The Quint

During the 2026 Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Uttarakhand, districts with higher proportions of Muslim residents experienced greater intensity of voter deletions. Analysis across all 70 Assembly constituencies identified over 800,000 affected electors, with the number of deletions in 45 constituencies exceeding the victory margins from the 2022 Assemb...

Police in Latur district, Maharashtra, have registered a First Information Report (FIR) against Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke and others for allegedly entering a government school without permission, disrupting official work, and threatening teachers. The FIR was filed at Ausa police station following a complaint by Sayyed Shamshadbano Khairatali, a teach...

A sea of red and saffron flags flanked either side of the metal spires of Gate No. 4 of Jadavpur University on Thursday, 20 August, hours after the campus came under attack from a violent mob of arsonists and vandals the night before.

Those carrying the saffron f...

The Jharkhand High Court has issued an interim stay on the state government’s decision to cancel the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission-Combined Graduate Level (JSSC-CGL) examination and the appointments made through it. The court’s order, delivered on 21 August 2026, also covers the cancellation of the Child Development Project Officer (CDPO) examination. The stay comes af...

On 21 August 2026, Rashtrapati Bhavan issued and then withdrew an official statement regarding the upcoming visit of Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman to New Delhi. The initial press release, published around 2pm, announced the cancellation of the Change of Guard ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan scheduled for 22 August 2026, citing rehearsals for the ceremonial welcome o...