Yashwant Sinha, former Union Finance Minister under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, joined the Trinamool Congress weeks ahead of the West Bengal Assembly election. The 83-year-old had quit his earlier party, the BJP, in 2018.
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13th Jun 2026 | Updated at 09:30pm 13th Jun 2026
CM Sharma visits UK to usher investments into ‘Rising Rajasthan’
The Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma, Deputy CM Diya Kumari with delegates visited London last week, to host an investor meet. The afternoon was organised by FICCI and High Commission of India at Taj 51 Buckingham Gate, and was attended...
Punjab govt to move SC against governor
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KCR unveils poll promises to counter Congress' guarantees
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Kolkata: Launching a frontal attack on the Mamata Banerjee-led regime in Bengal, BJP national president J P Nadda said that the time has come to bid farewell to the jungle raj of the TMC, which stands for ’Terror, Mafia, Corruption’.
Encroachment row: Didi gives Amartya Sen land deed
Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday handed over land record documents of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s residence in Santiniketan to the celebrated economist, dismissing the claims of the current Visva-Bharati dispensation that he was illegally...
West Midlands delegation visits Ahmedabad to boost ties
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Somnath Swabhiman Parv honours India’s spiritual resilience
The Somnath Swabhiman Parv, held at the first Jyotirlinga in Gujarat, marks one thousand years since the first attack on the Somnath Temple in 1026. This national event, instead of focusing on destruction, celebrates India’s resilience, faith,...
New Delhi: The Election Commission ordered the removal of Vivek Sahay, West Bengal director of security, the suspension of Purba Medinipur SP Pravin Prakash...
The Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA) led by Congress in the Union territory of Puducherry finalised the seat-sharing pact for the assembly polls. As per the deal signed at the DMK headquarters in Chennai, Congress will contest in 15 seats,...
Chennai: Hoping to win the Assembly polls for the third consecutive term, the AIADMK in its election manifesto promised among other things, 'Amma Washing...
Chandigarh: The no-confidence motion against the the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-Jannayak Janata Party government led by Manohar Lal Khattar was defeated...
On the historic occasion of 91st anniversary of the Dandi march, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spelt out India’s journey of `atmanirbharta’ from the `charkha’...
Ahmedabad city reported 205 new cases of Covid-19 on Monday, breaching the mark of 200 for the first time in 83 days. There were 201 cases on December 22 last year. Meanwhile, a total of 2,017 persons tested positive in the city in the first...
India and China last week held 'in-depth' discussions on addressing the remaining issues along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, holding the disengagement in the North and South banks of Pangong Lake, provided a good basis...
Sending a strong message to China, the Quad in its first summit signalled its arrival on the geopolitical scene with PM Modi describing the grouping as...
Union minister of state Babul Supriyo, former Trinamool minister Rajib Banerjee, Rajya Sabha member Swapan Dasgupta and economist Ashok Lahiri figure in...
