BJP expels four rebel leaders in Bihar ahead of Assembly polls

IANS | October 27, 2025 12:29 PM

Patna, Oct 27 (IANS) Amid the ongoing election campaign for the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections, political parties are tightening internal discipline to project unity within their ranks. In a major move, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday expelled four rebel leaders from the party for six years, accusing them of indiscipline and anti-party activities.

Congress infighting: Parameshwara backs Minister Muniyappa for K'taka CM post

IANS | October 27, 2025 11:55 AM

Bengaluru, Oct 27 (IANS) Amid the ongoing leadership dispute, Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwara has said that he would be happy if senior party leader and Minister for Food, Civil Supplies, and Consumer Affairs, K.H. Muniyappa, who comes from the Dalit community, becomes the Chief Minister.

An Empire's bitter harvest: The sugar rivalry between West Indies and British India (From the Archives)

Santosh Kumar Verma | October 26, 2025 11:27 PM

New Delhi, Oct 26 (IANS) In the early 19th century, within the grand theatre of the British Parliament, a bitter conflict unfolded, not of armies and navies, but of commodities and capital. It was a struggle that pitted one cornerstone of the empire, the powerful West India sugar colonies, against the burgeoning and complex interests of Britain's vast dominion in India.