April 25, 2026
47 articles published on this date
India's Maritime Strategy Gaps Laid Bare by the West Asia Shipping Crisis
The ongoing conflict in West Asia triggered a severe shipping crisis in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, bringing into sharp focus long-standing...
NMBA 2.0 App Launched to Strengthen Real-Time Monitoring Under NAPDDR
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment launched the upgraded Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan (NMBA) 2.0 App on April 24, 2026, in Chandigarh during the...
Typhoid's Growing Drug Resistance: India's Public Health Challenge
Doctors and public health researchers have raised alarm over typhoid becoming progressively harder to treat in India, driven by the misuse of antibiotics...
NITI Aayog Framework for Million-Plus Cities: Directly Elected Mayors, Consolidated Services, and Fiscal Reforms
NITI Aayog released the report 'Moving Towards Effective City Government – A Framework for Million-plus Cities' on 25 April 2026 at India Habitat Centre...
NITI Aayog Reconstituted: New Vice-Chairman and Full-Time Members Appointed
The Union government reconstituted the NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India) with a near-complete change of full-time members; former...
DRDO Rolls Out Indigenous Vikram VT-21 Advanced Armoured Platforms
The Vehicles Research & Development Establishment (VRDE), a DRDO laboratory located in Ahilyanagar, Maharashtra, unveiled two prototype variants of the...
Startup India Fund of Funds 2.0: DPIIT Issues Operational Guidelines for ₹10,000 Crore Corpus
The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, has issued operational guidelines for the...
India's Coordinated Policy Response to West Asia Disruptions: Energy, Maritime, and Economic Stability
In response to the evolving situation in West Asia, the Government of India activated a coordinated inter-ministerial response spanning the energy...
DRDO Rolls Out Vikram VT-21 Advanced Armoured Platforms for Multi-Terrain Deployment
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) rolled out the first two prototypes of the Vikram VT-21 Advanced Armoured Platform (AAP) on April...
Manipur: Fresh Violence and Protests After Killing of Two Meitei Children
On April 7, 2026, a mortar/explosive attack on a house in Tronglaobi Awang Leikai village, Bishnupur district, Manipur, killed two children — a...
Anti-Defection Law: Constitutional Design and Its Practical Limits
The Tenth Schedule of the Indian Constitution, which governs anti-defection, has come under renewed scrutiny following a series of high-profile political...
AAP Rajya Sabha MPs' Merger with BJP: Anti-Defection Law and the Merger Test
Seven of the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) ten Rajya Sabha members announced their decision to merge with the Bharatiya Janata Party on 24 April 2026. The...
Law of the Sea: Transit Passage, Innocent Passage, and the Strait of Hormuz
The geopolitical and legal status of the Strait of Hormuz has come under scrutiny following tensions between Iran and the United States over freedom of...
Unified KYC Framework for India's Financial Sector: Push for SEBI-Led Standardisation
The Finance Ministry called for a single, unified Know Your Customer (KYC) framework across India's entire financial sector, asking SEBI to take the lead in...
Vikram-1: India's First Private Orbital Rocket Begins Journey to Launchpad
Vikram-1, India's first privately built orbital launch vehicle, was formally flagged off from Skyroot Aerospace's Max-Q campus in Hyderabad, Telangana, for...
NITI Aayog Reconstituted: New Vice-Chairman and Members Appointed
The Government reconstituted NITI Aayog in April 2026, appointing Ashok Kumar Lahiri as Vice-Chairman, replacing Suman Bery. Dr. M. Srinivas, Director of...
Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1: India's First Private Orbital Rocket Heads to Launchpad
Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 rocket was formally flagged off from its manufacturing facility (Max-Q campus) in Hyderabad on April 25, 2026, and dispatched...
Paytm Payments Bank Licence Cancelled: Regulatory Framework, Depositor Protection, and the Payments Bank Model
The Reserve Bank of India cancelled the banking licence of Paytm Payments Bank Limited effective April 24, 2026, citing that the bank's operations were...
NITI Aayog Reconstituted: New Vice Chairman and Four New Full-Time Members Appointed
The central government reconstituted the NITI Aayog, appointing veteran economist Ashok Kumar Lahiri as Vice Chairperson, replacing Suman Bery. Four new...
The Merger Clause in the Anti-Defection Law: From Free Speech Safeguard to Defection Shield
A recent constitutional controversy has brought fresh scrutiny to Paragraph 4 of the Tenth Schedule — the 'merger' exception to the anti-defection law — as...
Anti-Defection Law and the Merger Exception: AAP MPs' Move to BJP Tests the Tenth Schedule
Seven of the Aam Aadmi Party's ten Rajya Sabha MPs — including Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak, Ashok Mittal, Harbhajan Singh, Rajinder Gupta, Vikram Sahney...
Ashok Kumar Lahiri Appointed as NITI Aayog Vice-Chairperson
Ashok Kumar Lahiri, a former Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) to the Government of India, has been appointed as the Vice-Chairperson of NITI Aayog, replacing...
India's Genome Mapping Milestone: 44 Million Unique Genetic Variants Identified
The Genome India Project (GIP), coordinated by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, has completed the whole-genome sequencing of 10,000...
Chabahar Port at Crossroads as US Sanctions Waiver Expires
The US Treasury Department's sanctions waiver covering India's operations at Iran's Chabahar port expired on April 26, 2026, raising serious questions about...
RBI's Licence Cancellation of Paytm Payments Bank: Regulatory Signal and Financial Stability Implications
The RBI's cancellation of Paytm Payments Bank Limited's (PPBL) licence carries limited direct financial impact on its parent company (One97 Communications)...
US Congress Bill Proposes Three-Year Freeze on H-1B Visas
The 'End H-1B Visa Abuse Act of 2026' was introduced in the US House of Representatives, proposing a three-year suspension of new H-1B visa petitions while...
RBI Cancels Paytm Payments Bank Licence Under Banking Regulation Act
The Reserve Bank of India formally cancelled the banking licence of Paytm Payments Bank Limited on April 24, 2026, under Section 22(4) of the Banking...
Cybersecurity Risks to Financial Markets: AI-Led Threats, SEBI's Framework, and Systemic Vulnerabilities
At SEBI's 38th Foundation Day (April 25, 2026), the Union Finance Minister warned that a single successful cyberattack on a major stock exchange...
India-China Border Dispute: Revisiting the 1950s Territorial Swap Proposal
A former Chief of Army Staff, in a recent interview, advocated for reviving a late-1950s Chinese proposal suggesting India accept China's administrative...
DRDO Unveils Amphibious Battle Platforms with Crewless Turrets and Anti-Tank Capability
DRDO's Chairman unveiled two variants — tracked and wheeled — of advanced amphibious battle platforms at the Vehicle Research and Development Establishment...
Startup India Fund of Funds 2.0: DPIIT Operationalises ₹10,000 Crore Startup Capital Scheme
The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) issued detailed operational guidelines to operationalise the second tranche of the...
WHO Prequalifies First Malaria Treatment Designed for Newborns and Infants
The World Health Organization granted prequalification status to Coartem Baby (artemether-lumefantrine), the first antimalarial formulation specifically...
China Leads Global Nuclear Power with 125 GW Capacity and Ability to Build 50 Reactors Simultaneously
A blue book released by the China Nuclear Energy Association (CNEA) in April 2026 confirmed that China's total installed nuclear power capacity has reached...
Farmer Producer Organisations Under Stress: NAAS Policy Paper Calls for Targeted State Support
A policy paper by the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) has documented systemic challenges faced by Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs)...
CDSCO's Digital Drugs Regulatory System: Consolidating India's Drug Approval Architecture
The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) issued a Request for Proposal on April 13, 2026, to select a software provider for building a...
RBI Bulletin: India's Financial System and External Sector Hold Steady Amid Global Turbulence
The Reserve Bank of India's April 2026 Bulletin assessed that India's financial system and external sector remain resilient despite heightened global...
Climate-Resilient Farming in India: Bridging Traditional Wisdom and Technology Against Extreme Weather
As extreme weather events — droughts, unseasonal rains, heatwaves, and floods — grow more frequent and unpredictable, Indian agriculture faces an...
Strategic Petroleum Reserves: India's Energy Buffer Gap and the Strait of Hormuz Vulnerability
With the Strait of Hormuz blockade entering its 50th day (as of the article's context), global attention has turned to the adequacy of countries' strategic...
Tangail Saree GI Tag: How a Weaving Tradition Became a Diplomatic Flashpoint
A saree exhibition at Bangladesh's High Commission in New Delhi sparked diplomatic tension when India allegedly declined permission to use the Travancore...
SEBI at 38: Anticipatory Regulation, Unified KYC, and Capital Market Deepening
At SEBI's 38th Foundation Day event held in Mumbai on April 25, 2026, the Union Finance Minister delivered the keynote address calling for a fundamental...
Census 2027: Mapping Vulnerable Areas and Ensuring Impartial Enumeration
The Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India directed district magistrates and municipal commissioners to conduct a revenue village-wise exercise...
The Collapse of the Economics–Strategy Divide: Geoeconomics in the 21st Century
A CUTS International webinar under its 'Global Strategies in the Age of Geoeconomics' (G-SAGE) series highlighted how global economics and geopolitics have...
Legislative Merger Without Party Merger: The Constitutional Debate Over AAP MPs Joining BJP
Seven Rajya Sabha members of the Aam Aadmi Party, led by Raghav Chadha, announced their merger with the Bharatiya Janata Party on April 24, 2026, claiming...
India-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement Signed, Opening New Economic Chapter
India and New Zealand signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on April 27, 2026 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, following a meeting of the India-New Zealand...
Disqualification Petition Under the Tenth Schedule: Process, Adjudication, and Judicial Review
Following the announcement by seven Rajya Sabha members that they were leaving their original party and merging with another, the original party formally...
Kudankulam Nuclear Plant Unit 3 Reaches Key Pre-Commissioning Phase
Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) Unit 3 has commenced the 'spillage to open reactor' phase — a critical pre-commissioning activity. The phase involves...
US Treasury Signals End to Iranian and Russian Oil Sanctions Waivers
The US Treasury Secretary announced that the United States does not plan to renew a waiver that had allowed certain purchases of Russian petroleum products...