Author: Anuska Bagchi
The Axiom mission 4 mission, carrying Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, has been postponed to June 10 from its earlier June 8 schedule making it the third delay since its initial May 29 target.
The Gujarat government has announced plans to construct a memorial park named ‘Sindoor Van’ near the Indo-Pak border in Kutch district.
In a groundbreaking step toward gender equality, 17 women cadets graduated from the National Defence Academy, marking the first time women completed the prestigious tri-services training program in India.
During a three day state visit by Paraguayan President Santiago Peña to India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasized their shared resolve to tackle terrorism and related challenges like cybercrime, organized crime and drug trafficking.
Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal or the ICT has formally indicted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on charges of mass murder and crimes against humanity. The charges are based on her alleged role in orchestrating a violent suppression on students in the student led protests between July and August of 2024 resulting in around 1,400 deaths (including students, police and common peopl), according to a UN human rights report.
India has deported over 2,000 undocumented Bangladeshi immigrants since Operation Sindoor began. Following a directive from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, intense efforts against illegal migration and deportation of migrants have taken place.
One of his brothers was a freedom fighter against the British while another sibling was shot to death, Ngugi Wa Thinog’o found his home destroyed when one day he returned from school. The population had been herded to a “protected village” set up by the British to cement control on their colonial subjects.
But instead of picking up arms following the example of his brothers Ngugi used his pen all his life to express his protest against inhumanity. The topics of his writings were all around him.
22 year old Pune Law student and influencer Sharmistha panoli’s communally charged video response to operation sindoor led to her arrest by the Kolkata Police in Gurugram. Panoli has over 175000 followers on Instagram and is known for making short form content, Reels, usually littered in abusive language.
A delegation of 10 MLAs from the NDA, comprising 8 from the BJP, 1 from the NPP, and 1 Independent, met Manipur Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla on May 28 to stake their claim to form a new government in the state. Led by BJP MLA Thokchom Radheshyam Singh, the group submitted a proposal to end the President’s Rule, imposed after the resignation of Chief Minister N. Biren Singh following 20 months of ethnic violence between the Meitei and Kuki Zo communities.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma led cabinet approved a controversial scheme to grant arms licenses to indigenous people in “vulnerable and remote” areas, particularly in Muslim-majority districts like Dhubri, Nagaon, Morigaon, Barpeta, South Salmara, and Goalpara. The policy, officially titled the ‘Special Scheme for Grant of Arms Licenses to Original Inhabitants and Indigenous Indian Citizens’, will targets areas where indigenous communities are minorities, especially near the Bangladesh border.