Leela Sahu(22) from Sidhi in Madhya Pradesh says she has no interest in politics. Yet she found herself in the crosshairs of the local BJP leadership when lack of basic infrastructure like a bad road appeared in her posts.
Raising the instances of targeting of migrant workers from West Bengal in the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday (July 16, 2025) hit the streets in Kolkata and said protests would rage across the country if Bengalis continued to be harassed.
A law is soon to be implemented amid the rising beef smuggling case in Maharashtra. The Maharashtra government will soon bring a law to curb this beef smuggling cases. Minister of State, Home (Rural) Pankaj Bhoyar said, the repeat offender will be slapped with the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday (July 15, 2025) said that the central government does not offer flood and disaster relief funds for her State but offers help to Assam in times of need.
Union Minister Amit Shah to lead talks with the state ministers and the central ministers on the long pending issues on Goods and Services Tax (GST) reforms
President Droupadi Murmu on Monday appointed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Jammu and Kashmir deputy chief minister Kavinder Gupta as the lieutenant governor of Ladakh, besides naming Prof Ashim Kumar Ghosh and Pusapati Ashok Gajapathi Raju as the new Governors of Haryana and Goa, respectively.
Kolkata had to see another ‘rape’ case after the case of Calcutta Law College, where a woman, studying at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta alleged that she had been raped inside the hostel at the campus premises.
The Maharashtra Assembly has passed the Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill, 2024, aimed at tackling the rise of “urban Naxalism” or extreme left-wing ideology. The bill allows the state government to label certain organisations as illegal, and take action that could lead to 2–7 years of jail and fines up to ₹5 lakh.
The President has nominated former diplomat Harsh Shringla, Special Public Prosecutor in Ajmal Kasab case Ujjwal Nikam, historian Meenakshi Jain, and Kerala teacher C. Sadanandan Master to the Rajya Sabha, marking an entry of two high-profile people to the Upper House.
