The main organiser of the mega event, involving Argentine World Cup hero Lionel Messi, was arrested hours after chaos broke out at the iconic Salt Lake Stadium on Saturday, forcing the footballer to leave the venue early.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday issued a public apology after a chaos that unfolded at the iconic Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata during an event which marked Argentine football icon Lionel Messi's return to the city after 14 years.
Celebrations around Lionel Messi’s visit to Kolkata descended into chaos on Friday as Salt Lake Stadium briefly turned into a battleground, with angry spectators throwing bottles and objects after failing to get a clear view of the football icon. #Messi #MessiInKolkata Utter chaos and vandalism at salt lake stadium pic.twitter.com/vl1wHPpSI5 — India Blooms (@indiablooms) December 13, 2025
The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Friday approved the proposal to conduct the Census of India 2027 at an estimated cost of Rs. 11,718.24 crore.
The inaugural India - Greece Maritime Security Dialogue was held on Thursday in Athens, Greece, when the two sides exchanged assessments of the maritime environment in the Mediterranean, Arctic and the Indo-Pacific regions.
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has once again missed a key meeting of the party’s Lok Sabha MPs led by Rahul Gandhi.
Kolkata/IBNS: The warning had come from the person whose word mattered the most. “People will spoil your name,” Sulekha Menon had told her son, a rising diplomat with a spotless global reputation. For a mother watching her child walk into the rough-and-tumble of Indian politics, it was nothing short of heartbreak. But Shashi Tharoor, even then, was ready to leap.
The slow-burn drama over Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Humayun Kabir’s explosive statements—labelled communal and inflammatory by his party—finally reached a climax last week when he was suspended by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Baharampur.
New Delhi/IBNS: Former Union Home Minister and veteran Congress leader Shivraj Patil passed away at the age of 90 on Friday after a brief illness at his residence in Latur, Maharashtra, media reports confirmed.
Kolkata/IBNS: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has strongly criticised the legal provision that exempts husbands from India’s rape law as he introduced a private member’s bill in Parliament seeking its removal.
Four months after the United States imposed steep 50 percent tariffs on most Indian goods, Mexico has now followed suit, approving duties of up to 50 percent on a wide range of imports from Asian countries, including India and China.
As passengers continue to face widespread flight delays and cancellations following IndiGo’s operational collapse, new data tabled in the Lok Sabha has revealed an uncomfortable truth: most of India’s airlines are deep in the red.
Amid growing speculation about a breakthrough on a long-pending trade deal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump held a phone conversation on Thursday, reviewing the state of India–US ties and discussing ways to deepen cooperation across several strategic sectors.
New Delhi/IBNS: The Election Commission has extended the timeline for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in five states and a Union Territory (UT), even as political attention turns sharply toward poll-bound West Bengal, which did not receive any extension.
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee intensified her attack on the BJP-led Centre over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, issuing a dramatic warning to voters and asserting that attempts to intimidate citizens will not be tolerated.
Kolkata/IBNS: A key witness in the Sandeshkhali gang-rape and land-grab investigations narrowly survived a violent collision on Wednesday morning when a 10-wheeler truck rammed his car off Basanti Highway in Kolkata's neighbouring South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal.
Bangkok/IBNS: The Luthra brothers, owners of Goa’s “Birch by Romeo Lane” nightclub that went up in flames last week, killing 25 people, have been detained in Thailand, according to sources familiar with the development.
New Delhi/IBNS: The owners of the Goa nightclub where a deadly fire broke out last week have been detained in Thailand, according to media reports.
The Election Commission is expected to extend the deadline for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Uttar Pradesh and several other states, senior EC officials told NDTV.
The investigation into the devastating fire at a Goa nightclub, which left at least 25 people dead on December 6, has uncovered a startling timeline suggesting that two of the establishment’s owners were arranging their escape even as emergency crews struggled to save lives, media reports said.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi clashed sharply in the Lok Sabha during a heated debate on electoral reforms, making for one of the most confrontational exchanges of the season.
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor declined the inaugural Veer Savarkar International Impact Award 2025, calling the organisers “irresponsible” for announcing his name without his approval.
New Delhi/IBNS: The IndiGo crisis that triggered thousands of flight cancellations and caused fares to skyrocket to nearly Rs 40,000 came under severe judicial scrutiny on Wednesday.
Indian PM Narendra Modi is expected to host Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the third week of January, just weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin visited New Delhi for a high-profile visit to the South Asian nation, media reports said.
The India–United States Foreign Office Consultations (FOC), co-chaired by Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and U.S. Under Secretary of State Allison Hooker, was held in New Delhi on Tuesday against the backdrop of President Donald Trump’s latest threat to impose tariffs on Indian rice.
Kolkata/IBNS: Two Muslim street vendors were allegedly assaulted on Sunday near downtown Kolkata for selling non-veg puffs during the mega ‘Gita-path’ event at the Brigade Parade Ground, according to media reports.
New Delhi/IBNS: The central government has directed IndiGo to cut its flight operations by 10 percent amid a spate of cancellations that left thousands of passengers stranded across airports nationwide over the past week, according to media reports.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a criminal case against Jai Anmol Ambani, son of industrialist Anil Ambani, following allegations of cheating and fund diversion that led to a loss of Rs 228.06 crore for Union Bank of India, media reports said.
The family of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, the iconic writer who composed Vande Mataram, has praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for commemorating 150 years of the national song, even as they criticised the West Bengal government for what they described as long-standing indifference to the literary giant.
On her 79th birthday, Congress veteran Sonia Gandhi briefly responded to reporters with a smiling “Vande Mataram”, a remark that immediately fed into a political storm already intensifying for two days over the national song.
