FEATURE STORY
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (July 29, 2026) provided former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh posthumous relief by agreeing with two back-to-back closure reports filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation in 2014 giving him a clean chit, while highlighting there was no “sufficient material or good reason” to register a corruption case against him in connection with the coal block allocation scam.
The Bihar government on Monday announced the withdrawal of cases registered against students in connection with recent protests over the NEET paper leak issue and directed the immediate release of those detained during the agitation.
Multiple first information reports (FIRs) have been lodged against Bengali actor Sreelekha Mitra across West Bengal on Sunday (July 26, 2026) for allegedly carrying a poster with an objectionable cartoon of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the massive students’ rally in Kolkata on Friday (July 24, 2026) demanding Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation.
Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed the
Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Bill, 2026, which seeks to accord Vande Mataram the same statutory protection as the national anthem, Jana Gana Mana.
Indian equities surged on Wednesday with a broad-based rally, as bargain hunters returned to IT and financials ahead of the US Federal Reserve decision. Both benchmarks logged their best single-day gains in over a week, shrugging off fresh geopolitical noise from the Middle East.
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s remarkably adaptive 81 and an equally solid effort from bowlers led by pacer Mayank Yadav ensured India’s smooth 35-run win over Zimbabwe in the third and final T20I here on Sunday.
