Author: Rumpa Rani Das
The Ministry of Education has clarified that the Chairperson of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is not legally bound to personally answer questions raised by a parliamentary House panel.
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta has expressed strong support for the proposed One Nation, One Election (ONOE) initiative and said the Delhi government is prepared to shorten the tenure of the current Delhi Legislative Assembly if required to align Assembly elections with the Lok Sabha polls.
A high-voltage wave of political instability has tightly gripped the Shiv Sena (UBT) after a devastating parliamentary mutiny threatened to spill directly into its state legislative wing. Fresh off the heels of six Lok Sabha MPs formally crossing over to Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena under the banner of “Operation Tiger,” acute panic reverberated through the opposition camp as four crucial state legislators skipped an emergency strategy session convened by Uddhav Thackeray at the party’s ‘Shivalay’ office in Mumbai on Monday evening, June 22, 2026. The high-stakes meeting—intended to project an ironclad front on the opening day of the state assembly’s monsoon session—was visibly diluted by the physical absence of MLAs Sanjay Potnis, Rahul Patil, and Sanjay Derkar, alongside MLC Sunil Shinde. Anticipating allegations of an imminent collapse, party chief whip Sunil Prabhu moved swiftly to issue a damage-control layout, clarifying that all four absentee lawmakers had submitted valid advance leaves citing urgent Legislative Council voting preparations, ill health, and personal rural travel. However, the optics fueled an aggressive offensive inside the Vidhan Bhavan, where Chief Minister Shinde mocked the remaining Maha Vikas Aghadi benches, declaring that the opposition had “lost its mental balance” from the shock and warning that far more severe defections are already locked in transit. Refusing to yield, a defiant Uddhav Thackeray initiated a counter-offensive, ordering the remaining 22 loyalist legislators to physically mobilize and capture ground-level shakhas across the home constituencies of the turncoat MPs.
In a significant relief for salaried employees, the West Bengal government has announced a proposal to double the Profession Tax exemption limit from ₹10,000 to ₹20,000 per month.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing growing pressure to step down amid increasing dissatisfaction within the ruling Labour Party. Several Labour Members of Parliament (MPs) have reportedly questioned his leadership following a decline in public support and a series of disappointing electoral performances.
Transforming Odisha’s economic landscape with a historic tribal welfare and heavy-industry developmental blueprint, Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined President Droupadi Murmu to launch mega projects worth ₹47,600 crore on Saturday, June 20, 2026. Structured around the central theme “Vikas ra Dhara, Odisha Sara”, the high-profile rollout coincided with the second anniversary celebrations of Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi’s government and marked a deeply symbolic homecoming for the President on her 68th birthday. In a rare display of statecraft, the two leaders walked an unpaved rural corridor in Murmu’s native village of Pahadpur in Mayurbhanj district, offering joint prayers at the sacred Santhali Jahera and Ho Jahera groves before shifting to Rairangpur for the comprehensive industrial dedications. The massive financial package anchors India’s green transition, laying foundation stones for the 600 MW Upper Indravati Pumped Storage Project, the Stage-II expansion of the IB Thermal Power Station, and the pioneering Bharat Coal Gasification and Chemicals Limited (BCGCL) plant in Jharsuguda. Additionally, the multi-sector blueprint bolsters regional healthcare by dedicating a 300-bedded District Headquarters Hospital at Boudh alongside critical new bypass arteries and sports research complexes designed to fully extend macro-economic benefits to the state’s tribal heartland.
In a major political development, the parliamentary wing of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) has witnessed a significant split, with six of its nine Lok Sabha Members of Parliament reportedly breaking away from the party.
Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has announced that elections to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will be conducted by December 7, 2026, paving the way for the formation of a newly elected civic board in Kolkata.
India and France have agreed to deepen their strategic partnership by setting ambitious new goals in trade, defence, technology, innovation, and clean energy cooperation. The decision was announced following bilateral talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron in Nice.
The internal fissures ripping through the Trinamool Congress (TMC) exploded into a full-scale parliamentary crisis on Sunday, June 14, 2026, as a powerful dissident faction formalized a strategy to break away from the party’s central high command. The rebel camp, marshaled by several disgruntled senior lawmakers, has officially scheduled a high-stakes meeting with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla for Monday morning to demand formal recognition as a separate parliamentary group. Claiming the allegiance of a “substantial number” of sitting TMC MPs, the faction aims to bypass the rigorous penal disqualifications of the Tenth Schedule (Anti-Defection Law) by proving they hold a definitive two-thirds legislative majority of the party’s elected lower-house strength. In Kolkata, the core leadership under West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee moved swiftly to contain the damage, fiercely condemning the mutiny as a treasonous conspiracy orchestrated to erode the regional party’s formidable clout in New Delhi. While the TMC high command prepares a slate of immediate suspension notices and legal counters, the outcome of Monday’s memorandum submission remains heavily dependent on the Speaker’s structural ruling, a decision that could radically alter national opposition alignments and shift the power balance within West Bengal’s hyper-polarized political ecosystem.