Polity & Governance
Constitutional bodies, Parliament, judiciary and governance reforms
Fair and square: On the Tamil Nadu Speaker, MLAs, disqualification proceedings
The Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Speaker has been conducting disqualification proceedings against Members of the Legislative Assembly who voted against th...
Himachal wants high level committee to assess financial impact; Punjab wants Special Category Status
At the 11th Governing Council Meeting of NITI Aayog (June 11, 2026), Himachal Pradesh demanded that a high-level committee be constituted to assess the finan...
Will remove AFSPA from Northeast barring one or two States next year: Shah
On June 11, 2026, the Central Government, along with the Governments of Assam and Nagaland, signed a tripartite MoU for joint oil and mineral exploration alo...
India grants retrospective custom duty relief on imports of select nuclear power generation equipment
The Union Government has granted retrospective customs duty relief on specified nuclear power generation equipment imported between April 1, 2019 and January...
Amit Shah announces potential AFSPA rollback next year; groundbreaking MoU paves way for energy self-reliance
A tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on June 11, 2026, among the Central Government, the Government of Assam, and the Government of Naga...
Historic 100% attendance at Niti meet, DKS breaks Karnataka boycott
For the first time since NITI Aayog's establishment in 2015, Chief Ministers of all 28 states attended the Governing Council meeting — a historic 100% attend...
Niti Aayog Governing Council meeting begins under PM’s chairmanship
The 11th Governing Council Meeting of NITI Aayog convened on June 11, 2026, at Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre, New Delhi, under the Prime Minister's chai...
BIS sets norms to protect indigenous seeds
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has published Indian Standard IS 20201:2026, a comprehensive management framework for Community Seed Banks (CSBs) across...
Adopt ‘targeted’ delimitation for 170 Lok Sabha seats: Economic Advisory Council to PM Modi
The Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) released a study recommending a targeted delimitation model that would increase Lok Sabha consti...
Entire NE, barring one or two states, may be out of AFSPA by next year: Shah
A tripartite MoU was signed on June 11, 2026, by the Central Government, Assam, and Nagaland for joint oil and mineral exploration along the disputed Assam-N...
'Homemakers are nation builders': For payout, SC pegs housewife ‘income’ at Rs 30,000 a month
A Supreme Court bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and N Kotiswar Singh ruled that homemakers must be recognised as "nation builders" and fixed a notional monthl...
PM advisory panel study chalks out targeted delimitation plan—split 170 LS seats to take total to 824
The Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) released a working paper recommending that India increase Lok Sabha constituencies from 543 to 8...
Calcutta HC questions expelled TMC MLA Ritabrata Banerjee’s appointment as LoP by Speaker
The Calcutta High Court questioned whether a state Assembly Speaker could recognise a Member of the Legislative Assembly as Leader of Opposition (LoP) after ...
Hospital bills, captive patients: Why CCI’s ruling may weaken consumer protection
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) closed abuse-of-dominance proceedings against 12 super-speciality hospitals in the Delhi-NCR region on May 21, 2026...
Reserve Bank of India (Commercial Banks – Credit Facilities) Third Amendment Directions, 2026
The Reserve Bank of India issued the RBI (Commercial Banks – Credit Facilities) Third Amendment Directions, 2026, on June 10, 2026, permitting scheduled comm...
The revolt within: Why Pakistan-occupied Jammu & Kashmir is restless again
Large-scale protests erupted across Pakistan-occupied Jammu & Kashmir (PoJK/AJK) in early June 2026, led by the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), a grassr...
Negotiating federalism in higher education
A significant governance debate is playing out in India's higher education sector: although education is constitutionally a Concurrent List subject, regulato...
Bristol, York and UNSW get approval to set up campuses in India
The Ministry of Education issued Letters of Permission (LoPs) to the University of Bristol, the University of York, and the University of New South Wales (UN...
Delhi High Court grants bail to Kashmir human-rights activist Khuram Parvez in UAPA case
The Delhi High Court (Division Bench: Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Ravinder Dudeja) on June 10, 2026 granted bail to Kashmiri human rights activist Khura...
Congress moves ECI against rejection of Meenakshi Natarajan's Rajya Sabha papers
A Congress Rajya Sabha nominee's nomination papers for a Madhya Pradesh seat were rejected by the Returning Officer (RO) on June 9, 2026, on grounds that she...