Nishtha Anushree

For four days beginning 20 June, half a dozen Nihang Sikhs armed with spears and swords held the roof of the Nagrasu Gurdwara in Rudraprayag on the Badrinath highway in Uttarakhand.

The high-profile loss of Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh (UP) assembly election in his hometown, Sirathu, was just the visible edge of the larger shift under way.

When Uttar Pradesh's IT minister Sunil Sharma unveiled the Data Centre Policy 2026 on 6 July, he singled out one feature for the cameras. "In addition, extra incentives have been proposed for the Bundelkhand and Purvanchal regions," he told reporters after the cabinet cleared it. The two regions would get a land subsidy worth 50 per cent of prevailing sector rates, double the 25 per cent on offer everywhere else in the state.

In April, when the India Meteorological Department's first forecast for the monsoon season came in at 92 per cent of the long-period average, the mood in the press turned grim almost immediately. Editorials ran under headlines like

Inside the donation-counting room at the Badrinath temple, CCTV cameras recorded a temple official walking between the counting room and his office tw

The Maharashtra government has removed more than 92 lakh beneficiaries from the Ladki Bahin Yojana after finding them ineligible due to incomplete eKYC (electronic Know Your Customer) or failure to meet the scheme criteria.

On World Environment Day, 5 June, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav announced the "return" of the caracal to the Kuno landscape.

This grade is found in only a few places. Over two-thirds of the country's steel-grade limestone comes from just two: Katni in Madhya Pradesh and Jaisalmer in Rajasthan.

The highest number of MLAs in Uttar Pradesh from one community are from the Brahmin: 52. Of them, 46 are from the BJP-led NDA. That means that of the 273 NDA MLAs, almost 17 per cent are Brahmins, more than 1.5 times their estimated population share in the state.

There is a widely circulated image of Rahul Gandhi tearing up a piece of paper. For a long period of time, it was believed that Gandhi had ripped up a 2013 ordinance cleared by the Manmohan Singh cabinet that would have shielded convicted lawmakers from immediate disqualification.