India Archive

On the quiet suburban fringe of northwest Bengaluru, where modern concrete developments gradually replace the orchards of Chikkabanavara, a three-storey residential building in Gudde Basavapura became the focal point of a complex homicide investigation. Abhinandan, a 34-year-old diploma engineer employed in the industrial suburb of Peenya, and his five-year-old son, Yaduveer Gowda, were found dead inside their family home.

In the high-security counting rooms beneath the newly consecrated Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, under the soft glow of CCTV monitors, millions of rupees in physical cash offered by faithful devotees were systematically pocketed over six weeks. What began as a whisper of missing offerings quickly evolved into a national political firestorm, threatening public trust in India’s most prominent spiritual project.

In a significant counter-terrorism operation, the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (UP ATS) arrested a 24-year-old man from Bihar on Sunday, August 16, for his operational links with the proscribed Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM). According to investigative agencies, the young man was actively collecting donations disguised as religious charity for a madrasa while attempting to channel those funds across the border to Pakistan to finance jihadist operations inside India.

The tranquil waters of Chhota Talab in Bhopal, traditionally a scenic focal point of the historic city, became the backdrop of a horrifying crime that has exposed the lethal intersection of extreme socio-economic vulnerability, digital misinformation, and youth radicalization. In mid-August 2026, law enforcement agencies in Madhya Pradesh unraveled a bizarre and gruesome murder plot involving the death of a 17-year-old pen vendor.

On Monday, August 17, 2026, inside the central headquarters of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in New Delhi, party president Nitin Nabin unveiled a comprehensive organizational restructuring that formally signaled the commencement of BJP 3.0’s next electoral campaign. Standing at the center of this administrative reset was the appointment of Smriti Zubin Irani as one of the party’s eight National General Secretaries. The decision marked a high-profile return to the party’s core execution apparatus for the former Union Cabinet Minister.

Outside the Intensive Care Unit of the Miraj Government Hospital, oxygen monitors chime in steady cadence with the strained breathing of forty-five-year-old Mohan Nagappa Kesarekar. His head, heavily wrapped in surgical gauze, bears the traumatic marks of an iron hammer strike. Sitting on the stone bench in the hallway are his two teenage children—an eleventh-grade daughter and a seventh-grade son—suddenly left without their mother.

Sumitro Chatterjee, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing Naihati and a direct descendant of the revered literary figure Rishi Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, has addressed a strongly worded letter to Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi. In the communication, Chatterjee expressed his profound anguish over what he described as an insult to the national song, "Vande Mataram," during an event organised at the Congress headquarters on Independence Day.

More than 36 years after the brutal abduction and murder of the respected Kashmiri Pandit poet, scholar, and social reformer Sarwanand Koul Premi and his young son, Virender Koul, the State Investigation Agency (SIA) of Jammu and Kashmir has initiated a significant push in its ongoing probe. On Wednesday, August 12, the agency conducted extensive search operations across nine targeted locations throughout Jammu and Kashmir. The primary goal of these coordinated raids is to track down, identify, and apprehend all individuals and conspirators connected to the historic 1990 double murder.

Ever since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) assumed power at the Centre in 2014, sections of both domestic and international Islamo-leftist media outlets have continuously generated biased reports and documentaries. These productions are designed to sustain a persistent narrative claiming that ‘Indian Muslims are being persecuted by Hindutva fascists’ alongside assertions that ‘Islamophobia on a rise in India’.

On August 15, as the nation observed its 80th Independence Day, tensions flared in Ranchi when police stopped student leader Devendra Nath Mahto from leaving Sadar Hospital to participate in a scheduled Tiranga Yatra at the Jaipal Singh Munda Stadium. Mahto, a key leader of the Jharkhand Loktantrik Krantikari Morcha (JLKM), has been leading a sustained indefinite hunger strike since Sunday night, August 2, in solidarity with thousands of job aspirants protesting systemic irregularities in state-level competitive examinations.