22 July, 2025: Congress claims ‘deeper reasons' for Dhankhar resignation & other news of the day
Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday expressed strong reservations against the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls being undertaken by the Election Commission (EC) in Bihar ahead of the upcoming assembly elections, accusing the government of 'murdering democracy'. This comes amid protests by the INDIA bloc and its leaders in Parliament's premises against the electoral rolls revision exercise being carried out by the EC. The opposition leaders have alleged that voting rights of people are being taken away.
In a letter to President Droupadi Murmu, 74-year-old Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar said his resignation will be effective immediately. 'To prioritise healthcare and abide by medical advice, I hereby resign as the Vice President of India, effective immediately,' his letter read. The Congress claimed there is more than meets the eye and 'far deeper reasons' for Jagdeep Dhankhar's resignation than the health issues he has cited, and said his resignation speaks highly of him but poorly of those who got him elected to the post.
'No issues': AI on fuel control switch on Boeings
In a statement Tuesday, Air India informed that it has concluded inspections on the locking mechanism of the Fuel Control Switch (FCS) on all Boeing 787 and 737 aircraft in its fleet and stated that no issues were found. The inspections were conducted on the directions of the DGCA after the AI-171 crash. On 21 July, MoS Civil Aviation Murlidhar Mohol informed Parliament that no adverse trend was flagged/reported in reliability reports of Air India during the last six months in respect of AI171 that crashed in Ahmedabad last month.
Appointment of 3 more judges to Delhi HC approved
The Centre, through the Ministry of Law and Justice, on Tuesday notified the appointment of three judges to the Delhi High Court. Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal announced the appointments via his official account on X. Acting upon the recommendations, the President approved the appointments of Ms. Shail Jain, Ms. Madhu Jain, and Mr. Vinod Kumar as judges of the Delhi High Court. Following these appointments, the working strength of judges at the Delhi High Court rises to 43, while the sanctioned strength stands at 60.
Preparation for Census 2027 starts: MHA in Lok Sabha
Preparation for Census 2027 has started, and a two-day conference of Directors of Census Operations was held at the beginning of this month, Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) told the Lok Sabha Tuesday. The two-day conference was held on July 3-4 in New Delhi.
The conference featured discussion on the roadmap for the Census and related activities such as finalisation of frame of administrative units, collection of data through mobile apps, management and monitoring of census activities through Census Management and Monitoring System (CMMS) portal, self-enumeration, training of census functionaries, etc.
Bihar hospital murder: Two suspects shot in encounter, 7 held
Two murder suspects in the killing of gangster Chandan Mishra in a Patna hospital were injured in a police encounter. The incident took place during a joint operation by the Bihar special task force and Bhojpur police. The suspects have been identified as Balwant Kumar Singh and Ravi Ranjan Kumar Singh, and both are currently in hospital for treatment.
7 militants arrested in Manipur
Seven militants were arrested from different parts of Manipur, the police said on Tuesday. Three of them, identified as Khumanthem Umakanta Singh (36), Pukhrambam Naoton Singh (22) and Soibam Bargil Meitei (23), are members of the Kangleipak communist party, and were arrested on Sunday from Tengnoupal district. The other four are cadres of the UPPK and arrested on Monday from the East Imphal district.
18-year-old kidnapped and raped in Odisha
An 18 year old woman in Odisha was allegedly kidnapped by two men while returning home with a friend, taken to a farmland in Jagatsinghpur district and raped, police said on Tuesday. Amrendra Das, BJP MLA of Jagatsinghpur, said that the police have launched a search operation for the culprits.
British Navy's F-35B jet takes off from Kerala airport
British Royal Navy's F-35B jet took off from the international airport in Kerala Tuesday, a month after making an emergency landing. Officials said that the jet, which took off at 10:50 am flew to Darwin in Australia. The F-35B landed in Thiruvananthapuram when it was undertaking a routine flight outside the Indian air defence identification zone, which is a designated area of airspace extending beyond a country's sovereign territory.
Saksham Thakur is an alumna of ThePrint School of Journalism, currently interning with ThePrint.
(Edited by Viny Mishra)
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