Tamil Nadu has an electorate of 5.73 crore, voting across 75,064 polling stations to decide the fate of 4,023 candidates in ...

State chief minister MK Stalin voted in Chennai along with deputy CM Udhayanidhi Stalin, while AIADMK chief Edappadi K ...

US President Donald Trump on Monday claimed that the United States is in a strong position in its ongoing conflict with Iran, ...

Permanent secretary, Cat Little, to give evidence to foreign affairs committee as pressure increases on Keir Starmer Helen MacNamara, the former deputy cabinet secretary, was on the Today programme this morning talking about the Cat Little hearing. MacNamara, who is best known to the public for standing up to Dominic Cummings, and for her evidence to the Covid inquiry about this, said there would be a limit to what Little could say. Addressing the presenter, she explained:You said in your introduction there that Cat Little was going to give an account supporting the prime minister. That is literally her job. Cat can’t sit before the committee and say what she thinks or what her own personal opinion is. Her little job is to sit there and say exactly what she’s been told to say by her ministers.The foreign affairs select committee is not the select committee that Cat Little, the permanent Secretary of the Cabinet Office, should be going to …We spent a long time in really turbulent days during Brexit defending the principle that accountability in parliament is proper and that ministers are accountable, and the civil servants who work for them, are accountable for their committees. And this sort of vandalism, where the foreign affairs committee can just call whoever they like in public [is improper]. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Labour MP calls on DVLA to take action, saying ‘speeding, hit and runs and worse’ are going unpunishedMore than 18,000 vehicles are being used in the UK without proper records of where their owners live, it has emerged, part of what a Labour MP has called an increasing problem of “ghost owners” who cannot be held accountable for their driving.According to a freedom of information request to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, 18,260 vehicles were listed in its records as being registered to the DVLA’s own address, meaning the owner’s location was not known. Continue reading...

Iran has captured two foreign commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz and moved them to its coast, in a further escalation ...

West Bengal recorded a turnout of 41.11 per cent till 11 AM in the first phase of the assembly polls on Thursday. Paschim ...

The war began with US and Israel bombing Iran in February and killing their Supreme leader and other top officials. Tehran has since retaliated, striking US bases on the Gulf. A ceasefire announced in ...

The Senate adopted a budget resolution after a five-hour "vote-a-rama," with the GOP moving forward to fund ICE without ...

The three-year agreement will see at least 50 riot-trained police officers drafted in to tackle violence and “hostile crowds”.