Politics Today

The heavy security measures undertaken for the annual Amarnath yatra, which commenced earlier this week in Jammu & Kashmir, have drew criticism from the locals for the inconvenience they are facing in their daily lives. Read More

India, while referring to the sanctions announced against Russia by the US and mounting pressure to drop the S-400 Triumf missile-defence deal with Russia, has clarified that it was a sovereign decision based on the entire spectrum of security challenges the country is facing. Read More

Claiming responsibility for the Lok Sabha election debacle, Congress president Rahul Gandhi, in an open letter to party workers, resigned from his post and said it was an honour to serve the party. He said that it would be unjust to “ignore” his own responsibility for the election defeat. Read More

Two days after the vandalism of a Durga temple in Lal Kuwan area of Old Delhi’s Chawri Bazar, the Delhi Police have arrested a total of four people. A juvenile has also been detained in the case. Read More

A breach of the Tiware dam in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, washed away several houses following heavy rains. Twenty-three people have been feared killed in the incident and, so far, 11 bodies were recovered from downstream. Read More

In a major breakthrough, the customs department has seized 532kg of suspected heroin and 52kg of suspected mixed narcotics worth ₹2,700 crore that was smuggled in to India from Pakistan in a truck through Attari border trade route in Punjab. Read More

India has received 32.8 per cent less rain than expected in June, the first month of the monsoon season. Experts have attributed this to the adverse effects of the Cyclone Vayu. Meanwhile, several people have been killed in Mumbai due to heavy rainfall. Read More

In an attempt to pursue Congress president Rahul Gandhi to withdraw his resignation from his post, chief ministers of states from the party urged Rahul Gandhi that nobody else except him was capable of reviving the organization at this stage. Read More

Two Congress MLAs – Vijaynagar Congress MLA Anand Singh and Gokak Congress MLA Ramesh Jarkiholi – resigned from the Karnataka assembly dealing a fresh blow to the already tottering JD(S)-Congress coalition government. Read More

A Muslim man suspected of stealing a bike was tied to a pole, made to chant “Jai Shri Ram” and brutally beaten for hours by a mob in Jharkhand’s Seraikela Kharsawan district last week. The man, Tabrez Ansari, 22, died of his injuries later. Read More