US President Donald Trump has intensified his public statements regarding India’s oil trade with Russia, asserting on Friday that India has “largely stopped” purchasing Russian crude. This latest claim comes just weeks after Trump had previously said that India would soon pause its oil imports from Moscow and amid ongoing trade negotiations between New Delhi

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The Supreme Court of India on Friday made a strong statement clarifying that the pilots of Air India Flight AI-171, which crashed on June 12, 2025, killing over 250 people, cannot be held responsible for the tragedy. The remarks came as the court agreed to hear a plea filed by the father of the pilot-in-command,

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Friday, delivered a stirring address at an event marking 150 years of India’s national song, Vande Mataram, drawing deep connections between the song’s sentiment, India’s civilisational identity, and the country’s contemporary security and societal ethos. The programme, held at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi, was attended by a

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The Supreme Court of India has agreed to take up on November 11 a significant petition filed by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) challenging the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) decision to conduct a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Tamil Nadu. The scheduled hearing places the issue before a bench comprising Chief

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The Supreme Court on Friday delivered a split verdict on a contentious review plea filed by the Maharashtra government, which sought reconsideration of a September 11 order directing the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) composed specifically of both Hindu and Muslim police officers. The SIT was tasked with probing the assault of a

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As India commemorates 150 years of the national song Vande Mataram, a fresh political controversy has erupted, this time centered around historical interpretations of the song’s adoption and the role played by India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has levelled a significant accusation, claiming that Nehru deliberately removed stanzas referring

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The Supreme Court of India on Friday declined to intervene in the long-running dispute over the demolition of Ujjain’s 200-year-old Takiya Masjid, effectively upholding the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s earlier decision that had validated the state government’s action. The apex court dismissed, at the very outset, a petition filed by worshippers who had sought both

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Operations at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) were severely disrupted on Friday after a technical failure in the Air Traffic Control (ATC) system caused delays to more than 100 flights. The airport authorities, along with the Airports Authority of India (AAI), confirmed that the issue stemmed from a malfunction in the Automatic Message Switching

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Mumbai’s political landscape has been rattled in recent days following a controversy triggered by remarks made by Mumbai BJP chief Ameet Satam in response to Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York mayoral elections. Satam, who drew sharp criticism from political opponents for comments widely interpreted as communal, has doubled down on the sentiment behind

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The Tamil Nadu government has initiated a major consultative exercise with political parties across the state to draft a comprehensive Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the conduct of political rallies and campaign events. The move follows a stern directive issued by the Madras High Court last week, instructing the state to produce a draft SOP

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