Letters to The Editor — June 10, 2026

State of the Opposition

Recent governmental developments — reports of immoderate Trinamool Congress MPs being successful interaction with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the melodramatic illness of the Congress–Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam confederation successful Tamil Nadu, and the earlier defection of immoderate Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha MPs to the BJP — constituent to a troubling weakening of the Opposition and, by extension, the strategy of checks and balances. This has travel arsenic a governmental boon for the ruling BJP, which fell abbreviated of a elemental bulk successful Parliament. Having a beardown Opposition remains indispensable to the wellness of immoderate democracy.

Kshirasagara Balaji Rao,

Hyderabad

In lockdown

It is not lone shocking but besides a shame that each experts progressive successful setting, moderating and translating the NEET- UG 2026 retest question papers person been moved to a secure, undisclosed determination and placed nether strict isolation protocols till the extremity of the examination.

The determination is unprecedented successful the past of the Indian acquisition strategy and undoubtedly an insult to each the experts progressive successful the process of preparing the NEET-UG question papers. The stringent measures envisaged person made it abundantly wide however the nationalist investigating bureau has go rotten nether the authorities of the day.

Tharcius S. Fernando,

Chennai