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Marthanda Varma promoted a policy of strengthening his kingdom and expanding its borders. This angered the Dutch and led to the conflict.

SEBI's new Closing Auction Session has fundamentally changed how India's markets close, triggering sharp volatility, confusing traders and causing unusual divergences between the Sensex and Nifty.

The case against SDPI leader Mohammed Riyaz Farangipete stems from a speech he delivered on 23rd July 2015 at a PFI protest meet near the Belthangady Taluk Office.

Jawad Siddiqui suffers a major setback in the 415 crore PMLA case as Saket Court rejects both pleas, including his demand for unrelied documents. Read what court said.

Metas admission that it accepts payment to amplify specific content, while hiding behind 'technical glitches' to censor other posts, exposes a deliberate strategy of manipulating content and effecting social behavior.

Senior commanders received headlines, but constables, drivers, ASIs and Special Police Officers often survived only in FIRs and memorial pages, even as repeated assassinations, ambushes and family killings hardened the forces response irreversibly throughout Punjab.

Professor Annapurni Subramaniam has become the first Indian woman scientist to receive the prestigious COSPAR Vikram Sarabhai Medal for her pioneering contributions to space research.

While Indian shipyards did construct some merchant tonnage under license regimes and subsidy schemes, the emphasis stayed on building capacity fot Navy and Coast Guard, not for the commercial global market. The long term result was that Indian commercial shipbuilding never developed the scale, supply-chain depth or export orientation that enabled East Asian yards to capture the worlds merchant fleet.

Riley Moore, however, has surpassed even the Indian left liberals in fear-mongering and victimhood propaganda. His claim that the FCRA Amendment Bill will empower the Indian government to arbitrarily take over churches is false. The authorities cannot take over or alter the religious character of places of worship.

Targeting Hindu beliefs to spread discontent against the majority population has been a core part of Nivedita strategic rhetoric.

SGPC, SAD, AAP, BJP, Congress and Panthic groups have adopted competing positions, using remission demands, Sikh sentiment, security concerns and protest politics to strengthen their influence across Punjabs increasingly fragmented political landscape ahead of elections.

In response to the social media outrage, the NHAI published an X post on 3rd August 2026 and claimed that the viral visuals of the rumble strips on NH-25 in Rajasthan do not depict the actual condition. It shared a comparison picture, captioned: As shown on social media vs actual image of the section.

The Bankipura by-election saw Muslim voters and several other communities rally behind Prashant Kishor over the RJD, signalling a major political realignment driven by the desire to defeat the BJP.

DMK leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin made a double-meaning remark against actress Trisha Krishnan while criticising CM C. Joseph Vijay.

DMK leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin made a double-meaning remark against actress Trisha Krishnan while criticising CM C. Joseph Vijay.

Shipbuilding is not a single skill or industry. It is a vast, interlocking ecosystem of technologies, industries, and human expertise that has repeatedly determined which nations rise to become global powers.

After blaming igged polls and invisible powers for Jan Suraaj's humiliating Assembly defeat, Prashant Kishor's Bankipur victory suggests elections are won through issues, organisation and groundwork, not post-result excuses

While Abhinav Pandey did talk about the Jharkhand student protest, there was a marked change in intensity. There were no campaigns seeking resignation or pressure on the Hemant Soren government to remove its Education Minister. The overall coverage and the 'call for accountability' was borderline non-existent.

In a fresh demonstration of the Hindu hatred Pakistan harbours, Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, DG ISPR, invoked a Quranic verse to delegitimise the Afghan Talibans Islamic credentials over the India-Afghan shared DNA remark by a Taliban minister, and growing friendship between Kafir India and Islamic Afghanistan.

On August 3, 2026, a Delhi court acquitted former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and ex-BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, along with former WFI assistant secretary Vinod Tomar, in the sexual harassment case filed by six women wrestlers.

India concluded its campaign in the Commonwealth Games 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland, with many stellar performances and an impressive tally of medals. India's performance in various games, including athletics, boxing, para sports, and judo, bore testimony to India's slow but steady growth in various sports.

RP Singh and Jaiveer Shergill raised the families plight in April after elderly couples were denied boarding, while the embassy maintained round-the-clock contact and helped facilitate onward travel through regional evacuation routes back to India.

From serving in Britain's elite Special Boat Service to redefining the limits of high-altitude climbing with his record-breaking Project Possible expedition, Nirmal 'Nimsdai' Purja became one of the most influential mountaineers of his generation before his life was cut short in a tragic Broad Peak avalanche.

The case decision relates to an unauthorised pledge of ZEEL's immovable assets located in Hyderabad to secure loans for promoter-linked entities.

The removal of the Hindu Kingdom status stripped away a protective shield for the country's majority culture. When communist ideology dismantled thetraditional guardrail, it gave away to the Muslim street veto.

Farooq Abdullah's remarks linking terror attacks to the demand for J&K statehood overlook nearly four decades of Pakistan-sponsored terrorism that flourished under Article 370, from the ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Hindus to major attacks like Uri and Pulwama, raising questions over whether constitutional decisions should ever be influenced by violence.

The protesting students have been demanding accountability, transparent recruitment, and major education reforms.

According to French media reports, investigators believe Chuet made at least two undeclared trips to China in September 2018 and August 2019 while he was still serving in the French Navy.

On 31st July, Independent MP Pappu Yadav cosplayed a greedy Brahmin priest andstaged a nukkad Natak-style skit in the Parliament complex, enacting the Ayodhya Ram Mandir donation theft.

Constitution insulates the Court from being leaned on by whoever holds power or public pressure at a given moment, a government, an opposition party, or a movement outside the electoral system altogether.

Nepali Prime Minister Balen Shah appealed to people to maintain unity and social harmony and show restraint.

I spoke out to warn of the extreme gravity of the migration crisis we are enduring, a senior Ceuta official stated.

What Aishe Ghosh has been doing in her criminal trial is a classic leftist tactic for delaying court proceedings.

The Indian [currency] rupee is not overvalued and could even be considered undervalued in both nominal and real effective exchange rate terms, the RBI Governor said.

That old framework may have made sense then. But this government is now defending a 2026 India against drone incursions, coordinated sabotage, and mixed cyber-physical attacks that Parliament in 2008 could not have fully imagined.

Rahul Gandhi's claim that Amit Shah ordered pellet firing on students during the July 20 Parliament march is contradicted by India's policing hierarchy and the ongoing inquiry, which points to field-level operational decisions, not directions from the Union Home Minister.

Criminal jurisprudence treats an offence as a wrong against the entire society and not just against an individual.

The Karnataka High Court also observed that the timing of the complaint filing against the petitioner indicated thatthe Bengaluru Police registered what seemed to be a counter-case after Dr Nagendra informed the authorities about Bangladeshi illegal immigrants.

The first phase of assembly elections in PoJK turned violent as Pakistani forces opened fire on protesters, leaving at least 19 dead. The clashes follow months of anger over reserved refugee seats, election rigging, and a government ban on local rights group JAAC.

Newslaundry's attempt to portray a lawfully seized accident vehicle as evidence of a Delhi Police conspiracy collapses under its own reporting, exposing a narrative built on insinuation rather than facts.

Despite the village having a separate Muslim cemetery with sufficient space, the deceased Muslim man was buried on 27 gunthas of land adjacent to the Hindu crematorium.

The near-blanket withdrawal of FIRs against violent CJP protestors, and written assurances, may indicate to critics and the Opposition that the Modi government is on the backfoot. However, it is worth remembering that law and order and the burden of maintaining peace also lie on the government in office.

Along with the renaming of the medical institution, the Chief Minister has approved a 13 crore grant from the Chief Ministers Special Assistance (CMSA) fund.

Social media user Yashaswinee Raje Singh took to X to allege that she was sexually assaulted during the CJP's Jantar Mantar protest and that volunteers dismissed her complaint instead of coming to her aid.

The proposed legislation seeks to strengthen the provisions of the existing Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024, which was enacted to curb unfair means in public examinations and protect the integrity of recruitment and entrance tests.

The killings crossed religious lines, as Sikh and Hindu journalists alike were targeted for opposing Khalistan, defending communal harmony or refusing to surrender editorial judgement and broadcasting language to armed terrorist organisations during the insurgency.

While Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla repeatedly stressed that the government is set to introduce the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, popularly referred to as the Anti-paper leak bill, and debate is to be on in Parliament, the opposition MPs continued sloganeering, screeching and causing unwarranted disruption.

Vivek Tankha said that he urged Sonam Wangchuk to end the fast due to concerns of his health, and he was not acting on behalf of the central govt, as the article implies.

Arfa Khanum Sherwani of the leftist propaganda website The Wire, posted a cryptic tweet on X on Saturday, July 25, writing: Dharmendra Pradhan is just the trailer..., suggesting that the resignation was only the beginning and hinting at demands for further chaos in the country.

Modis political durability rests on calculated concessions and tactical flexibility. He absorbs protests, manages unstable allies and retreats on methods without surrendering the authority or objectives that keep him at the centre of power nationally.