India News LIVE Updates, 26 June 2026

On Thursday, an FIR was lodged at Kotwali Ramjanmabhoomi police station on a complaint by Krishna Mohan, a member of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust. (File Photo)

India LIVE news: The eight men who were named in a FIR  for alleged theft, misappropriation of cash, embezzlement of funds and valuables donated to the Ram temple in Ayodhya have been arrested, said Ayodhya Police.

The National Investigation Agency has filed a chargesheet against 11 people for allegedly spreading terrorist ideology linked to the banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in West Bengal and the northeastern states. The agency said the accused were part of Imam Mahmuder Kafila (IMK), an offshoot of the JMB. The accused have been named in a chargesheet filed before a special NIA court in Guwahati.

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Jawaharlal Nehru University has released individual scores, ranks and merit list for PG programmes. Candidates who have applied for one year and two year MA, MSc and MCA courses can now check the results on the official website of the university. Candidates are required to pay the enrollment fees by 27th June. Second merit list will be published on 3rd July.

A priest in Kota was found dead with 26 stab wounds, with investigators now focusing on a power struggle over 215 acres of land belonging to a 10th-century math at the centre of the case. The brutality of the killing has put a long-simmering dispute over the religious institution’s land holdings firmly under the spotlight.

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