Cabinet on Friday approved Rs 30,000 crore LPG subsidy to state-run oil companies — Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum, and Hindustan Petroleum — to compensate for losses incurred from selling LPG at below cost over the past 15 months.

Saurabh Bharadwaj declared that the Supreme Court branding the Enforcement Directorate (ED) as a “crook” is not just unprecedented-but a damning reflection of how deeply compromised India’s institutions have become under BJP rule.

With the Bihar assembly election just months away, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is closely watching recent comments made by ally Chirag Paswan on the Nitish Kumar government’s handling of the law and order situation in the state.