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Earlier on Thursday as well, Ajit Pawar had signalled that the rival NCP factions could permanently come together after the ongoing municipal elections. Days ahead of the civic body polls in Maharashtra, the state’s deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar said that workers of both the factions of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the one with him and the other one with this uncle Sharad Pawar, want to reunite and that the tensions within the Pawar clan have been resolved. “The workers of both parties want to unite. The two NCPs are together now. All tensions in our family have ended,”.…

On Monday, the Supreme Court denied bail to student activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the alleged larger conspiracy behind the 2020 Delhi riots. Days after the Supreme Court denied bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, two main accused in the 2020 Delhi riots case, the Ministry of External Affairs reacted to newly sworn-in New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s hand-written note to Khalid and said that “expressing personal prejudices do not behove those in office”. In the note addressed to Khalid, Mamdani had written, “I think of your words on bitterness often, and the importance of not letting…

Homeland Security Chief Kristi Noem said in a post on X, “The world’s criminals are on notice.” The United States said on Friday that it seized another tanker in the Caribbean Sea that left Venezuela and tried to evade the US forces by breaking an American naval blockade aimed at preventing sanctioned oil from leaving Venezuela. This is the fifth ship the US has seized in the recent weeks. Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem said in a post on X, “The world’s criminals are on notice. Early this morning, the @USCG executed a boarding and seizure of the Motor Tanker…

The bus was travelling from Shimla to Kupvi via Rajgarh when it went off the road near Haripurdhar village and plunged nearly 500 feet into the gorge. 14 people have been killed and over 20 others injured after a private bus fell into a 500-feet deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh. The incident took place on Friday afternoon in the Sirmaur district. The bus was travelling from Shimla to Kupvi via Rajgarh when it went off the road near Haripurdhar village and plunged nearly 500 feet into the gorge. The vehicle landed upside down at the site of the accident, which…

I-PAC said that the agency have extended full cooperation and engage with the process in complete accordance with the law. A day after Enforcement Directorate conducted raids at the residence of I-PAC head Pratik Jain, the political consultancy firm raised “serious concerns” over the raids, calling the move an “unsettling precedent”. “Officials from the Enforcement Directorate carried out searches at the I-PAC office and at the residence of our Director, Pratik Jain, in Kolkata. It was a difficult and unfortunate day for a professional organisation like I-PAC. We believe this raises serious concerns and sets an unsettling precedent,” I-PAC’s statement…

Agnivesh, 49, died after suffering a sudden cardiac arrest while recovering from a skiing accident at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Billionaire industrialist and Vedanta Group Chairman Anil Agarwal has announced that he will donate more than 75 per cent of his wealth to society after the sudden death of his son, Agnivesh, in the United States. Agnivesh, 49, died after suffering a sudden cardiac arrest while recovering from a skiing accident at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.The businessman emphasised his late son’s vision for a self-sufficient India, recalling Agnivesh’s words that the nation had all it needed…

After his engineering, Pratik Jain worked became a founding member of ‘Citizens for Accountable Governance’ in 2013 which eventually culminated into I-PAC. Pratik Jain, co-founder and director of leading political consultancy firm Indian Political Action Committee, or I-PAC, has found himself in the middle of a money laundering probe by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) which conducted raids at not just I-PAC’s office but also Jain’s residence in West Bengal’s Kolkata. Apart from I-PAC’s office in Salt Lake and Jain’s house on Loudon Street in Kolkata, official sources told that eight other locations were raided by the ED officials in presence…

The Sanctioning of Russia Act 2025 allows the US to impose at least 500% tariff on India, China and Brazil to curb their Russian oil imports. US President Donald Trump has greenlit a bipartisan Russia Sanctions Bill, which allows the United States to impose at least 500% tariff on India, China and Brazil to curb their Russian oil imports. “This bill will allow President Trump to punish those countries who buy cheap Russian oil fueling Putin’s war machine,” Republic Senator Lindsay Graham wrote on X, formerly Twitter. He, along with Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal, drafted the bill. “This bill would…

EAM S Jaishankar participated in India’s first-ever engagement in the Weimar Triangle, with French and Polish counterparts along with German representatives. Poland has backed India amid New Delhi’s standoff with the United States over its purchase of Russian oil, with Warsaw saying that it was “satisfied” with India’s cutback on imports from Moscow. This comes amid US President Donald Trump’s renewed threats against India, including the possibility of imposing punitive levies running as high as 500 per cent over the Russian oil imports amid the Ukraine War. “I expressed my satisfaction that India has reduced Russian oil imports because this…

The Enforcement Directorate was conducting raids at the residence of I-PAC director Pratik Jain when Mamata Banerjee turned up there. After West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee pulled up to the residence of Pratik Jain on Thursday, where Enforcement Directorate was conducting a raid in connection to a money laundering probe, the probe agency reached out to the Calcutta High Court to seek permission for filing a petition alleging interference in its investigation. Enforcement Directorate said that it conducted raids at as many as 10 locations on Thursday, six in West Bengal and four in Delhi, in connection with a…