House byline
Politics correspondent
Sana Qureshi is a house byline for InfoHandle’s Politics desk.
INDIA alliance MPs plan a Friday march from Parliament toward Rashtrapati Bhavan after a third day at Rajghat, demanding the chief election commissioner’s exit and a halt to the special intensive voter revision.
Finance ministers meeting in New Delhi agreed to end GST officers’ arrest authority and quadruple the prosecution trigger to ₹5 crore while leaving rate tweaks on an annual calendar.
INDIA bloc parties shut shops and slowed buses statewide while Delhi police opened a new case tied to Wednesday’s Election Commission protests involving Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi.
Kerala State Electricity Board scheduled four-hour rotating outages in Ernakulam district after a monsoon landslide damaged a 110 kV line feeding the industrial belt.
A residential block in New Seemapuri pancaked on Wednesday afternoon, killing at least one child and sending eight injured people to hospital while NDRF teams cut through lantern debris to reach those still buried.
Gujarat Health Minister Praful Pansheriya ordered intensive fogging and larvicidal sweeps at National Unity Day parade lodging in Gandhinagar after dengue cases appeared among paramilitary personnel rehearsing for the 31 October event.
INDIA bloc lawmakers were stopped on Parliament Street while marching to the Election Commission, intensifying a confrontation over voter-list revisions that opposition parties say could disenfranchise millions.
Jammu and Kashmir officials flew the first 150 of about 600 surveyed Bangladeshi nationals to Bagdogra for handover to border forces, with another 150 scheduled Tuesday as a federal panel tracks demographic change.
The Election Commission directed booth-level officers in states that finished the special intensive revision to re-enroll eligible voters dropped from rolls using the standard Form 6.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court ordered the CBI to register a criminal case after the Enforcement Directorate accused Bhagwant Mann’s office of running a cash-for-postings racket the state police never acted on.
Voters in Assam, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry head to polls on Oct. 6 for five assembly seats and the Nagaon Lok Sabha vacancy, in a mid-term test for ruling parties and the opposition INDIA bloc.
The Rajya Sabha listed a bill to align Bihar’s legislative assembly seat count with population data for introduction Tuesday, reviving opposition demands for caste census linkage before any delimitation exercise.
A third day of marches against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar turned violent near Jantar Mantar when demonstrators stopped a police bus, broke a window and helped detained activists escape.
An FIR names roughly 500 participants after a Cockroach Janta Party rally spilled onto Dadar roads, as opposition marches in Mumbai and Delhi kept pressure on the Election Commission over voter-roll revision.
Opposition leaders attacked Gujarat’s government after dengue hospitalised personnel rehearsing for the 31 October Rashtriya Ekta Diwas parade at Ekta Nagar.
All India Students’ Association leader Neha Bora told supporters to regroup at Jantar Mantar on Saturday after Delhi Police removed nearly 1,000 people from the site during a crackdown on protests over the Election Commission’s special intensive revision of voter rolls.
A water boiler explosion at a private pharma unit inside the Sri City special economic zone killed four workers on Saturday morning, with Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu ordering officials to support families as police probe the cause.
Aspirants for Bihar’s legislative council teacher constituencies face a 6 October nomination deadline in an eight-seat biennial cycle that culminates in 23 October polling.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi published a nearly 10-minute clip of Captain Smit Machchhar recounting how he opened the cockpit door while wounded on a Tel Aviv-bound flydubai flight, turning a regional security scare into a moment of national pride.
Bihar’s final electoral roll lists 7.42 crore voters after a net deletion of roughly 47 lakh names, setting the stage for a tight assembly poll schedule.
The chief minister refused to leave the state election commission until police register a case over Form 7 applications he says targeted Congress voters.
British citizen Jagtar Singh Johal walked out of a Delhi prison after judges warned the government it would face contempt for keeping him in custody despite a September bail ruling.
The prime minister and U.S. president discussed trade, defence and energy after Washington gained power to impose punitive tariffs on buyers of Russian crude.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar told a parliamentary committee that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed trade and Russia-linked oil sanctions in their first call since Washington authorised punitive tariffs.
Volunteers dismantled part of the Shahi Mosque after a court declined to halt road widening for the 2028 Simhastha Kumbh, leaving Ujjain tense following tear gas and street clashes earlier in the week.
Nineteen opposition parties backed October rallies and a return to paper ballots after commissioners’ dissent over Special Intensive Revision orders fuelled calls for the chief election commissioner’s exit.
Pradeep Purnekar, the Shiv Sena (UBT) division chief in Thane, died after gunmen shot him outside his office on Tuesday night, police said, as investigators reviewed CCTV and set up checkpoints across the city.
The Department of Financial Services said NPCI's September 15 circular keeps foreign credit cards off UPI and denies USTR pressure shaped MDR rules.
Chief Justice Surya Kant agreed to list next week a petition alleging Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar acted alone on roll revisions and other steps despite objections from fellow commissioners.
The power ministry cleared extra coal rakes for Konkan thermal plants serving Mumbai and Pune ahead of Navratri, when evening load from lighting and cooling typically spikes.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s resolution demanding urgent restoration of full statehood passed Monday after BJP legislators walked out, escalating a fight over Article 370 and assembly procedure.
The Election Commission scheduled an independent source-code review of its Special Intensive Revision application after a dissenting commissioner’s memorandum questioned automated voter-roll notices sent to millions of households.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar used India's UN General Assembly address to reject any normalization of cross-border terror, a day after Pakistan's prime minister raised Kashmir and the 2025 conflict.
Maharashtra's September 26 government resolution declares drought in 265 of 358 talukas, with Yavatmal and Jalgaon carrying the heaviest block of listed talukas — and starting the survey, compensation and water-supply clocks that follow a scarcity order.
ECI orders a committee-led review of voter-roll software after an Indian Express report details repeated dissent over exclusions; opposition alleges BJP benefit, and flagged voters now face door-to-door verification.
Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif told the UN General Assembly that diverting or holding back Pakistan's Indus share would be treated as an act of war, lifting a treaty-compliance dispute onto the security track as India keeps the 1960 agreement in abeyance.
Congress workers were detained and water cannons used as the party demanded Chief Election Commissioner Kumar quit over electoral roll revision, turning a procedural calendar into a political confrontation.
Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra filed a police complaint at Parliament Street on September 24 against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, alleging voter-roll manipulation in Delhi’s special intensive revision, citing Indian Express reporting on fellow commissioners’ objections to Form 6 changes and IT centralisation.
Uddhav Thackeray demanded Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s removal and jail terms at Matoshree on September 23, called for ballot-paper repolls in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, and cited voter-list disputes after an Indian Express report on objections by fellow commissioners.
An Indian Express investigation shows Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi recorded at least 14 formal objections to voter-roll steps they called illegal, sparking opposition demands for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s removal hours after the panel insisted decisions were unanimous.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar told US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on UNGA sidelines Wednesday that India’s interests must be weighed under the new Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act, which can authorize up to 100 percent tariffs on major Russian oil buyers after President Trump signed it September 18.
The GST Council met in Delhi Tuesday without agreeing a rate rationalisation timetable as producing states demanded compensation clarity and the Centre pressed to merge 12% and 18% slabs before the next compensation cess deadline.
India’s Supreme Court told the Election Commission on Tuesday that notices sent to more than 3.3 million Delhi electors during a special intensive revision appear “machine-generated” and may lack the individualized scrutiny the law requires.
A parliamentary panel told ministries to cut EV charger permitting below 45 days in Delhi-NCR industrial estates, citing lost shift hours while DISCOMs and fire officials serially clear the same sites.
Meghalaya’s district councils published Shillong peak-hour power ration rosters before the winter Assembly session, separating RDSS upgrade shutdowns from evening load caps as MeECL fields anger over unannounced cuts in the hill city.
TRAI opened consultation on limited OTT messaging interoperability pilots aimed at enterprise rivals to WhatsApp, testing whether regulated SMS-style numbering can reach Meta's dominant consumer graph without breaking encryption claims.
The Election Commission reminded Maharashtra parties and district officers that model code rules apply as returning officers constitutepolling panels for an upcoming assembly cycle, warning against fresh government resolutions on official websites.