Political aspirants often spend years building their careers, working tirelessly in the hope of securing an election ticket from a major party. But for a couple in Gujarat’s Amreli district, the process took an unexpected turn, with the husband and wife receiving offers from all three parties – the BJP, Congress and the AAP –...

Peace talks between the United States and Iran stalled after disagreements over Tehran’s nuclear commitments, with the scope and duration of uranium enrichment curbs emerging as the key sticking point.According to reports by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, Washington proposed a 20-year freeze on Iran’s uranium enrichment in its proposal. However,...

Security personnel stand guard as factory workers stage a protest demanding a hike in wages, in Noida, Gautam Buddh Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh, on April 13, 2026. The protest carried incidents of arson, vandalism and stone-pelting reported from Phase-2 and Sector 60 areas, police said. | Photo Credit: PTI The Uttar Pradesh government has hiked...

Workers who began dharnas at factories in Noida on Friday were upset that their counterparts in Haryana had been promised higher wages for the same work, several protesters told The Indian Express on Monday morning. The four-day-old protest by workers escalated on Monday and quickly degenerated into vandalism and arson across Noida’s industrial belt. Following...

In a case that has shocked the region, a man allegedly killed his six-year-old son and dumped the body in a river, driven by suspicion over the child’s paternity in Maharashtra, police said. The crime came to light nearly 20 days after the murder, when investigators cracked what initially appeared to be a blind case....

NEW DELHI: Parliament is on the verge of making history, PM Narendra Modi said on Monday ahead of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha taking up his govt’s bills to implement women’s reservation in legislatures from 2029, as he expressed confidence amid demurring voices from Congress and its allies that the opposition will back the...

Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal at The Hindu office on April 13, 2026. | Photo Credit: R. Ragu Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday (April 13, 2026) said the 33% reservation for women in Parliament and the Assemblies would be implemented by 2029. During a conversation with journalists of The Hindu, he...

The violence marked a sharp escalation of tensions that had been simmering in the factories since Friday, and the latest in a series of labour protests that have broken out in at least four other cities across North India over the past couple of months. Following two days of dharnas by contractual labour outside factories,...

Even as Delhi’s free pilgrimage scheme has been projected as a key welfare initiative, a Right to Information (RTI) response accessed by India Today points to fluctuating participation and gaps in available data. Launched in 2018 by then Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the Mukhyamantri Teerth Yatra Yojana allows 1,100 senior citizens from each of Delhi’s...

NEW DELHI: Ten days after ED carried out searches at several premises in Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Mumbai on officials of I-PAC, a political consultancy firm whose clients include Trinamool and DMK, the agency on Monday arrested one of its directors and co-founder, Vinesh Chandel. He will be produced before a special court in Delhi...