Top news of the day: Supreme Court backs CBI probe in Twisha Sharma death case; petrol, diesel prices hiked for fourth time in ten days, and more

Subscribed with another email? Logout and Login with that one. Account subscription benefits alongside Premium Stories, Editorials, Opinions and more. Unlock these with Subscription The View From India Looking at World Affairs from the Indian perspective. First Day First Show News and reviews from the world of cinema and streaming. Today's Cache Your download of the top 5 technology stories of the day. Science For All The weekly newsletter from science writers takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Data Point Decoding the headlines with facts, figures, and numbers THEdge At the cutting edge of education and careers Health Matters Ramya Kannan writes to you on getting to good health, and staying there Gender Agenda Stories from beyond the binary. The Hindu On Books Books of the week, reviews, excerpts, new titles and features. A petrol pump attendant inputs data at a fuel station in Visakhapatnam. The display shows the price of premium petrol touching ₹116.38 per litre, reflecting the ongoing fluctuations in fuel pricing across the country, on May 25, 2026. | Photo Credit: V. Raju The Supreme Court on Monday (May 25, 2026) backed the Madhya Pradesh government’s call to hand over the former model-turned-actor Twisha Sharma's death case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), saying it had stepped in with awareness of a “narrative” created that the judiciary was involved in denying her family a fair probe. The court had registered the suo motu case titled ‘In Re: Alleged Institutional Bias and Procedural Differences In The Unnatural Death Of A Young Girl At Her Matrimonial Home’ late on the evening of Saturday (May 23, 2026), posting the case for urgent hearing on Monday (May 25, 2026). Prices of petrol and diesel were hiked for the fourth time in a span of ten days on Monday (May 25, 2026), with the latest being at a comparatively steeper ₹2.7 to ₹2.8 per litre across the country and across all variants. With the latest hike, the standalone prices of the two retail fuels have cumulatively increased about ₹7.5 per litre across four tranches since the first hike on May 15. . President Droupadi Murmu conferred the Padma awards to the recipients in New Delhi on Monday (May 25, 2026). Ms. Murmu conferred Padma Vibhushan posthumously to actor Dharmendra; his wife, Hema Malini, received the award. Padma Vibhushan was conferred on violinist N. Rajam. The President conferred Padma Bhushan on former Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and banker Uday Kotak. The Supreme Court on Monday (May 25, 2026) stressed that girls should not give up education only for the reason that sanitary napkins and functional, gender-segregated toilets are not available at schools and asked the Centre to ensure that its directions in this regard are effectively complied with in letter and spirit. The apex court’s observation came after the Centre said its January 30 judgement directing authorities to provide free sanitary napkins to girl students and functional, gender-segregated toilets at schools has led to galvanisation of efforts in all States and Union Territories. Hundreds of Nagas on Monday (May 25, 2026) staged a protest rally in Manipur’s capital, Imphal, demanding the immediate release of six civilians allegedly held hostage by suspected Kuki militants. Organised by the Naga People’s Union Imphal, the rally, joined by several members of the Meitei community, began from the Tribal Market area in Imphal East district and headed towards the Chief Minister’s bungalow. The protesters were stopped by a large contingent of security personnel near the Palace Gate, around 200 metres from the Chief Minister’s residence, after marching nearly 300 metres, officials said. Ugandan health authorities on Monday (May 25, 2026) reported two new Ebola cases, bringing the number of infections to seven. All the cases are linked to the outbreak in neighbouring Congo, which appears to have started several days or weeks before Congolese authorities declared it on May 15, 2026. A 59-year-old Congolese man was admitted to a hospital in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, on May 11, 2026, and died three days later, before it was known that he was suffering from the Ebola virus. Two other Congolese nationals who sought medical care in Uganda later tested positive for Ebola. Iran said on Monday (May 25, 2026) that Tehran and Washington had reached understandings on many issues in exchanges over a deal for ending the war, but warned an agreement was not imminent. “It is correct to say that we have reached a conclusion on a large portion of the issues under discussion,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said, during a weekly news briefing. “But to say that this means the signing of an agreement is imminent -no one can make such a claim,” he said, accusing Washington of “contradictions” and shifting its positions. As petrol and diesel prices were raised by ₹2.61-2.71 per litre on Monday (May 25, 2026), marking the f

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