WASHINGTON — Jeffrey Rosenberg is still trying to understand why President Trump would free the man who defrauded him out of a quarter of a million dollars. Rosenberg, a retired wholesale produce distributor living in Nevada, has supported Trump since he entered politics, but the president’s decision in November to commute the sentence of former private equity…
Joint Parliamentary Committee Chair Aparajita Sarangi moved a resolution in Lok Sabha seeking time to submit its report “up to the first day of the last week of the Budget Session, 2026”. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Parliamentary committee examining Bills to remove the prime minister and chief ministers was granted extension on Thursday…
Telangana Jagruthi president K. Kavitha | Photo Credit: G. Ramakrishna Former Lok Sabha MP K. Kavitha is all set to contest the next Assembly polls in Telangana due in 2028, declaring that “the rest is a technicality” when asked about the nature of her proposed new political outfit. Currently on a yatra across all 33…
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan The Kerala High Court on Thursday (December 18, 2025) stayed for three months all proceedings pertaining to the show-cause notice the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had issued to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, former Finance Minister Thomas Isaac and the CEO of KIIFB K.M. Abraham on the usage of funds mobilised by the…
The schedule for Kerala had been revised earlier, with the enumeration deadline pushed to December 18 and the draft voter list to be published on December 23. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Supreme Court on Thursday (December 18, 2025) asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to a “sympathetic view” of pleas to…
Police officials seen outside the Bombay high court in Mumbai. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Multiple courts in Mumbai, including the Bombay High Court, received bomb threats via email on Thursday (December 18, 2025), prompting evacuation and security checks. Magistrate courts in Bandra, Andheri, and Esplanade were among those targeted. Bomb disposal squads and…
Labourers loading coals taken out from rat whole mines in East Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya. File | Photo Credit: Ritu Raj Konwar Raising concerns over the impact of the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) coal mining ban in Meghalaya, Rajya Sabha MP Dr. Wanweiroy Kharlukhi on Thursday (December 17, 2025) called upon the Centre to…
A stray dog sits inside an MCD van after being caught, at Old Delhi area, in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: PTI Responding to a petitioner in the stray dogs case who objected to some rules framed by the Delhi municipal corporation saying “inhuman” treatment was being meted out to them, the Supreme Court on…
M.K. Stalin. File | Photo Credit: M. Periasamy Following up on his earlier representations, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Thursday (December 18, 2025) wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterating his request for the resolution of the issue of the 50% tariffs imposed by the United States of America (USA). He went on…
CRPF personnel deployed at Gamgiphai, the Inter-State check post border after the recent violence in different districts, in Kangpokpi/Imphal West. File | Photo Credit: ANI A Kuki outfit has warned a transgender social activist from the Meitei community, who has cycled more than 2,300 km to spread the message of peace, against visiting Manipur’s Kangpokpi…