On the evening of July 24, in a dignified ceremony held at the Dushyant Kumar Memorial Manuscript Museum, Bhopal, one of the country's senior journalists, Rajendra Sharma (New Delhi) was honoured with the Lokjatan Samman 2026.

ON July 20, 2026, lakhs of students and young people assembled at Jantar Mantar in central Delhi under the banner of the Cockroach Janta Party and Left student organisations - SFI, AISA and AISF, demanding accountability for the recurring NEET paper leaks that have driven dozens of students to suicide. The state's visible response was brutal enough: lathi charges, tear gas grenades fired directly into dense crowds, and plastic pellet rounds that left over 180 protesters injured and at least 42 hospitalised with compound fractures and pellet lacerations.

ON July 10, 2026, the Government of Maharashtra finally announced the withdrawal of two restrictive conditions that had been imposed on the 2026 Farm Loan Waiver Scheme declared a month earlier on June 2. This marked a major victory for the farmers' movement in the state. It was the third major farm loan waiver wrested by the farmers of Maharashtra during the last one decade, from 2017 to 2026.

AMNESTY International’s new report, Made in India: The Supply of Weapons and Ammunition to Israel, tears away the diplomatic gauze with which the Narendra Modi government has covered its relationship with Israel. India continues to speak, now and then, of a two-state solution and humanitarian relief for Gaza. But beneath this thin vocabulary lies a dense traffic in gun parts, artillery shells, drone warheads, mortar launchers and components for armoured vehicles.

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on August 6, 2026

THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its strong opposition to the Union government’s proposal to levy of charges on UPI transactions.