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In a setback to the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) that was launched with much fanfare, the CPM has decided not to be part of the grand Opposition bloc. The party Politburo, in a two-day meeting, has also decided against seat sharing with other parties, as part of the alliance.

The CPM top brass informed leaders of the Congress and other constituents of the alliance that its decision not to nominate a representative to the coordination committee of INDIA was taken on the basis of this political position.

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday once again challenged Congress leaders Kamal Nath as well as Bhupesh Baghel to take party's veteran Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi to Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.

Addressing a public rally as part of BJP's ‘parivartan yatra’ campaign ahead of the assembly elections in Chhattisgarh's Surajpur, Sarma said the Congress leaders who claim themselves to be Hindus should take the Gandhi family to pay obeisance to Ram Lalla in Ayodhya. "Kamal Nath ji in Madhya Pradesh and Bhupesh Baghel in Chhattisgarh say that they are also Hindus. I challenge them that if they are Hindus, then they should take Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi to Ayodhya's Ram Lalla temple once," he said.

Russia has more than tenfold increased production of various military gear to equip its troops in Ukraine, dramatically expanding output of missiles, drones, combat vehicles, and artillery, Russia’s largest weapons manufacturer said on Tuesday.

President Vladimir Putin has ordered an increase in production to guarantee Moscow meets the goals of its “special military operation” in Ukraine, despite the West supplying Kyiv with billions of dollars in weaponry and putting unprecedented Western sanctions on the Russian economy.

DMK member A Raja's remarks in Lok Sabha on the European Parliament adopting a resolution criticising the Indian government's handling of the situation in Manipur kicked off a row with Union minister Piyush Goyal demanding they be expunged.

Raja, while participating in a discussion on '75 years of Parliament', mentioned the issue of the situation in Manipur which has seen sporadic ethnic violence since May 3.

In the Shiv Sena vs Shiv Sena legal war, the Supreme Court on Monday pulled up Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar for not acting on disqualification pleas on time and tasked him to take up such petitions within one week.

The Apex court also asked the speaker to inform it within two weeks, of the timeline of how these disqualification proceedings would be conducted and expressed disappointment over the delay in the process of disqualifications that arose as a result of the rift within the Shiv Sena party between the Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde factions.