Compensatory afforestation is a mandatory legal requirement under which entities must create new forests or restore degraded land. 

 The BJP’s prospects hinges on overperformance in Jangalmahal and North Bengal, alongside strategic inroads into Greater Kolkata, a TMC bastion 

 Rajnath Singh called for forging a unified front to tackle terrorism, separatism, extremism by eliminating safe havens and rejecting any political exceptions. 

 Rajnath Singh called for forging a unified front to tackle terrorism, separatism, extremism by eliminating safe havens and rejecting any political exceptions. 

 A bandh by Dalit groups in Kerala over a student’s suicide led to clashes and arrests, disrupting normal life statewide amid demands for justice.