A US judge struck down the USD fee Donald Trump imposed on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, ruling it an unlawful tax passed without congressional authorisation. The H-1B programme offers 65,000 visas annually, plus 20,000 for workers with advanced degrees, valid for three to six years.

India is estimated to have expanded its arsenal in 2025 and continued developing new delivery systems, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Yearbook 2026. The report puts the country's warhead stockpile at 190, with a focus on longer-range weapons capable of reaching targets deep inside China.

Twenty MPs of the , led by the party's chief whip in Parliament, have written to the Lok Sabha Speaker declaring support for the ruling NDA. This follows 60 MLAs forming a separate group in the West Bengal Assembly, defying party leadership.

Omar Artan, named Africa's best football referee for 2025 and a FIFA referee since 2018, has been denied entry into the United States. The referee from was stopped at Miami International Airport despite allegedly holding a valid travel visa. His home country is among the many nations covered by the broad travel ban imposed by the Trump administration.

Acclaimed graphic novelist , whose works include illustrated dispatches from Gaza, Palestine and the Balkans, has run into distribution troubles for his latest work, "The Once and Future Riot", on the 2013 Muzaffarnagar communal clashes that left over 60 dead and 40,000 displaced. His Indian publisher Penguin Random House has cancelled plans to publish and distribute the book.