Andy Burnham took another significant step on Monday (July 13, 2026) towards becoming Britain’s next prime minister, netting additional Labour MPs’ nominations to give him an unassailable lead in the ruling party’s leadership contest. The veteran politician is the only Labour Member of Parliament to publicly declare themselves a candidate to replace outgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

The Supreme Court on Monday (July 13, 2026) held that the determination of citizenship and foreigner status must be undertaken through a “fair, lawful and reasoned” process, as it set aside a batch of 27 Gauhati High Court judgments declaring the appellants to be foreigners and remanded the cases to the Foreigners Tribunals concerned for fresh adjudication.

At the first-ever conference of police chiefs from districts sharing borders with neighbouring countries, the States flagged several key concerns, including the presence of illegal migrants on electoral rolls despite the special revision of voter lists in Assam, the alleged misuse of the Nepal border by radical elements to reach Punjab, and the use of applications such as WhatsApp, Skred, and Zangi for arms and narcotics smuggling across the Pakistan border, a senior government official told The Hindu.

As Naga groups continue to block the supply of essentials to Kuki-Zo areas in Manipur’s Kangpokpi, the Kuki-Zo Council (KZC), an apex body of the tribes, met Director of Intelligence Bureau (IB) Mahesh Dixit and senior officials of the Union Home Ministry on Monday (July 13, 2026) seeking the Centre’s intervention to the crisis and expedition of political solution.

The Indian government’s decision to import more oil from Russia is part of a longer strategy it deployed following the start of the West Asia crisis and was part of a broader strategy to diversify sources of oil, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural gas has said in response to an editorial by The Hindu on the matter.

Republican group unfurls Andrew-Epstein banner in Buckingham Palace

A group of anti-monarchy activists unfurled a banner depicting the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and former Duke of York, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, younger brother of Britain’s monarch King Charles III, in the Throne Room of Buckingham Palace on Monday (July 13, 2026). Photos released by the group, Republic, showed two individuals holding up a banner of Mountbatten-Windsor walking with Epstein and another banner in front of it with the words, “What did you know?” written across it. The Palace was aware of the incident.

Over the weekend, a strong north-easterly breeze brought some much-needed respite to many parts of the United Kingdom reeling under an intense heatwave. On Tuesday (July 14) at Edgbaston, the Indian cricket team will be hoping for the winds of change to blow in its direction too when it takes on England in the first of three ODIs.

While third language (R3) will not be part of the board exam for students who enter Class 10 from 2027-28, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has stated in its latest circular that students “must clear the school-based R3 assessment” in Class 10 to be awarded the Secondary School Examination Pass Certificate. This means that if students do not clear the internal assessment in their crucial board year, schools will be required to reassess unsuccessful students before the final results are declared, the circular dated July 10 stated. 

The hunger strike at Jantar Mantar demanding Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation was in its 16th day, with a student from the All India Students’ Association (AISA) being hospitalised for hypovolemic shock, the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation-affiliated student body said in a statement. Activist Sonam Wangchuk, who has been fasting on the dais, lost 8.25 kg, the Cockroach Janta Party said.

Autonomous hill councils to be extended to all seven districts in Ladakh

The Ladakh administration on Monday (July 13, 2026) announced 17 new tehsils “to strengthen grassroots governance” in the Union Territory and said the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) Act will be extended to all seven districts of the region. Earlier, Ladakh had only two districts of Leh and Kargil. However, five new districts of Sham, Nubra, Changthang, Zanskar and Drass were notified in April this year. With 17 additional tehsils, Ladakh has a total of 32 tehsils now.

One Indian ‌crew member was killed, and eight others were wounded when two Emirati ​oil tankers were struck by Iranian cruise missiles in the Strait ⁠of Hormuz, the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday (July 14, 2026), in the latest escalation in the strategic waterway. The ministry said the tankers, the Mombasa and Al Bahiyah, were targeted in ‌the southern lane of the strait while in Omani territorial waters. The dead crew member was aboard the Mombasa, it said.

Published - July 14, 2026 06:29 am IST