THE Chief Justice of India compared unemployed youth to “cockroaches,” saying that “some of them become media, some become social media, RTI activists” and “start attacking everyone.” The remark was made by Justice Surya Kant on May 15, 2026, during a Supreme Court hearing on a lawyer’s petition concerning senior advocate designation.

THE 38th Bihar State Conference of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) was held from June 6-8, 2026 at Motihari in East Champaran district. It was attended by 315 delegates from 30 districts. Champaran is famous for the indigo farmers struggle led by Mahatma Gandhi in 1917. After that, there have been several militant class struggles in this district, led by the AIKS against landlordism, for land rights, and on other issues. 

The Modi government at the centre has fully operationalised the four labour codes on May 8, 2026, notifying 30 central rules. Several state governments are also prepared to operationalise the codes in line with the central rules. BJP led state governments are eager to do it at the earliest as double engine sarkars.  The non-BJP led state governments are also prepared with the final drafts of state rules, even though they are opposing the central labour codes for public consumption.

Neo-liberal spokesmen have the remarkable quality that whenever an economy gets into a crisis through the pursuit of neo-liberalism, their standard panacea for it is to demand even more neo-liberal “reforms”.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to transfer ₹2,86,588.46 crore as surplus profit to the Union Government for the financial year 2025-26. This decision was taken on May 22, 2026, in a board meeting chaired by RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra. This marks the largest surplus profit transfer in history. While the media used to give massive coverage to such large transfers by the Reserve Bank in the past, that was missing this time.