05 June 2026
Sasikala is back in Tamil Nadu and its politics as the state is going to witness assembly elections a couple of months down the line. She was serving a jail term in Bengaluru and got out of prison in January but stayed in the city as she contracted Covid-19.
Sasikala returned to Tamil Nadu on Monday to a grand reception by supporters and a nervy reaction from the ruling AIADMK, a party she controlled as former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's aide.
The home ministry has made a case for issuing ‘rejection slips’ to the delisted people from the controversial National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam in a bizarre twist to the controversial exercise completed two years ago.
The home ministry has approached the Supreme Court seeking permission for the issue of rejection slips by the NRC Secretariat which is a mandatory step before the people excluded from the register can approach the Foreigners Tribunals. The slips would spell out the reason for the exclusion from the register that was published on 31 August, 2019.
In reply to an RTI query, the Registrar General of India has said ‘yes’ to the development after the application was transferred by the ministry to the department. RGI is under the administrative control of the home ministry. The same application had another query on whether the ministry had written to RGI for issuing the notification on NRC to which the former replied saying “no.”
Sacked school teachers in Tripura on Monday moved the high court after the police denied them permission to hold a sit-in demonstration.
Over 8,000 school teachers have been protesting against their termination since December 7, 2020. After the police forced them to stop their protest, the teachers sought permission to hold a sit-in for the second time. But they were denied.
“A writ petition has been filed in the high court against the police for violating the teachers’ right to protest,” said Purushottam Roy Barman, the counsel who filed the petition on behalf of the teachers.
An important news has been revealed by authorities that can prove very bad for vehicle owners. This Uttar Pradesh Traffic Challan update says that if drivers break rules, even the smallest ones, a heavy penalty will be imposed. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath led Uttar Pradesh government has brought in effect new traffic fines in the state for traffic rules violations. According to the report, spitting after tobacco consumption, not wearing a seat belt while driving or drunk driving will attract big fine in Uttar Pradesh from now.
People will have to pay Rs 500 for spitting tobacco on road. It is to be noted that spitting tobacco on roads in some of the big cities can get you a challan of upto Rs 1,000, Zee Media Bureau reported.
Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) on Sunday requested the National Monuments Authority (Ministry of Culture) to withdraw the draft notification on heritage byelaws meant for Shree Jagannath Temple in Puri.
In his letter to the NMA Member Secretary, SJTA chief administrator Krishan Kumar urged him to withdraw the notification immediately "to protect the interest of the Lords, sevayaks and devotees at large."
"Shree Jagannath is the Aradhya Devata of Odias and millions of Hindus across India and the world. He is worshipped as Brahmadaru at his Mula Pitha at Puri. The divinity and worship of Shree Jagannath as the Lord of Universe is as timeless and as infinite as the cosmos itself. It is in this background of faith, religion and spirituality for millions of Hindus that any intervention by the authorities is to be looked at," SJTA chief administrator Krishan Kumar said in a letter to the NMA Member Secretary.
