A gunfight between security forces and armed volunteers at Bitiang village in Manipur’s Noney district left one Naga Village Guard (NVG) member dead and several people injured on Wednesday, July 29, triggering widespread protests and a shutdown call across Naga-inhabited areas.
Odisha's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government paid tribute to a hardline Hindu leader long associated with campaigns against the Christian community on July 28, renaming a state medical college in his name and unveiling his biography at an event where, according to a local news report, speakers called for the state to be made "church-free" and demanded curbs on the activities of vidharmis, a Sanskrit-derived term literally meaning one of another faith or one opposed to dharma, traditionally t
The All India Catholic Union (AICU) has welcomed remarks by Supreme Court judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan on constitutional liberty and the rights of minorities, delivered while he was giving the 4th Justice G.P. Singh Memorial Lecture at the National Law Institute University (NLIU), Bhopal, on 25 July.
The Council of Churches in Mizoram (CCM) said on Thursday that its member churches would take to the streets of Aizawl on August 11, in what will be the first joint public show of dissent by the state’s Christian denominations against the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026.
Supreme Court judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan said on Saturday, July 25, that the room for democratic dissent is narrowing in India, telling an audience at the National Law Institute University (NLIU), Bhopal, that students, activists and ordinary citizens are being turned into accused persons simply for taking to the streets or speaking their mind.
Assam’s flood death toll was reported at 68 on Monday, July 27, with the ASDMA reporting no new fatalities in the preceding 24 hours. The authority’s bulletin counted 4,45,495 people still affected across six districts, Sivasagar, Golaghat, Charaideo, Jorhat, Nagaon and Kamrup (Metropolitan), down from Sunday’s 5.24 lakh across five districts, after two deaths in Charaideo had taken the toll to 68.
The Cockroach Janta Party’s stand-off with the Modi government appeared to end on July 25, when Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned and CJP called off its 36-day protest at Jantar Mantar. Over the following days, the truce came under strain from several directions at once: CJP accused state governments of detaining protesters despite Centre assurances, a Bihar policeman was caught on video firing an AK-47, a police diary entry contradicted Delhi Police’s own public denial that p
The Maharashtra government has constituted a 27-member committee to examine whether members of Scheduled Tribes (STs) who convert to another religion should continue to receive reservation and other government welfare benefits.
Toko Teki, UCF Spokesperson for the Northeast Region, called on Union Minister for Minority Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs Kiren Rijiju in New Delhi on 21 July, Tuesday, and submitted a letter seeking the government’s intervention on the proposed Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026.
A day after being detained outside the Prime Minister’s residence, Rahul Gandhi and Opposition MPs from the INDIA bloc turned up in Parliament on Wednesday wearing black, marking what they called a “Black Day” over alleged irregularities in NEET and the police action against protesting students.
The Cockroach Janta Party’s push to reach Parliament has left nearly 180 people injured, sent hunger-striking activist Sonam Wangchuk to hospital, and stalled two straight days of the Monsoon Session of the Parliament, with no resolution in sight as protesters returned to Jantar Mantar for a third day running on Wednesday, July 22.
The Union government has listed a bill to give the national song Vande Mataram the same statutory protection as the national anthem and the contentious Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026 for the Monsoon Session of Parliament beginning July 20. The session will run till August 13.
