The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether a protocol can be developed so that urgent cases involving imminent threats to the right to and liberty are heard promptly, even outside regular court hours. The matter came up in response to a PIL filed on the issue.

A bipartisan group of US senators has unveiled a bill that would impose 100% tariffs on five countries, including India and China, for purchasing oil from . The bill, brokered by late Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, exempts 15 European nations that buy gas from Russia from the tariffs, arguing that those purchases amount to a fraction of their total energy needs. The other countries on the list are Slovakia, Hungary, and Azerbaijan.

Writer and activist is set to return to Kolkata after 20 years. The Bangladeshi author has been living in India since 2004 and has been in exile since the 1990s. She had faced violent protests in Bangladesh following threats from Islamist groups, and settled in Kolkata in 2007 — calling it home — before protests there forced her to leave the city.

An investigative report published this week by The New York Times found that, owing to weak espionage laws, Moscow has been using as a key hub for intelligence gathering and the procurement of dual-use technology for its war in Ukraine. Nikkei Business had previously reported, in August 2022, that around 120 Russian intelligence officers were operating in the country.

, the US secretary of state, has launched a campaign to dismantle the International Criminal Court (ICC). His claim: the global tribunal is interfering with US military and law enforcement operations, threatening American sovereignty. International legal experts, however, say the secretary is mischaracterising the tribunal's role.