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(1) TVK president C. Joseph Vijay sworn successful arsenic Chief Minister aft hung assembly play unfolds successful Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu’s Assembly elections resulted successful a hung assembly for the archetypal clip aft actor-politician Vijay’s caller enactment Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) swept polls to triumph 108 seats successful the 234-seat Assembly, and became the azygous largest enactment by a important borderline implicit Dravidian majors and the State’s duopoly parties DMK and AIADMK.
Since the TVK did not person a pre-poll confederation successful spot contempt reaching retired to different parties, it fell abbreviated of the 118-seat majority. While long-time DMK state Congress (five seats) allied with TVK later, different parties continued to stay undecided. Here are cardinal developments successful the State regarding authorities formation.
The DMK and its allies person expressed enactment for the TVK’s assertion to signifier the authorities fixed to the Governor, calling the Governor’s refusal to let the aforesaid without confirming requisite enactment arsenic BJP’s ploy to halt TVK from forming the government. On the different hand, precedents accidental that it is wrong the Governor’s powers to question specified prima facie confirmation of enactment oregon conjugation majority.
(2) Suvendu Adhikari sworn successful arsenic BJP’s archetypal Chief Minister successful West Bengal aft enactment sweeps elections
Suvendu Adhikar was sworn successful arsenic the archetypal BJP Chief Minister of West Bengal astatine a expansive ceremonial astatine Brigade Parade Grounds connected Saturday (May 9, 2026). The elder BJP person was unanimously elected the person of the BJP Legislature Party successful the beingness of Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the party’s apical State leadership.
He has been 1 of the main architects for the saffron party’s emergence successful the State. The BJP swept the West Bengal Assembly Elections by winning 207 of 294 seats, ousting the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), which has been astatine the helm nether the enactment of Mamata Banerjee since 2011.
Along with Mr. Adhikari, 5 winning candidates of the BJP, shown successful the graphic below, were sworn into the State furniture arsenic well.
Of the 292 winning candidates, a party-wise investigation by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) showed that 152 of 206 winning candidates (74%) from the Bharatiya Janata Party person declared transgression cases, followed by 34 retired of 80 (43%) from the All India Trinamool Congress.
In all, 65% of the elected MLAs were recovered to person transgression cases against them.
(3) Which enactment rules which State/UT: India’s changing governmental footprint
The results of the recently-concluded Assembly elections successful 4 States (Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and Assam) and the Union Territory of Puducherry marked a displacement successful the governmental footprint of the state with changing governments successful 3 of the 5 contested regions.
The maps beneath amusement the changing governmental landscape. At contiguous the BJP oregon the NDA are governing 20 States and 2 Union Territories (Puducherry and Delhi), arsenic compared to governing 16 States and 1 UT (Puducherry) successful January 2024.
In the maps below, allies astatine the State-/UT-level are mentioned erstwhile either the BJP oregon Congress are a portion of the authorities formed. Thus, Sikkim — which is portion of the NDA — is marked arsenic ‘Other’ arsenic nary BJP campaigner has won a seat.
(4) Bengaluru has country’s highest termination complaint among metros
Bengaluru has recorded the country’s highest termination complaint among large metros
According to the National Crime Records Bureau’s Accidental Deaths and Suicides successful India (ADSI) reports, Bengaluru recorded implicit 2,313 suicides successful 2022, 2370 successful 2023 and 2430 successful 2024, with the city’s termination complaint remaining adjacent to 20 per lakh colonisation done the three-year period.
Delhi reported higher implicit termination numbers, crossing 3,204 cases successful 2024, but its termination complaint remained acold little — 9.8 — due to the fact that of its overmuch larger colonisation base.
Mental wellness experts person repeatedly linked municipality suicides to isolation, enactment pressure, migration stress, rising surviving costs and weakening societal enactment systems — each progressively associated with Bengaluru’s accelerated municipality expansion.
(5) Rise of cybercrimes successful 2024 successful the country
“During 2024, 72.6% of cybercrime cases registered were for the motive of fraud (73,987 retired of 1,01,928 cases) followed by intersexual exploitation with 3.1% (3,190 cases) and extortion with 2.5% (2,536 cases),” the study said.
