Voters in phase 1 of Lok Sabha elections, in Rajasthan, 19 April 2024

Opinion

Democracy’s topsoil is blowing away

Punjab minister Sanjeev Arora

POLITICS

ED raids Punjab minister Sanjeev Arora, linked persons in fresh PMLA case

TN governor Rajendra V. Arlekar with AMMK chief Dhinakaran in Chennai, 8 May

POLITICS

Dhinakaran urges TN governor to ask EPS to form govt in fresh bid to block TVK

Villages that grow tonnes of water-guzzling sugarcane also clamour for tankers to supply drinking water

Opinion

Of sugar highs and water lows

TVK chief Vijay celebrates his party’s victory, but the challenges of coalition politics still lie ahead

Opinion

Vijay pries open the politics of Tamil Nadu

File photo of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping before a meeting in Busan, South Korea

World

China says exports jump 14.1 pc from a year ago ahead of Trump-Xi summit

BJP workers in Kolkata celebrate the brute majority the party won on 4 May

Opinion

A people’s mandate lost in the fog of SIR

Protesters outside the US embassy in London on 21 March, International Day of Solidarity with Cuba

World

Rubio defends fresh US sanctions on Cuba targeting military-run business empire

A bulk cargo ship sits at anchor in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, 2 May

World

US fires on and disables 2 more Iranian tankers as tensions rise in Hormuz

Emergency services personnel extinguish a fire from a Russian drone attack in the Kyiv region, 5 May

World

Trump says Russia, Ukraine agreed on three-day ceasefire, prisoner swap

Rahul Gandhi, Rao Narender Singh and Brijendra Singh with others during 'Sadbhav Yatra', in Gurugram

POLITICS

BJP has established system to 'steal' elections but public anger will bring it down: Rahul

Suvendu Adhikari addresses the gathering at the BJP legislature party meeting, in Kolkata, 8 May

POLITICS

Suvendu Adhikari: From Mamata loyalist to BJP’s face in Bengal

Riyan Parag's vaping incident has placed a spotlight on other misdemeanours

Sports

Laxity of some franchises forced us to take action, says BCCI secretary