Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, accompanied by party chief Mallikarjun Kharge, protested outside the Prime Minister’s Lok Kalyan Marg residence on Tuesday (July 21, 2026), demanding the resignation of PM Narendra Modi over the police action against students protesting on the NEET paper leak issue. Thousands of people have also regrouped at the protest site in Jantar Mantar. Despite the rain, there are crowds outside the entry points. Former Delhi Minister Gopal Rai and other AAP leaders are also at the protest site.
At least ten people were killed while several others remained trapped after a methane gas blast at an under-construction tunnel of the NHPC’s Teesta State VI hydroelectric in Sikkim’s Namchi district on Monday (July 20, 2026) led to it being partially damaged. The NHPC stated the blast happened due to a “sudden burst of suspected methane gas trapped/embedded inside the rocks which led to [the] explosion generating dense fumes and toxic gas.”
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday (July 21, 2026) directed that activist Sonam Wangchuk, who has been on a 24-day hunger strike in solidarity with the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) student protest, be immediately shifted from Safdarjung Hospital to Medanta Hospital in Gurugram, holding that the transfer was necessary to ensure his safety and protect his fundamental rights under Articles 19 and 21 of the Constitution.
A day after a protest march organised by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on the NEET question paper leak almost breached Parliament and was faced with police barricades and lathis, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told NDA MPs that his government had taken “strict action” against those involved in the leakage and stressed to his MPs them to reach out to the youth.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday (July 21, 2026) demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi must apologise to students for the police brutality against them and resign along with Home Minister Amit Shah. Speaking with reporters in Parliament House complex, Mr. Gandhi said he met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla in the morning along with other MPs and conveyed that the Opposition wants to discuss the students issue.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday (July 21, 2026) liberated the Kerala Waqf Board from the supervision of a State official, indicating it can judicially intervene in case of “egregious” interference in a statutory body’s day-to-day management. A three-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant passed the order while hearing the Board’s appeal against an interim order of the Kerala High Court on July 15.
Notwithstanding a series of measures taken in the recent past to popularise bio-fuel blending, the government informed on Monday (July 20, 2026) that no decision has been taken to increase the blending quantum of ethanol with petrol beyond the present 20%. It further added that no decision had been taken to blend ethanol with diesel for commercial use.
TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday (July 21, 2026) appealed to all INDIA bloc constituents, including the Congress and the CPI(M), in West Bengal to bury their differences and unite against the BJP, while drawing a firm line against rebels within her own party, saying “traitors” would never be taken back.
The ongoing wars in the world have led to various degrees of delays in the negotiations of at least three separate trade deals that India is working on, sources in the government have confirmed. These deals involve countries that cumulatively account for about 20% of India’s total trade. These negotiations are on separate FTAs with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, Israel, and the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union.
Observing that an adult unmarried daughter is entitled to invoke Section 20(d) of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, to seek monetary relief from her father for pursuing postgraduation amid her parents’ strained domestic relationship, the Karnataka High Court upheld a trial court order directing a man to pay ₹16 lakh towards the annual fee for his daughter’s PG medical course.
The Israeli military is quietly but quickly building a giant earthen barrier separating the over 50% of the Gaza Strip it controls from the rest of the territory, according to satellite imagery, further entrenching the division of the tiny Palestinian enclave. More than 23 km (14 miles) have been constructed in recent months, running through Palestinian communities demolished by the military.
Published - July 21, 2026 06:37 pm IST