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India’s most expensive cinematic production—a mega-budget retelling of the beloved Hindu epic Ramayana—has divided film critics and cultural purists even as it draws packed crowds across theatres. While audiences have celebrated its ambitious visual scale and star-studded lineup, the film faces sharp pushback over colloquial language, creative departures from classical texts, and an over-reliance on visual effects at the expense of emotional depth.
The Bombay High Court has ordered the Election Commission to restore six members of a Goa family whose names were deleted from the voter rolls during a recent revision drive. Justices Valmiki Menezes and Amit Jamsandekar gave officials 10 days to fix the list and criticized an unfair bureaucratic trap where computer rejections forced regular voters into filing forms meant only for first-time electors.
The Democratic Party’s decisive victory in capturing both chambers of the US Congress marks a watershed moment of institutional recalibration against Trumpism. With President Donald Trump framing the midterms as a personal referendum, voters across historically red strongholds—including Texas, Kansas, and the Carolinas—delivered an unmistakable rebuke, restoring constitutional checks and balances and demonstrating democracy’s resilience against extreme polarization.
In a major boost for the ease of doing business, the GST Council has approved landmark compliance reforms that eliminate direct arrest powers for tax officials and raise the threshold for criminal prosecution to ₹5 crore. Chaired by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the 57th Council meeting also slashed general penalty ceilings to ₹10,000, set up a committee to resolve genuine input tax credit disputes, and established an annual-only rate review cycle beginning April 1, 2027.
The Ministry of External Affairs has strongly condemned a projectile attack on the Panama-flagged commercial vessel MT On Peace near the Strait of Hormuz, which left 11 Indian seafarers injured. Following a rapid emergency evacuation by Omani authorities to medical facilities in Khasab, New Delhi warned that persistent assaults on commercial shipping pose a severe threat to international sea lines of communication and called for an immediate end to maritime hostilities.
Former Supreme Court judge Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman has warned that Indian democracy is in “great peril” due to the malfunctioning of the Election Commission and large-scale illegal voter deletions under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). Speaking in Rajkot, Justice Nariman highlighted that 93% of decided appeals in West Bengal overturned voter deletions, urging the apex court to intervene immediately and reform the executive-led appointment process for election commissioners.
Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke launched a sharp attack against the Election Commission in Pune, alleging that the BJP’s recent electoral gains outside traditional strongholds stem from institutional manipulation under CEC Gyanesh Kumar rather than popular mandates. Backing protesting MPSC students over examination leaks, Dipke called for the resignation of both the CEC and the MPSC chairman, even as the ECI dismissed reports of internal dissent over the ongoing SIR exercise.
India recorded 3,832 new child leprosy cases in 2025–26, exceeding the National Leprosy Eradication Programme’s target of 2,000 cases by over 91 percent. With 37 children already presenting with Grade-2 disabilities at diagnosis, public health experts have flagged persistent community transmission and delayed diagnosis as critical challenges facing the country’s roadmap to interrupt disease transmission at the district level by 2027.
Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya in Barrackpore commemorated the 157th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi with the 27th Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Oration, delivered by noted cultural commentator Prof. Samik Bandyopadhyay. Presided over by Managing Committee President Dr. Shankarkumar Sanyal, the commemorative assembly featured the release of the expanded historical volume ‘Gandhi Parikrama’ and philanthropic contributions supporting the museum’s vocational self-reliance initiatives.
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