On June 13, Karnataka’s home minister Priyank Kharge sent a letter to RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat asking him to reveal its ‘legal status, registration, office bearers, funding, expenditure, taxation and permissions for public activities.’  This drew two bizarre responses. One was from Bhagwat himself, who even while saying that he doesn’t need to respond to the letter, declared that "Hindu Dharma is not registered. Many things are not registered,” and that the government knows that the Sangh exists.

THE US-Israel war against Iran is a continuation of a war that the US and Israel have launched in West Asia against any country or organised resistance to their neo-colonial policies. However, Iran’s resistance, along with Hezbollah’s ability to fight Israel’s “expansion” into Lebanon, has created a new dynamic in the region for the first time. It has not only challenged US global hegemony but also shown that smaller military powers can resist much larger ones through asymmetric warfare.

THE Iran–US Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) emerged not from reconciliation, but from exhaustion and strategic failure by the United States and its allies. It was the product of a war that had reached its political limits. Washington and Tel Aviv presented their illegal war of aggression as a necessary response to Iran’s nuclear energy programme, missile capabilities, and regional alliances.

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on June 19, 2026

THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) notes with optimism the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Iran and the United States of America (USA). This is expected to bring much-needed relief to people across the globe, who have been severely affected by the unwarranted US-Israel aggression against Iran.

On 19th June 2026, major trade unions of Mumbai held a militant joint demonstration at the Collectors office at Bandra Kurla Complex in the vicinity of the US Consulate, to protest against the murder of three Indian sailors by the US military missile strike on a civilian cargo ship in international waters near Iran.  The participating unions included the CITU, AITUC,  INTUC,  AICCTU, FSUI, and TUCI.