July 29, 2026
32 articles published on this date
No district affected by Naxalism anymore: Ministry of home affairs
The Ministry of Home Affairs' comprehensive security review, completed after March 31, 2026, established that no district in the country now falls under the ...
Navy launches ASW shallow watercraft Machilipatnam at Cochin shipyard
Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) launched Machilipatnam, the seventh of eight Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW SWC) being built for the Indian Na...
India getting ready for Xi, Putin visits in September
India is preparing to host the BRICS Summit in New Delhi on September 12-13, 2026, during its rotational BRICS chairmanship year. Chinese President Xi Jinpin...
India’s rice yields could fall 6.6% for every 1°C rise in global temperature
A study published in the journal *Science Advances* estimates that India's rice yields could fall by 6.6% for every 1°C rise in global mean temperature, more...
Vande Mataram Bill 2026 explained: What changes and what punishment it proposes
The Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Bill, 2026 — popularly termed the "Vande Mataram Bill" — was passed by Parliament, extending statuto...
India's mobile phone exports jump 165-fold in a decade to ₹2.59 lakh crore: Govt
The government informed Parliament that India's mobile phone exports have risen roughly 165-fold over the past decade, from about ₹1,500 crore in 2014-15 to ...
GST rollout boosted state tax revenues, buoyancy, says India Ratings
A study by India Ratings (Ind-Ra) found that state tax revenue buoyancy rose sharply after the rollout of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), based on a compar...
Cochin Shipyard launches anti-submarine warfare ship for Indian Navy
Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) launched Machilipatnam, the seventh of eight Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW SWC) being built for the Indian Na...
IN-SPACe issues guidelines for planned re-entry of space objects
IN-SPACe (Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre) issued a dedicated set of norms, guidelines and procedures for the "planned re-entry of s...
Rahul Gandhi's remarks on student protests trigger Parliament showdown: What happened next
Lok Sabha passed the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026, amending the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act...
What’s the Cauvery dispute and how does the Mekedatu dam feature in it?
The long-running dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu over sharing of the Cauvery river's waters has resurfaced in connection with Karnataka's proposed M...
Lok Sabha passes coal mines bill
Parliament passed the Coal Mines (Special Provisions) Bill to provide a legal mechanism for reallocating coal blocks whose earlier allocations had been struc...
Coal block allocations since 1993 illegal: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court held that the allocation of coal blocks by the Central Government since 1993 lacked a fair and transparent procedure and was arbitrary and ...
Rethinking conservation: India needs a new framework for conserving tigers
Conservation scientists have proposed shifting India's tiger conservation strategy away from maximising raw population counts toward managing tigers at ecolo...
Rethinking conservation: Why India’s approach to conserving tigers is essentially flawed
Wildlife experts have flagged structural flaws in India's tiger conservation approach, arguing that the focus on maximising tiger population counts has outpa...
Supreme Court quashes allocation of 214 coal blocks
The Supreme Court quashed the allocation of 214 out of 218 coal blocks allotted by the Central Government between 1993 and 2011, holding the allocation proce...
Rethinking conservation: There is a boom in India’s tigers and most of it is outside protected areas
The National Tiger Conservation Authority's "Status of Tigers 2022" report shows about 23% of India's tiger population (847 of 3,682 tigers) now lives outsid...
Bill to make delayed registration of births and deaths more stringent introduced in Lok Sabha
The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2026 was introduced in the Lok Sabha amid opposition protests The Bill was cleared for introduction b...
U.S. Senate advances sanctions bill targeting Russian-Iranian oil buyers, including India and China
The U.S. Senate voted 86-12 to advance the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, a bipartisan sanctions bill named for the late Senator ...
Lok Sabha grants extension to panel on ‘One Nation One Election’ till Winter Session
The Lok Sabha adopted a resolution extending the reporting deadline of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) examining the "One Nation, One Election" bills...
Cauvery committee chief asks Tamil Nadu, Karnataka to come up with distress-sharing formula
The Chairman of the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC), Vineet Gupta, called on Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to work out a distress-sharing formula for ye...
Gender integration in India’s uniformed services: The Coast Guard catches up
The Indian Coast Guard has moved to extend Permanent Absorption and associated retirement benefits (including pension) to women officers, aligning its policy...
New anti-paper leak bill passed in Lok Sabha amid Opposition uproar
The Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026, was introduced in Lok Sabha and passed by voice vote. The amendment raises the pre...
Supreme Court quashes 2021 OM allowing ex post facto environmental clearance, but upholds Centre’s power to provide ‘amnesty schemes’
The Supreme Court quashed the 2021 Office Memorandum (OM) that had permitted the Centre and other authorities to grant ex post facto (retrospective) environm...
India’s carbon market targets too weak to drive industrial transformation: Report
An independent climate policy analysis has assessed India's Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS) and concluded that its current emission-intensity targets are...
Lavender helps Jammu and Kashmir farmers adapt to a warmer, drier climate
Lavender cultivation, promoted under CSIR's "Aroma Mission" and popularly called the "Purple Revolution," is expanding across Jammu & Kashmir as a low-water,...
One Nation One Election panel gets Winter Session extension to submit report
The Lok Sabha approved a resolution extending the deadline for the parliamentary committee examining the "One Nation, One Election" (simultaneous elections) ...
Misir Besra, the last remaining Maoist leader, arrested in Jharkhand
Misir Besra, a member of both the central committee and politburo of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), was arrested in a joint operation by Jharkhand Po...
Is Yashwant Varma still a judge?
A three-member in-house inquiry committee, constituted after unaccounted cash was found at the official residence of a Delhi High Court judge in March 2025, ...
Dealers can't keep over 400 tonne stock of sugar: Government
The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution imposed a stock limit on sugar dealers, restricting them from holding more than 4,000 quintals...
Amit Shah to move birth registration bill; Rahul Gandhi to target government on exam leaks in Lok Sabha today
The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2026 was introduced in Lok Sabha to further amend Section 13(3) of the Registration of Births and Dea...
Centre notifies 7th draft for ecological zones in Western Ghats
The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) issued its seventh draft notification proposing to declare approximately 56,825 sq km o...