The eviction of an 87-year-old woman from her Madrid apartment has become a symbol of Spain's worsening housing emergency. With rents rising faster than wages, a shortage of affordable homes and growing anger against property investors, the crisis has now pushed Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to call an early general election. Key Highlights Spain faces an estimated housing shortage of around 750,000 homes, which could exceed one million by 2028, according to projections cited

The Supreme Court has upheld the quashing of Tamil Nadu's policy allowing certain converts to Islam to obtain Backward Class Muslim certificates. Here's what the October 15 judgment says about caste, religious conversion, reservation eligibility and constitutional limits.