The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday, April 29, declined to pass any immediate order on a public interest litigation challenging the constitutional validity of Punjab’s newly enacted anti-sacrilege law, saying it would first examine whether the petition was even maintainable.
A tribunal cleared 55 nuns of the Missionaries of Charity (MC) for inclusion in Bengal’s supplementary electoral rolls on April 28, just hours before polling began in Kolkata, restoring their voting rights in time for the second phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections.
The Baptist Church in West Garo Hills has offered its premises in Tura for a government rehabilitation centre, as Meghalaya’s anti-drug mission steps up efforts to tackle the state’s growing substance abuse crisis in partnership with faith-based institutions.
On the afternoon of Saturday, April 25, fellow passengers on a State Transport bus travelling to Katol in Nagpur district found 75-year-old Laxman Patil lying unresponsive in his seat. He had boarded the bus to attend a family wedding. Doctors at the Rural Hospital declared him dead on arrival. The suspected cause was heatstroke.
The United Christian Forum (UCF) has written to Manipur Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh, calling for urgent and decisive action to address what it described as a “grave and escalating humanitarian crisis” in the conflict-torn state.
A Kuki-Zo village in Manipur's Ukhrul district came under full-scale armed attack in the early hours of Thursday, April 24, as the northeastern Indian state lurches deeper into overlapping violence now drawing in all three of its major communities.
Maharashtra Governor Jishnu Dev Varma has forwarded the state’s Freedom of Religion Bill 2026 to President Draupadi Murmu for consideration and assent, after declining to sign it himself.
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) announced on 21 April that two soldiers would be imprisoned and pulled out of active combat after one was photographed destroying a statue of Jesus Christ with a sledgehammer in a Christian village in southern Lebanon.
Goa Police registered an FIR against Gautam Khattar, founder of Sanatan Mahasangh and a YouTuber from Uttarakhand, for allegedly making derogatory remarks against St Francis Xavier, the patron saint of Goa, following a public event in Vasco da Gama on Saturday evening.
For nearly three years, a law guaranteeing 33 per cent reservation for women in India’s Parliament and state assemblies sat on the books, unanimously passed, signed by the President, and left unnotified. Then, on the evening of April 16, 2026, the Narendra Modi government quietly notified the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam in the official gazette. The very next morning, it introduced three bills in the Lok Sabha that bundled women’s reservation with a sweeping plan to expand Parliament from 543 to
India said on April 17 that it is examining Bangladesh's formal request to extradite convicted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as part of "ongoing judicial and internal legal processes," offering one of the most detailed public statement New Delhi has made since the request was formally raised at high-level bilateral talks nine days earlier.
A Catholic priest in Kerala has stood in as the father of the bride at a Hindu wedding, performing the Kanyadaan ritual and placing her hand in the groom’s. A video of the moment has gone viral.
