A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking the de-registration of the Indian National Congress (INC) over its “vote-chori” campaign against the Election Commission of India (ECI). The plea also seeks the constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge for allegedly maligning the poll body.

The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind (JUH) has demanded the immediate removal of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, accusing him of communal bias and hate speech in connection with ongoing eviction drives in the state.

Karnataka is facing a severe groundwater crisis, with 45 taluks in the state reporting complete depletion of their groundwater levels.

The Assam government has decided to halt the issuance of Aadhaar cards to adults above the age of 18, except for individuals from Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), and tea garden communities. The decision, which will come into effect in October, is part of the state’s ongoing efforts to curb alleged fraudulent Aadhaar enrollments by illegal migrants.

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, on Friday announced plans to open its first office in India later this year, selecting New Delhi as its base. The decision comes as India emerges as the company’s second-largest user base after the United States and one of its fastest-growing markets, with weekly active users rising more than fourfold over the past year.

An explosion at the Vyasa Vidya Peethom primary school in Vadakanthara, Palakkad, has triggered panic and a political controversy in Kerala. The blast occurred on Wednesday evening when a 10-year-old student unknowingly threw an object that turned out to be a country bomb. The child sustained minor injuries, while an elderly woman nearby was also slightly hurt.

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, who is also the Congress state president, took everyone by surprise on Friday when he sang the RSS anthem during a discussion in the state Assembly on the stampede near Chinnaswamy stadium, which claimed the lives of 11 people.

The Guwahati Crime Branch on Thursday registered a First Information Report (FIR) against journalist and YouTuber Abhisar Sharma on the basis of a complaint filed by a local resident alleging that he had uploaded a video ridiculing both the Assam and the Union governments, a senior police officer said.