Protests over India’s voter-roll revision continued for a third day on 4 October, with opposition activists and supporters of a youth-led political movement calling for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to resign.
Ten opposition members of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, have asked its chairman to put off the panel's October 12 meeting by at least four weeks. The Bill has drawn objections from opposition parties and Christian groups.
Christian and Muslim leaders in Punjab have objected to remarks by Hindu preacher Dhirendra Krishna Shastri on religious conversion, with Christian representatives approaching police and a senior Muslim cleric demanding a public apology.
Four little-known political parties in Gujarat are under criminal investigation over an alleged political donation racket that authorities say caused a prima facie loss of about Rs 680 crore (US$71.6 million) to the government exchequer.
A Naga students’ body has warned that border villagers may turn to China for help if the Centre and the Manipur government cannot protect them, after a succession of killings in the state’s hill districts.
A research group has recorded at least 60 incidents targeting Christians in 13 districts of the Indian state of West Bengal since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) formed its government there for the first time in May.
Churches in Dhamtari, a town in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, have put up notices warning non-Christians that they enter at their own risk, weeks after a law against religious conversion came into force in the state.
Mumbai Police have denied the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) permission to hold a protest at Shivaji Park on October 2 against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, even as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Opposition traded sharp accusations over the Election Commission’s handling of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
A newspaper investigation published on Wednesday revealed that two of India’s three Election Commissioners repeatedly objected, in writing, to decisions taken in the name of the Election Commission of India (ECI) without their knowledge. The revelation triggered a political storm, with opposition parties demanding the resignation and, in several cases, the arrest of the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar.
The eastern Indian state of Odisha has refused to release Rabindra Kumar Pal, better known as Dara Singh, who is serving a life sentence for burning to death Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two young sons at Manoharpur village in 1999.
India’s Supreme Court on Thursday, September 17, ordered the Chief Secretary of Manipur, the state’s senior-most civil servant, to explain deaths in relief camps for people displaced by ethnic violence. A report from an officer of the Indian Administrative Service recorded 34 unnatural deaths in the camps. One of them was allegedly linked to a sexual assault.
An ecumenical Christian organisation in West Bengal has reported 26 alleged attacks against Christians, churches and prayer gatherings over the past three months and called on the state government to take immediate action.
