Parliament at a standstill, protests on streets: The Monsoon session story

19% in Lok Sabha, 39% in Rajya Sabha: How Monsoon Session unfolded beyond the Parliament For 25 days, Parliament’s Monsoon Session played out on two different stages.Inside the Houses, proceedings were repeatedly disrupted, adjournments were frequent and Question Hour had barely any time remaining. Outside, political activity rarely stopped. Students marched, Opposition leaders protested, ministers…

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Suvendu Adhikari slams Congress’ Sonia Gandhi over I-Day Vande Mataram row

West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari slams Sonia Gandhi NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday slammed Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi over the controversy surrounding the recitation of Vande Mataram at the Congress headquarters on Independence Day, saying the ‘Entire Bengal fuming, Congress must apologise’.Adhikari also accused the Congress of…

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Air India Express flyer’s pistol ‘accidentally’ goes off at Varanasi airport: How it unfolded

Two security screeners were injured at Varanasi airport on Sunday morning. LUCKNOW: Two ad-hoc cargo screening employees, including a woman, were injured after a passenger’s licensed pistol accidentally discharged during a weapons check at Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport in Varanasi on Sunday morning.The incident occurred around 9.30 am when 55-year-old Kamlesh Rai, a resident…

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In 1948, scientists left a giant fossil on an Arctic island because they could not carry it; 78 years later it became a record-size new predator

The fossil of Arctobatrachus urdensis as documented in 1948 (A–C), its skull as it appears today (D), and a reconstructed illustration (E). Scale bar: 10 cm. Credit: Schoch et al., 2026. Nearly 80 years ago, a British expedition discovered the battered remains of a giant fossil on the peak of an Arctic island. Unable to…

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BJP lodges complaint against Sonia Gandhi as Vande Mataram row intensifies

The controversy erupted after visuals from the Independence Day programme at the Congress headquarters showed senior party leaders speaking among themselves NEW DELHI: BJP leaders on Sunday lodged a formal complaint against Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi at the Urwa Police Station in Karnataka. The move escalated a political row over the recitation of…

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