A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging a Bombay High Court judgment that refused to order a criminal investigation into allegations that Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) illegally extracted natural gas from an adjoining Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) block in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) Basin.

Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) founder Abhijit Dipke on Saturday announced that he was beginning an indefinite hunger strike shortly after activist Sonam Wangchuk was shifted by Delhi Police to Safdarjung Hospital from the Jantar Mantar protest site.

"I am starting an indefinite hunger strike beginning right now," Dipke said in a post on X.

Punjab National Bank (PNB) on Saturday reported an over three-fold jump in standalone net profit at ₹5,253 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2026.

The state-owned bank had posted a net profit of ₹1,675 crore in the year-ago period.

India's first privately developed orbital rocket, Vikram-1 on Saturday successfully placed multiple technology demonstration payloads and postcards, including from Prime Minister Narendra Modi into a low earth orbit.

Dubbed 'Mission Aagaman' (meaning arrival), it marks the entry of India's private space sector into the orbital launch market, spearheaded by Skyroot Aerospace.

One of the bills set to be introduced in the monsoon session of Parliament aims to make any insult or obstruction to the singing of Vande Mataram a punishable offence.

Under the Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Bill, 2026, a person charged with the ‘offence’ can face up to three years in jail under the new law, similar to the penalty for insulting the National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged embezzlement of donations at the Ram temple may submit an interim report to the Supreme Court on Monday in compliance with the apex court's directions, sources said on Friday.

Sources further said the SIT may seek more time from the Uttar Pradesh government to finalise its investigation into the alleged financial irregularities related to donations received by the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will continue to prioritise inflation while supporting economic growth, Governor Sanjay Malhotra said, adding that low and stable inflation provides the foundation for sustainable growth by enabling businesses and households to make long-term investment decisions.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday flagged off India's first hydrogen-powered train connecting Jind to Sonipat in Haryana from the railway station here.

With this, India has joined a select group of countries that have operational hydrogen-powered trains and marks an important step towards the adoption of clean and sustainable mobility in the railway sector.

Reliance Jio received a major boost for its ambitious space communication plans after India's space regulator, IN-SPACe, adjudged its proposal to deploy around 1,600 low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites as "technically sound", reported The Economic Times.

The technical evaluation was carried out in consultation with the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) and the Department of Telecommunications (DoT).

Health authorities in Andhra Pradesh have confirmed 12 Covid-19 infections across the state between June 26 and July 16. The state government has dispatched five samples to the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, to identify the specific virus variant circulating among the patients.

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