Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) founder Prashant Kishor scripted a major political upset in Bihar by defeating the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate in the Bankipur Assembly byelection, a constituency represented for five consecutive terms by the BJP’s national president Nitin Nabin. The BJP retained Manjalpur in Gujarat while the Congress held on to Madhya Pradesh’s Datia in other Assembly byelections.

Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen on Sunday said that, in her opinion, madrasas “should not exist”, alleging that some of these educational institutions were producing “jihadis” and witnessing cases of child abuse.

West Bengal Chief Minister SuvenduAdhikari is the second least wealthy among the country’s Chief Ministers, with declared assets of ₹85.87 lakh, according to an analysis of election affidavits released by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and National Election Watch.

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.