediterranean infrastructure plans from long-term goals into urgent strategic necessities. From Algerian oilfields to Moroccan battery factories and Egypt’s industrial base, China might now fast-track these projects to create a Mediterranean hub for a green-energy supply chain, observers said. Beijing aims to create a strategic backup that protects its...
Carville says possibility of Fetterman switching parties is 'real threat' to Dems' Senate plans
"Politics War Room" James Carville and Al Hunt speculated on whether Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn., may switch parties and throw Democrats’ Senate plans in disarray.As Carville and Hunt took questions from listeners, one asked why Fetterman, who has been known for taking surprisingly bipartisan stances, doesn’t just go all the way and switch parties."I am not a big Fetterman fan," Carville said, declaring he thinks Fetterman is often motivated by wanting to see his name featured in newspapers. "H...