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Naga groups on Tuesday (June 9) released the 14 Kuki individuals they had continued to hold hostage in Manipur for close to a month amid simmering ethnic tensions, while the fate of six Nagas whom members of that community say remain with their Kuki captors is unclear.Manipur’s police said on Tuesday that the 14 Kuki individuals were released from the predominantly Naga Senapati district and, following a medical examination, were returned to their Taphou Kuki village in Kangpokpi district.United Naga Council president N. Lorho told the press that the 14 Kukis were released in view of Union home minister Amit Shah’s assurance via the Nagaland chief minister that the government would work to find the six missing Nagas. “We have made the first move on humanitarian grounds,” he told the Indian Express.Manipur chief minister Y. Khemchand Singh and deputy chief minister Nemcha Kipgen, who is Kuki, welcomed the 14 Kukis’ release and praised the Naga groups for freeing them, although neither official mentioned the six missing Nagas.Kuki and Naga groups took people from each other’s community hostage on May 13 in tit-for-tat moves amid ethnic strife between the two sides, which became inflamed when three Thadou church leaders were ambushed and shot dead in Kangpokpi earlier that day. Some say the Thadous belong to the broader Kuki-Zo community, but others still deny that notion.Both sides released 14 hostages two days later but the Nagas continued to keep 14 Kukis hostage. They had planned to release the remaining Kukis on June 1 but deferred doing so in view of protests by Naga groups demanding a hostage exchange.Read more on thewire.in by @thewirein

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As tensions simmer in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), where deadly clashes between protesters and police took place over the weekend, India on Tuesday (June 9) said it hopes the international community will hold Islamabad accountable “for its misdeeds and its abuses”.Asked about purported attempts to blame India for the unrest, the external affairs ministry also said Pakistan is making “desperate” attempts to “cover up its own failings”.“We continue to see in this context a pattern of fake news and videos emanating from Pakistan. It is a desperate attempt by Pakistan to cover up its own failings and deflect attention away from its human rights abuses,” ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said on Tuesday.Referring to reports of “police brutality” as well as fatalities and injuries in PoK, he added that India hopes “the international community will hold Pakistan accountable for its misdeeds and its abuses”.Those parts of PoK that Islamabad calls Azad Jammu and Kashmir have been tense amid the administration’s crackdown on the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) civil society organisation, which has been agitating over regional issues since its formation in 2023.After talks with the Pakistani government failed last month the JAAC had scheduled a strike and a march for Tuesday to protest the reservation of 12 seats in the regional legislature for Kashmiri settlers in Pakistan, alleging that the country’s mainstream political parties use them to exercise undue influence on the local government’s formation.Read more on thewire.in by @thewirein

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Calling the National Testing Agency (NTA) a “National Torturing Agency” due to its repeated failure to conduct examinations effectively, the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) on Monday, June 9, demanded the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan “within ten days”, and said it would march to the Ministry of Education on June 19 if its demand was not met. The student body also demanded scrapping of the NTA, citing repeated controversies over the exams it has conducted, especially the latest NEET-undergraduate exam to select medical aspirants, which had to be cancelled over a paper leak.Among SFI’s key demands is the creation of a more transparent examination and evaluation system in place of the NTA. Speaking at the Press Club of India on Monday, leaders including Adarsh M. Saji, president of SFI; Subhash Jakhar, the vice president; Srijan Bhattacharya, the secretary; and Aishe Ghosh, the joint secretary, said the student body was planning to approach the courts to scrap the testing agency.“NTA, in its nearly ten years of existence, has been involved in multiple re-examinations, paper leaks, technical errors and other issues. We are planning to go to court to scrap NTA,” said Bhattacharya. He said NTA had been involved in “48 re-examinations and 89 paper leaks” in eight years, adding that “this NTA has become a National Torturing Agency”.The student leaders said that in the ongoing movement against paper leaks, young aspirants to higher education and professional education have been raising serious allegations of mismanagement of examinations by the Ministry of Education.The SFI had been protesting against the NTA over repeated instances of examination-related and other failures in the education system. Following the cancellation of the 2026 NEET-UG paper, the activists sought to protest outside the Ministry of Human Resource Development, to condemn the cancellation as well as the paper leak. However, said the panel, over 25 student activists were arrested for peacefully protesting.Read more on thewire.in by @thewirein

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A day after the US military publicly acknowledged striking and disabling the oil tanker MT Marivex in the Gulf of Oman, the Indian government on Tuesday (June 9) largely echoed Washington’s description of the episode while continuing to avoid directly identifying the United States as responsible for the attack.Speaking at the weekly media briefing, external affairs ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said the Palau-flagged vessel carrying 24 Indian crew members had been “disabled” off the coast of Oman and confirmed that there had been contact between the ship and the US Navy before the incident.“The ship MT Marivex was disabled off the coast of Oman. We have learnt that it is a Palau-flagged vessel. We also understand that there was some exchange of communication between the ship and the US Navy before the incident,” he said.The chronology closely tracks parts of the US military’s own account. In a statement on Monday, the US Central Command said an F-18 fighter aircraft launched from the USS Abraham Lincoln had fired a precision munition at the vessel after the crew “failed to comply with directions from US forces”. CENTCOM added that the ship had been “disabled” and was “no longer sailing to Iran”.While Jaiswal used the same term employed by the US military and referred to communication between the vessel and the US Navy, he did not say what disabled the tanker or who carried out the action.The comments marked New Delhi’s first public response to Monday’s incident, in which US forces struck the tanker as part of Washington’s ongoing blockade of Iranian ports.Read more on thewire.in by @thewirein

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The nomination of Meenakshi Natarajan, the Congress’s sole candidate from Madhya Pradesh for the latest round of Rajya Sabha elections, was cancelled on Tuesday (June 8) in a series of dramatic developments in Bhopal and New Delhi.After Natarajan’s nomination was cancelled allegedly over her failure to disclose the details of a criminal case pending against her in her affidavit, a delegation of Congress MPs sought to meet the Election Commission in Delhi but were stopped from entering, following which they sat on a dharna outside the poll body’s office.In a statement, the Congress accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Election Commission of silencing “every democratic voice”.“Democracy cannot survive when constitutional institutions are reduced to instruments of political convenience. The rejection of Congress Rajya Sabha candidate Meenakshi Natarajan’s nomination from Madhya Pradesh raises serious questions about the fairness of our democratic institutions,” the party said.“When a Congress delegation approached the Election Commission to challenge this decision, officials refused to even meet them, forcing the delegation to stage a sit-in outside its office. The country is watching.”Congress MPs K.C. Venugopal and Jairam Ramesh, former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot and former Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel had reached the Election Commission’s office in Delhi after Natarajan’s nomination was cancelled. But the delegation was not allowed inside, following which they sat on a dharna outside.“Every such action raises serious questions about the independence of institutions and the health of our democracy. Democracy belongs to the people, not to those who seek to undermine it. PM Modi and the Election Commission want to silence every democratic voice that challenges the government. But our fight to protect the Constitution and democratic values will continue,” the Congress said.Read more on thewire.in by @thewirein

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On June 9, compounding her significant woes, police arrived at Mamata Banerjee’s house in connection with a case filed against her over the forgery of signatures of legislators who had supported her. It solidified her abject isolation in this odd moment.The collapse of the Trinamool Congress was as spectacular as its formation, driven by a striking organisational irony. The TMC began in 1998 as a breakaway force led by a rebellious Mamata Banerjee against the parent Congress. Decades later, its disintegration was accelerated from within when a turncoat with negligible independent popular support turned against the leadership that had trusted and elevated him. The rapid institutional dissolution of a party that dominated West Bengal politics for 15 years represents something far deeper than a conventional electoral reversal, defying the standard cyclical volatility of democratic politics. What has happened to TMC is more elementary than the fortunes lost by the Congress after the Emergency and the Left in Bengal. It is the fall of a ruling ecosystem that had forgotten how to exist outside power.The most brutal part of this collapse came not in Kolkata but in New Delhi. After the Assembly election defeat, TMC’s residual national relevance depended almost entirely on its parliamentary strength. Even after losing Bengal, Mamata Banerjee could still claim a national role as the leader of one of the largest non-Congress opposition parties in parliament. This last platform collapsed when the legislative rebellion replicated itself at the national level on June 8, 2026, unfolding directly in New Delhi, barely a kilometre away from the Constitutional Club where Mamata Banerjee was attending an opposition INDIA bloc meeting.Read more on thewire.in by @thewirein

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Across the United States, politicians routinely claim there is no money for universal healthcare, affordable housing, modern infrastructure, debt-free education or social welfare programmes needed to address poverty, unemployment and growing insecurity. Similar arguments justify austerity across much of the world. Yet, when it comes to war, resources seem virtually unlimited. “How will we pay for this?” is a question unheard of when it comes to waging wars or supplying arms to proxies.Since 1945, the US has spent trillions of dollars on building and sustaining a global military order: funding wars, interventions, occupations, overseas bases and weapons systems on an unprecedented scale. Such spending is measured not only in dollars, but also in terms of opportunity cost. Public needs are left unmet at home while societies are shattered abroad through displacement, destruction and a systematic generation of trauma. For Americans, this opportunity cost is immense. However, for several countries on the receiving end of this military power, the damage is impossible to calculate. The recent US and Israeli war on Iran offers a useful starting point for examining this wider history.According to Brown University’s “Cost of War” project, the Iran war had already cost around $29 billion in terms of missiles, bombs and personnel deployed, by May 18, 2026. On top of that, additional energy costs paid by American consumers had reached $40 billion. This massive amount of money could have been spent elsewhere on more beneficial projects, had there been a will to do so from the US state.Read more on thewire.in by @thewirein

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This story was originally published by ProPublica.In late November in Jamnagar, India, the scions of two of the most powerful families in the world stood face-to-face. On one side was 30-year-old Anant Ambani, son of one the richest men in Asia. On the other was Donald Trump Jr. For months, the Trump administration had been on the offensive against the sprawling Ambani energy empire, placing it at the centre of an escalating tariff campaign against India. But after Trump Jr. touched down, the two men toured the Ambanis’ private zoo, and at night they performed a Gujarati folk dance, grinning as they moved together to the music.Four months later, an obscure Texas startup called America First Refining announced that it had received a nine-figure investment from the Ambanis’ company. The deal puzzled numerous energy investors familiar with the project, which aims to build the first major new oil refinery in the US in about 50 years. The company is run by a serial entrepreneur with a history of bankruptcy and lawsuits alleging fraud. After more than a decade of failed attempts to raise money, blown deadlines and rebrands, it had been floundering.America First Refining’s unexpected breakthrough came after it forged a previously unreported relationship with Trump Jr., who secretly acquired a stake in the startup, according to records and seven people familiar with the company. The new details reveal the role the president’s son has played in a theme of Trump’s second term: overseas investors with interests before the administration putting money into the Trump family’s business interests.Over the past year and a half, Trump Jr. has amassed a fortune from stakes in companies ranging from crypto startups to a drone business to a firearms retailer. Some firms tied to the president’s son have received contracts or other support from the federal government, part of what critics describe as a run of Trump family self-dealing. Read more on thewire.in by @thewirein

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On June 8, the Government Railway Police (GRP) at Bareilly Junction told reporters that one person had been arrested in connection with the alleged murder of Muslim cleric Mohammad Tousif Raza from Bihar’s Kishanganj district. Raza’s body was found near railway tracks in Bareilly more than a month ago.In a press note issued by the GRP police station at Bareilly Junction, the police stated that “on June 7, 2026, at around 8:30 pm, one accused, Pankaj Rajput, a 25-year-old resident of Moradabad, was arrested in connection with FIR no. 52/2026”.“With the help of the surveillance team, and based on information obtained through the PNR numbers of passengers, as well as video clips received from co-passengers with respect to the incident, the role of Rajput in the case was established,” the press note further stated.When asked whether video footage was the sole basis for identifying the accused in this case, GRP Station House Officer, Sushil Kumar Verma, while speaking to The Wire over the phone said, “Based on our investigation, his [Rajput’s] presence and identity were confirmed. There is evidence which we have mentioned in the case diary.”Earlier, speaking to local reporters, Inspector Anil Kumar Verma, Circle Officer GRP, said: “On June 7, 2026, we received information from a mukhbir(informant) that the accused was present on Platform No. 2, following which action was taken by the concerned police personnel and the said person was arrested.”Read more on thewire.in by @thewirein

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Eight workers died and six were critically injured in the explosion of a ladle, a vessel used to hold molten metal at temperatures over 1,500 degree celsius, at the steel melting unit of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, a Navaratna Central Public Sector Enterprise whose corporate entity, Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), functions under the Union Ministry of Steel, in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, on Tuesday (June 9) evening.The blast was caused by entrapped gases from liquid steel, a preliminary investigation by the chief inspector of factories at Visakhapatnam has found. The report mentioned that the explosion took place when the full steel ladle was being rotated and centred for casting. “A sudden explosion took place, causing the ladle to tip and molten steel to fall on workers working on the floor below. The explosion took place around 4.15 pm before opening the slide gate. The temperature of the molten steel in the large industrial ladle was around 1,500 to 1,600 degree celsius,” the report said. It added that with the explosion, “the overhead crane also caught fire”. A “ball of fire” rose from the explosion and extended up to the ceiling, a worker reported to the inspector of factories, the report mentioned. Meanwhile, the Union Ministry of Steel issued a separate statement saying a sudden explosion triggered the accident.Read more on thewire.in by @thewirein

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Left leaders Srijan Bhattacharyya and Sujan Chakraborty were among protesters who were arrested while trying to stop the midnight demolition of shops and homes at the Jadavpur station in Kolkata, under the newly elected BJP government. by @thewirein

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The Union government has cut the number of subsidised cooking gas refills available to beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) from nine cylinders a year to just four. The move comes as global LPG supplies face mounting pressure following the ongoing conflict in West Asia.The curtailment was not formally announced and it remains unclear when exactly it took effect. It came to light only on Sunday (June 7), buried in a press statement about a fresh hike in domestic LPG prices, The Hindureported.On Sunday, the government announced a hike of Rs 29 per cylinder, the second such increase since the West Asia conflict began. Combined with an earlier revision, domestic LPG prices have now gone up by Rs 89.A 14.2-kg cylinder currently costs Rs 942 in Delhi. PMUY beneficiaries, who receive an additional Rs 300 subsidy per cylinder from the Union, pay Rs 642, as per the report.Read more on thewire.in by @thewirein

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