PM Modi’s UAE visit to focus on energy security

IANS | May 13, 2026 8:54 PM

New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) Energy security will be one of the key focus areas during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the UAE on Friday, and two important MoUs in the areas of LPG and strategic petroleum reserves are likely to be concluded during it, according to official sources.

One more night of waiting to know who will be the next Kerala CM

IANS | May 13, 2026 8:10 PM

New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram, May 12 (IANS) After ten days of suspense, anxiety, lobbying and endless political whispers stretching from Delhi to Kerala, the Congress high command on Wednesday night finally signalled that the wait for the southern state's next Chief Minister was nearing an end.

PM Modi hails BJP’s spectacular show in Haryana Municipal elections

IANS | May 13, 2026 7:27 PM

New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday welcomed the “spectacular victory” of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Haryana Municipal Corporation elections and called it a testament of people’s unwavering faith in the developmental and good governance policies of the double-engine government.

Communist divide resurfaces in Kerala even after defeat, again over power-sharing

Jayanta Bhattacharya | May 13, 2026 7:12 PM

New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) The struggle for space within the Left domain is not without antecedents, and beyond Kerala, where, after the recent poll defeat of the Left Democratic Front (LDF), tensions between the Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Communist Party of India-Marxist -- or CPI-M -- surfaced publicly over the position of Deputy Leader of Opposition in State Assembly.