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The developments following the horrific terrorist attack in Pahalgam (Jammu & Kashmir), which claimed the lives of 26 civilians including tourists, have brought to fore a number of pressing concerns: national security, civil liberties, democratic accountability, regional peace and imperialist overreach. In the aftermath of the attack, Indian armed forces launched a targeted counter-offensive named Operation Sindoor, striking terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

The Supreme Court of India has deferred pleas against Waqf (Amendment) Act till May 20. Chief Justice of India BR Gavai did not waste time arguing. He said the top court will not permit anybody to challenge to the 1995 Waqf Act, “Lets argue the petitions challenging the 2025 amendments," he said in a massive jolt to the Hindu quarter, which was in high spirits after the resounding victory over Muslim Pakistan in ‘Operation Sindoor’.

The number of deaths due to COVID-19 in India during the peak of COVID as reported by the Government of India were 3.3 lakh. As per the worldometers website the number of death due to COVID till 12 May 2025 is 533570. According to this information India stands at no.3 after USA with 1219487 deaths and Brazil 711380 deaths.

After years of criticism, PM Narendra Modi led Government has finally released its first ever monthly Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) on May 15, 2025 for the month of April 2025, as per the revamped PLFS. Though it saved the government from the allegation of not producing timely data on labour, its data on the revamped PLFS still do not show the real picture of unemployment in India, as it exists on the ground. The difference can be seen in the fact that revamped PLFS shows unemployment rate at 5.1 per cent in April 2025(a rise from 4.9 per cent in 2024 under Old PLFS), while the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) data found it at 7.73 per cent. Why such a great difference? And which data is more reliable?

On June 3, 2024, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) announced the demolition of Jai Bhim Nagar. Subsequently, on June 6, 2024, BMC officials, joined by bulldozers and numerous police personnel, commenced the demolition process, displacing approximately 600 families who had resided in the area for nearly thirty years. The affected residents approached the Bombay High Court, requesting compensation and prosecution of concerned officials. Unfortunately, no substantial relief has been granted yet and these individuals continue to suffer hardship in meeting even their basic needs and rights. The demolition has forced many residents to take refuge on the streets, depriving them of their right to a dignified life, shelter, and adequate health care, resulting in the violation of Article 21 of the Constitution.

People on both sides of the border were relieved. The four-day-long military engagement between India and Pakistan came to a close on the late afternoon of May 10. Despite this, gunshots were heard late in the night. But later, the DGMOs of both countries confirmed that the ceasefire has held and war clouds have receded for now.

Prime Minister Modi’s rightwing Hindu nationalist party, guided by its moral compass, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, has limited time to wrest Pakistan Occupied Kashmir from Pakistan, only a billion years! A supercomputer simulation by researchers at Japan’s Tohoku University came to the conclusion that life on earth will last for only a billion more years! Is that time enough for the RSS/BJP to snatch PoK from Pakistan?

The Supreme Court Bench comprising of Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Mahadevan had earlier turned down the request of the Government of India to send the case relating to assent to bills by governors and president to a larger Constitution Bench on the ground that it involved ‘substantial questions of law’. Nevertheless, the Bench went ahead and announced its final verdict imposing deadline on governors and president on assent on bills.

The new Covid death data, released recently by the government, reveals everything that confirms what was feared at the time of the pandemic – a massive mismanagement on the part of the government. The new data from the Civil Registration System (CRS), published on May 7, show that about 21 lakh more deaths were registered in 2021, the year of the deadly Delta wave of Covid-19, compared to 2020. This number is about six times the official Covid 2019 death figure. In 2021, the data given by the union government was 3.32 lakh.

Sweet and short: that aptly describes Chief Justice Sanjeev Khanna’s stewardship of the Supreme Court. In a time when judicial personalities often become larger than the institution, Justice Khanna offered a quiet, yet powerful contrast. His tenure followed that of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, and together, the two presented an almost poetic inversion. While Chandrachud assumed office with an imposing reputation, he departed with much of it questioned; Khanna, on the other hand, began with modest public recognition but left behind a reputation both dignified and deeply respected. Chandrachud made his presence felt in speeches and interviews, his thoughts often aired in public forums beyond the courtroom, whereas Justice Khanna let his verdicts speak—and they did, resoundingly. Where one chased headlines, the other created them through the sheer weight of judicial reasoning, not personality.