CJP Protest in Delhi LIVE: Cockroach Janata Party on Monday removed Vijeta Dahiya from the post of spokesperson, after a viral video purportedly showed him eating at a fast-food outlet. CJP found Dahiya's action to be "unacceptable" and inconsistent with the values and principles of the movement.
A ₹2,600 crore tunnel under the Himalayas. Five accelerated hydropower projects. A treaty placed in abeyance. Pakistan threatening war. India's Chenab push is the most consequential shift in South Asian water politics in six decades — and the infrastructure is already under construction
BY Pranay Vatsa 21 July 2026
In December 2025, Punjab's Assembly unanimously passed a resolution calling VB-G RAM-G an attack on Dalits and rural workers. On June 26, 2026, a gazette notification quietly implemented it. Here is what changed — and what didn't
BY Pranay Vatsa 20 July 2026
Police permission is generally required because most demonstrations take place in public spaces where authorities are responsible for maintaining law and order
BY Pranay Vatsa 20 July 2026
Home Minister Amit Shah introduced the Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Bill, 2026 in the Rajya Sabha on July 20, the first day of the Monsoon Session. It proposes to extend the same statutory protections currently given to the National Anthem to Vande Mataram. Here is what changes, what doesn't, and what questions it raises
BY Pranay Vatsa 20 July 2026
On July 18, 2026, a rocket built by two former ISRO scientists and a team of engineers from Hyderabad successfully placed payloads into a 450 km orbit — making India the third country in the world where a private company has reached orbit. Here is everything you need to know
BY Pranay Vatsa 19 July 2026
On July 21, 2026, Kolkata will host three separate Martyrs' Day rallies — Mamata's TMC at the Birla Planetarium, a rebel TMC faction at Mayo Road, and Congress at Shahid Minar. A commemoration that for three decades belonged to one woman now belongs to whoever can fill the most people into a street.
BY Pranay Vatsa 19 July 2026
The SIR exercise has used four deletion categories in previous phases — dead, shifted, absent, duplicate. Phase III has introduced a fifth: 'other reasons.' Over 84,000 voters have been removed under it with no further explanation. Here is what we know, and what we don't.
BY Pranay Vatsa 19 July 2026
- One Marriage, One Law? Why Mohan Yadav's UCC Pitch Could Redefine Madhya Pradesh's Civil Code Debate
MP's UCC Bill comes before the Assembly on July 20. Its monogamy provision — and the CM's assertion that those with multiple marriages will lose the right to reside in MP — is the most constitutionally charged element of any state UCC yet.
BY Pranay Vatsa 18 July 2026
As Sonam Wangchuk's hunger strike enters its 20th day and Sonia Gandhi invokes a 42-year-old meeting between Indira Gandhi and Wangchuk's father, Congress is reaching into its own archive to distinguish itself from a BJP government that has, critics say, chosen silence over engagement.
BY Pranay Vatsa 17 July 2026
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