French President Emmanuel Macron met with US envoy Steve Witkoff Thursday, with the discussion focused primarily on peace talks to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Elysee said. A series of meetings in Paris involving Witkoff and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio came almost a week after Witkoff traveled to St. Petersburg, where he…
(Bloomberg) — Russian President Vladimir Putin met Iran’s top diplomat ahead of a second round of talks between the US and the Islamic Republic aimed at resolving the standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program. Putin received Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Moscow, the Kremlin said in a statement on Thursday. After a first meeting in…
A fresh controversy has erupted in West Bengal after a video surfaced allegedly showing senior BJP leader Dilip Ghosh urging Hindus to keep weapons at home for self-defence. The remarks, made at a public rally in North 24 Parganas district in the wake of recent communal violence in Murshidabad, have ignited fierce criticism from the…
A fresh political storm has erupted in Tamil Nadu following the installation of a replica of the Srivilliputhur temple gopuram atop the memorial of former Chief Minister M Karunanidhi at Marina Beach, Chennai. The move has drawn sharp criticism from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has accused the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) of…
Pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir’s assertion that Islamabad “won’t forget” Kashmir has provoked a sharp response from New Delhi. Asim Munir stated that Kashmir is Pakistan’s jugular vein, asserting Islamabad’s claim over the region. India government reiterated that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of the country and called on Pakistan to vacate…
‘On what basis?’, Jagdeep Dhankar criticised the Supreme Court’s ruling allowing judicial review of presidential and gubernatorial assent on state bills, questioning the basis of such directives and asserting concerns over judicial overreach into executive functions. Supreme Court’s historic ruling seems to have sent ripple effect in an apparent Executive versus Judiciary of the Indian…
With around six months left for the Bihar Assembly Election, a survey conducted by C-Voter, which tracks election trends, revealed that JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar is not the top choice for the next Bihar Elections. Nitish Kumar is Bihar’s longest-serving chief minister and has maintained this position for the last 10 years. If Nitish Kumar…
After the Enforcement Directorate (ED) questioning him yesterday in Gurugram land case, Robert Vadra hit out at BJP stating that if he entered politics then BJP “would either speak of dynasty or misuse ED”. Calling ED summon has “no base”, he said it happened because of his messages he gave through social media regarding “atrocities…
Former Harvard University President Larry Summers assailed President Donald Trump over his deepening attacks on the school, slamming a “wildly extralegal” federal funding freeze earlier this week. “This is not an isolated thing, what’s being done to Harvard,” Summers said in an interview Wednesday with Bloomberg Television. “This is part of a broad and sweeping…
Less than a week after the AIADMK and BJP rekindled their alliance, Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) on Wednesday hinted that the two parties have joined hands only for the election and not to form a coalition government. “We never said (about) coalition government. You have misunderstood. Leave that. It’s an electoral alliance, not coalition government,”…
