The News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority cautioned NDTV against using the term “thook jihad” in a generalised and stereotypical manner after a programme depicted a cook allegedly spitting on rotis.“Thook jihad” or spit jihad is a Hindutva conspiracy theory that claims that Muslims deliberately spit into food to spread disease among Hindus.A complaint about the broadcast had been registered with the news regulator in December 2024 about a widely circulated video from Meerut that purportedly showed a man spitting on rotis as he made them. NDTV described the claimed incident as “thook jihad” and allegedly suggested that similar acts were being reported from other places.The channel said that it had voluntarily removed the video. It claimed that the word “jihad” was not intended to attribute the act to any particular community. However, the regulator rejected the argument, adding that the term itself carried an implicit meaning. Read on.Hindutva has found a new target – “gym jihad”, writes Sneha.The Bharatiya Janata Party government in Assam introduced a bill on the Uniform Civil Code in the Assembly seeking to ban polygamy and make registration of live-in relationships compulsory.The bill is slated to be taken up for discussion on Wednesday.The bill proposes to make it mandatory for live-in relationships to be registered within one month. Failing to register a live-in relationship within one month may lead to imprisonment of up to three months or a fine of up to Rs 10,000.According to the draft legislation, the minimum age of marriage would be 18 years for women and 21 years for men. The legislation will also make the registration of marriages and divorces mandatory “to prevent fraud”.On Sunday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah had asserted that the provisions of the Uniform Civil Code will not apply to Adivasis and will not encroach upon the rights of Scheduled Tribe communities. He claimed that there was a “conspiracy underway to send out the message that UCC will take away tribal communities’ traditions and way of life”. Read on.Petrol and diesel prices were increased for the fourth time in two weeks, with fuel rates going up by an average of Rs 2.8 per litre across the country. In Delhi, the price of petrol increased by Rs 2.61 to reach Rs 102.12 per litre, while diesel increased by Rs 2.71 to Rs 95.20 per litre.Petrol rates in Mumbai reached Rs 111.21 per litre and diesel went up to Rs 97.83 per litre. Kolkata recorded the highest petrol price among the four metros at Rs 113.51 per litre, while rates in Chennai stood at Rs 107.77 per litre for petrol and Rs 99.55 per litre for diesel.Commenting on the fuel price hike, Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi quipped on social media: “Inflation man Modi strikes again”. Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge said that “every fuel price hike is another blow to household budgets, and has a cascading effect on every aspect of the economy”. Read on.The Supreme Court issued notice asking the National Testing Agency to respond to a batch of petitions on the alleged paper leak in the 2026 undergraduate National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for medical college seats.The court said that the authority seemed to have not learnt any lessons from the past.The bench sought a status report from the agency on the steps it had taken as per the recommendations of a committee set up in 2024 following similar allegations of a paper leak.A petition has sought a panel chaired by a retired judge, along with a cybersecurity expert and a forensic scientist, to supervise the re-exam that will be held on June 21. A separate plea argued that the National Testing Agency lacked direct parliamentary accountability and sought a direction to the Union government to replace it with a statutory authority. Read on.If you haven’t already, sign up for our Daily Brief newsletter.