Author: Esha Ghosh
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Bhushan R. Gavai recently highlighted that the CJI is not superior to other Supreme Court judges; he is just the “first among equals.”
A political dispute has arisen in Bihar after RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav accused Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha of holding two voter ID cards, one for each of the Lakhisarai and Bankipur Assembly constituencies.
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to introduce open-book assessments (OBAs) for Class 9 students starting in the 2026-27 academic session. The board’s Governing Body approved this decision in June after a pilot study examined the feasibility and acceptance of this format in schools.
In a direct challenge to the BJP and Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the detention and deportation of Bengali migrants, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee demanded that Shah show his parents’ birth certificates.
In a significant move to enforce party discipline, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) accepted the resignation of senior Parliament member Kalyan Banerjee from his position as Lok Sabha Chief Whip.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has once again blamed the Central Government and the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) for the ongoing flood situation in the state, calling it mainly “man-made.”
Congress MP and Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi will host a dinner meeting for leaders of the INDIA bloc in New Delhi on Thursday, August 7. This bloc was formed ahead of the Lok Sabha elections last year.
After spending nine days in custody and facing a political uproar, two Catholic nuns from Kerala, Sister Preethi Mary and Sister Vandana Francis, were granted bail and released from Durg Central Jail in Chhattisgarh.
A strong magnitude 8.8 earthquake, one of the strongest recorded in recent history, hit off Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, triggering tsunami waves that reached Japan’s northern coast. The shallow underwater quake sent shockwaves across the Pacific and led to widespread tsunami warnings and evacuations in several countries.
The world’s most expensive civilian Earth imaging satellite, NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite), has launched from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh and has reached its orbit.