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Rising Temperatures Threaten India’s Wheat Belt: Report

Punjab and Haryana warming at half a degree per decade during the wheat season, with minimum temperatures rising nearly three times faster in Gujarat 1 June 2026, New Delhi: India produces over 107 million tonnes of wheat annually, making it the second-largest wheat producer in the world and accounting for roughly 14% of global output.

Baby thrown with the bathwater?

In May 2026, the Supreme Court of India took suo motu cognizance of bail orders passed by the Orissa High Court and trial court.

Dealing with digital poison

The Supreme Court’s direction to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry to frame a mechanism for screening user-generated content before it is uploaded has reopened a debate India has never quite resolved: how to curb digital poison without handing the State a permanent switch over speech.

A need for legal reform

Very recently, the Madras High Court, on 25 October, declared cryptocurrency a ‘property’ of the user. The question for declaring it as a property arose from a recent incident in which an investor, Rhuti Kumar, among other investors, lost savings in WazirX due to a cyberattack on the platform.

Justice in the Dock

The move to impeach a judge of the Madras High Court for a judgment that he had pronounced is patently wrong, because according to the Constitution, a judge of the High Court may be removed by impeachment only on the ground of proven misbehaviour or incapacity, which can hardly be inferred from a single judgement – even if demonstrably wrong.