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KOLKATA: The goal of the national leadership of BJP to attain majority in Rajya Sabha to enable it to pass Bills is eroding its credibility in West Bengal at a time when the first saffron state government is firmly in the saddle. Things have gone from bad to worse after some senior BJP leaders accused their party to be not unlike from Trinamool Congress flinging charges of extortion at it.

Cockroach Janata Party movement was reported in a section of media as one of the reasons for abrupt removal of Delhi Police Commissioner Satish Golcha on Friday July 17, 2026, who was replaced by Anurag Kumar. A day after, in the early hours of Saturday July 18, 2026, Delhi Police removed the activist on hunger strike for 21 days by force from the protest site and shifted him to Safdarjung Hospital, purportedly on the Delhi High Court Order to save his life. Government claimed this operation “smooth” but Delhi Police admitted in its statement that “slight commotion ensued” and said “we request the protestors at Jantar Mantar to peacefully vacate the place at the earliest.”

India's digital commerce industry has reached an inflection point. What began barely two decades ago with a handful of online bookstores and travel portals has today grown into a multi-layered ecosystem worth hundreds of billions of dollars, touching almost every aspect of daily life—from shopping and food delivery to mobility, financial services, healthcare, logistics, tourism and artificial intelligence.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no denying it. The opposition to the Chief Minister V D Satheesan’s style of functioning is gathering momentum within the Congress itself.

KOLKATA: Fencing of the India-Myanmar border in trouble-torn Manipur remains a tough job for the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) as the task is not merely of demarcating the boundaries but also of thwarting the recurring challenges that the Indian security agencies face from insurgent movement, drug trafficking and illegal migration.

Youth unemployment rate in the age group of 15-29 years in India has been on the rise since April 2025, when the Union Government had started rolling out new revamped Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data. In June 2026, youth unemployment rate touched a record high in Current Weekly Status (CWS) and reached 16.2 per cent, led by youth female unemployment rate climbing to 20.7 per cent, while youth male unemployment rate stood at 14.6 per cent. In April 2025, youth unemployment rate was 13.8 per cent, 13.6 per cent for youth male and 14.4 per cent for youth female. Since the new series had warned that its data was not comparable with older series, the same is not being done here.

Maharashtra politics has once again been thrown into a whirlpool of speculation after an unusual late-night meeting between Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and NCP state president Sunil Tatkare triggered fresh questions about shifting political equations. What transformed an otherwise routine political interaction into a major talking point was the reported presence of NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) leader Jayant Patil, prompting murmurs of a possible thaw between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Sharad Pawar's camp.

The monsoon session of the parliament beginning next week from July 21 is going to be politically very significant on account of delimitation and women reservation bills, passage of which can alter the political map of the country. Union Minister Ramdas Athawale has said with confidence that the bills will be passed during the upcoming session, while cracks have developed within INDIA bloc in meeting the challenge to block them, as they had successful done in the Budget Session of the Parliament on April 17.

KOLKATA: A tug-of-war between Trinamool Congress and Congress to observe July 21 as Martyr's Day is an annual event in the political calendar of West Bengal. But what used to be an unequal contest between two political outfits has been joined by another political entity this year.

The fast of the activist educationist Sonam Wangchuk has completed more than two weeks. Without accountability and sensitivity of the government, his life faces a serious risk. There is growing support and solidarity from various student groups and the broad democratic and secular sections of the society. The fast has achieved the objective of bringing to focus, the dire state of Indian education. Resignation of the Education Minister is naturally the focal demand. But it encompasses the whole range of critical concerns that Indian education has come to suffer from.