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On June 19, 2026, a Division Bench in the Supreme Court passed a significant order in Sarita Tyagi v. Union of India, where it noted as follows:

BHOPAL: The recent proposal to rename Bhopal's Barkatullah University as Vagdevi Bhojpal University has triggered an intense debate across Madhya Pradesh. The proposal, approved by the University's Executive Council, drew strong opposition not only in Bhopal but also in several other parts of the state. Teachers, students, historians, civil society organisations and political parties argued that changing the name would undermine the legacy of a distinguished freedom fighter and educationist.

The U.S.-China high tech battle for supremacy has reached a new peak after the China manufactured Supercomputer LineShine was adjudged the best among the Top 500 supercomputers made by various nations including the USA, at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany held on June 23.China got this top slot recognition after 2017- a gap of nine years.

The joint memorandum to the Chief Justice of India, Justice Surya Kant, by the twenty-three opposition parties is virtually of the nature of mercy entreaty which “appeals to the conscience of the judiciary. The judiciary has to see what is happening in the country today. When everything else fails, who do we turn to?" It is indeed a sad commentary on the functioning of the Indian judicial system when the parties or the individual have to appeal to the conscience of judiciary for seeking justice, which of otherwise has been their fundamental rights under the provisions of the Indian Constitution.

American politics is full of irony. A real estate agent's son becomes a president after wasting all the billions his father earned in New Jersey and knocks at the doors of the elite in New York for admission without an answer that angers and frustrates him.

The true measure of a democracy is rarely found in the grandeur of its elections or the eloquence of its constitution. It is found instead in the silence of its prison cells, the transparency of its police stations and the restraint exercised by those empowered to deprive citizens of their liberty. Every constitutional democracy confers extraordinary powers upon the state—the authority to arrest, detain and prosecute—but those powers derive their legitimacy from one indispensable condition: that the state itself remains bound by law. The moment a detainee dies without trial, without judicial determination of guilt and while entirely under state custody, the state ceases to function merely as an investigator and begins to resemble judge, jury and executioner.

Keir Starmer announced his resignation as Labour leader on 22 June 2026 after a mutiny within his own party, but before leaving Downing Street he unveiled a near-£300 billion, drone-heavy defence plan - a move critics call his final, and most contested, act as prime minister.

Despite the best efforts of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh (UP), a major scandal has exploded on the face of the Hindutva brigade. The biggest political project of the Sangh, which was like a blank cheque for encashment of electoral dividends by the BJP for the last two and a half decades, has ultimately turned out to be their biggest embarrassment.

People often do not find the profession they are suited to. But when eminent theatre director, Ebrahim Alkazi spotted a young girl essaying the role of Desdemona in a stage adaptation of Othello, he asked the upcoming actress to join his drama group, Theatre Group. From this moment Vijaya Jaywant's life and career moved away far from square pegs finding themselves into round holes.

WASHINGTON DC: From the governorship race down to the Secretary of State’s contest, progressive candidates—including current Democratic Socialists of America member Melat Kiros for Congress in Denver and former DSA member Manny Rutinel in a swing district north of Denver—won. Melat Kiros made a name for herself when she was fired in 2023 from Sydney Austin Law Firm for backing Palestinian rights.