The Reportline

“No adverse legal action — punitive or retaliatory — shall be taken by the government against any individual participating in the protests before 6 PM on July 26, across the entire state,” the state home department said. It added that all people arrested or detained in cases registered before that date would be released immediately, according to special secretary Kshtranil Singh.

: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi amid intensifying nationwide protests over irregularities and a paper leak in the NEET-UG 2026 examination. Pradhan announced the decision in a two-page statement posted on X, addressing “young friends.” He said he had dedicated more than four decades to students, teachers, and education reform and deeply respected the aspirations of India’s youth.

New Delhi, July 21, 2026 — India on Monday condemned a missile attack on a civilian cargo ship near the Ukrainian port of Odessa that killed four Indian seafarers and left one critically injured, marking the first deaths of Indian nationals among crew members in the Russia-Ukraine war that began in February 2022. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) identified the vessel as MV Golden Leo, which was departing from Odessa when it was struck on the evening of July 19, 2026.

New Delhi, July 21, 2026: Supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), led by founder Abhijeet Dipke, reclaimed the dismantled protest site at Jantar Mantar in central Delhi late on Monday night, hours after a major crackdown involving tear gas and lathi-charges left several protesters injured and detained.

New Delhi, July 19, 2026: The Delhi High Court on Saturday declined interim relief to Gitanjali Angmo, wife of activist Sonam Wangchuk, seeking his transfer from Safdarjung Hospital to a private facility of her choice. The court accepted the Centre’s submission that the activist’s shift to the government hospital was a medical decision necessitated by his deteriorating condition after nearly three weeks of hunger strike.

Mumbai - A rare and deeply moving act of humanity took place in, where a Muslim woman stepped forward to perform the last rites of a Hindu former RSS worker after his own family reportedly refused to claim his body. Narayanan, a 64-year-old former RSS worker, died of cancer. According to the information shown in the post, his family abandoned him because of his violent past.

Quang Nam Province, Vietnam — At least 15 Indian tourists were killed and several others remain missing after a passenger boat carrying 32 Indian tourists and four crew members capsized near an island off Vietnam, local authorities said on Saturday. The incident occurred during a sightseeing trip in the waters near one of the islands in central Vietnam’s coastal region.

Chandigarh: In the villages of Punjab, the film Satluj — starring Diljit Dosanjh and based on the life of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra — is experiencing a remarkable second life through community-driven screenings, weeks after it was abruptly removed from the OTT platform ZEE5. As reported by independent news source, screenings are being organised across numerous districts including Moga, Sangrur, Patiala, Hoshiarpur, Rajpura, Gurdaspur, Barnala, Bathinda, Amritsar, and Ludhiana.

New Delhi, July 9, 2026: The Uttar Pradesh Education Service Selection Commission (UPESSC) on Wednesday released the provisional answer key for the Uttar Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test (UPTET) 2026. The keys have been made available for both Paper 1 (intended for Primary Level teachers, Classes 1-5) and Paper 2 (for Upper Primary Level teachers, Classes 6-8). Aspiring teachers who took the examination can now access the answer keys on the official website and cross-check their responses.

Tehran vows wider retaliation as explosions reported in Bahrain and oil prices surge amid escalating West Asia conflict Tehran -  Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said on Thursday they had launched missile and drone attacks on key U.S. military installations in Kuwait and Bahrain in direct response to fresh American strikes on Iranian territory.