In this breaking news report, India Today Senior Editor Mausami Singh details the escalating political confrontation between the BJP and Congress over the new VBG Ramji Bill, which replaces MGNREGA. Union Minister for Rural Development Shivraj Singh Chouhan has strongly defended the legislation, dismissing Congress's protests as 'merely political'. The report highlights Rahul Gandhi's allegation that the 'entire bill... was brought at the behest of the PMO' without the minister's prior knowledge. Mausami Singh notes that the Congress plans a mass mobilization campaign, while Chouhan asserts the opposition is misleading the poor.
In an exclusive interview with India Today, legal expert Harish Salve discussed the constitutional crisis in West Bengal following Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's refusal to resign despite losing her seat and the decisive mandate against her party.
An India Today ground report from Tehran details the ongoing conflict, its impact on the city's infrastructure and how Iranians have gathered at Enghelab Square to demonstrate solidarity and unity amid war.
The Congress state unit in Tamil Nadu held an online meeting and decided to extend support to TVK. Congress is seeking a power-sharing agreement and is likely to demand two cabinet portfolios, along with a few board and corporation chairman posts, and other government roles such as trust members and directors.
Watch as India Today's Geeta Mohan brings this exclusive ground report from Iran's fourteenth-century Golestan Palace, which was damaged during the US-Israel airstrikes on Tehran.
