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Mamata Banerjee and Amit Shah (R) NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday issued a strong statement aimed at taking on the BJP beyond Bengal, even setting her sights on New Delhi. Her remarks elicited a wry reaction from Union home minister Amit Shah, who said with a smile during a presser,...

Indian equities are facing a more cautious outlook, with JPMorgan cutting its rating on the market to neutral from overweight. The brokerage warned that the Nifty 50 could drop to 20,500 in a worst-case scenario, which would mean a fall of around 15% from current levels. It stated that high valuations and uncertainty linked to...

NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party strongly condemned the move by Raghav Chadha and six other Rajya Sabha MPs who quit the party and decided to join BJP on Friday. Accusing the BJP of launching “Operation Lotus“, AAP MP Sanjay Singh said that this was a targeted attempt to “obstruct the good work of the Bhagwant...

Raghav Chadha and other ex-AAP MPs with BJP president Nitin Nabin (Image/PTI) NEW DELHI: In a major political development, Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha on Friday quit the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The move comes days after an open rift with the AAP leadership.Announcing his decision at a...

Raghav Chadha NEW DELHI: In a major setback to the Aam Aadmi Party on Friday, its prominent Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha led a wave of exodus from the Arvind Kejriwal-led party, joining the Bharatiya Janata Party along with two party colleagues and fellow MPs, including Sandeep Pathak and Ashok Mittal.Notably, weeks earlier, the AAP...

India-US trade deal: India and the United States have agreed to continue their engagement on a proposed trade agreement, with the government confirming on Friday that the latest round of discussions between officials from both countries wrapped up on April 23 after three days of talks.On February 7, the two countries had issued a joint...

NEW DELHI: Days after an open rift with the Aam Aadmi Party leadership, Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha resigned from the party. Chadha, along with other two Rajya MPs, Sandeep Pathak and Ashok Mittal, on Friday announced that the three were breaking away from AAP and joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).“The Aam Aadmi Party,...

Gyanesh Kumar NEW DELHI: Opposition parties on Friday submitted a fresh notice in Rajya Sabha seeking a motion to remove Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. The notice has been signed by 73 MPs.Congress leader Jairam Ramesh alleged that there are nine specific charges against the CEC on the ground of ‘proven misbehaviour’ and called his...

R Ashwin and Hardik Pandya (Photo by PTI and BCCI) NEW DELHI: Former India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has questioned a key decision by Hardik Pandya during Indian Premier League 2026, after Mumbai Indians’ loss to Chennai Super Kings. The debate centres around Pandya asking young pacer Krish Bhagat to bowl crucial death overs, which went...

NEW DELHI: A man described by his family and villagers as “a quiet person with good behaviour” and “good in studies” has been accused of raping and murdering the daughter of an IRS officer in Delhi, and also of sexually assaulting a woman in Rajasthan’s Alwar district within a span of 24 hours earlier this...