Polity & Governance
Constitutional bodies, Parliament, judiciary and governance reforms
From burnt cash to possibly the first impeachment of a judge: The Yashwant Varma saga explained
A fire at a judge's official residence in March 2025 led to the discovery of large quantities of burnt currency in an outhouse/storeroom, triggering an in-ho...
Cauvery water row: Supreme Court to hear Tamil Nadu plea against Karnataka on August 17
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a plea by the Tamil Nadu government on 17 August 2026 seeking directions to the Karnataka government for the immediate...
PM Modi puts women's quota back on table, makes fresh pitch to opposition
A renewed appeal for cross-party political consensus was made to operationalise the 33% women's reservation in the Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies...
CAG audit flags major gaps in Green India Mission implementation
A performance audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) found that the National Mission for Green India (GIM) achieved only a fraction of its forest...
Odisha: BJD plans legal action, public demonstrations against Mines and Minerals (Amendment) Bill
State-level opposition has emerged in Odisha against the recently passed Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, with plans for...
Rajasthan to introduce Uniform Civil Code, CM Bhajanlal Sharma announces
The Rajasthan Government announced that it is working toward introducing a state Uniform Civil Code (UCC), describing the move as being "in the spirit" of Ar...
How will caste be recorded in second phase of Census 2027? | Explained
The Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India (RGCCI) notified 40 questions for the household schedule to be used in the second phase (Population En...
Department of Atomic Energy releases draft rules of SHANTI Act
The Department of Atomic Energy released draft rules under the SHANTI Act, 2025 for public and stakeholder consultation The draft rules require nuclear opera...
What is the latest Mining Amendment Act about? | Explained
Parliament passed the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, amending the parent MMDR Act, 1957. The Bill inserts a new provis...
Caste, COVID vaccine, bank accounts, voter/aadhaar: The big changes in census 2027
The Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India (RGCCI) notified a 40-question household schedule for the population enumeration phase of Census 2027....
Independence Day 2026: PM Modi appeals to Oppn. to help implement women quota, says ‘you may take the credit’
In the Independence Day address delivered from the Red Fort, a call was made for political consensus to operationalise the 33% reservation for women in the L...
Telangana SIR: Botched-up enumeration phase leaves 94 lakh electors at the mercy of 119 EROs
The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is underway in Telangana, with the enumeration phase reported to have left a very short adjudication ...
40 queries in Census Phase-II: Caste, bank accounts, Covid jabs...
The Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India has notified a roughly 40-question format for the Population Enumeration (second) phase of Census 2027...
Supreme Court urges Kuki, Meitei groups to make peace, remove blockade on highways
A three-judge Supreme Court bench, in a writ petition filed by the Kuki Women Organisation for Human Rights against the State of Manipur, heard submissions o...
Caste Census 2027: Full list of questions to be asked in the second phase of Census
The Population Enumeration (PE) phase — the second and main phase of Census 2027 — will record caste identity for every resident, not only Scheduled Castes a...
Mines, minerals bill gets nod, draws fire from Jharkhand, Kerala
Parliament passed the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, with the Lok Sabha clearing it first and the Rajya Sabha passing ...
Census 2027 to have 40 questions, including details of caste, COVID vaccination, ID proofs
The questionnaire for Census 2027 has been finalised, covering close to 40 questions to be asked of households, including caste details, COVID-19 vaccination...
Swachh Bharat Mission: Liquid waste management covers 5.63 lakh villages
Liquid waste management infrastructure under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) now covers 5.63 lakh villages The programme is expanding beyond individual/c...
The constitutional limits on arrest
The Supreme Court reinforced safeguards against arbitrary arrest, holding that a person taken into custody must be informed of the grounds of arrest. The Cou...
Debt grows slower than GDP, CAG says; revenue lapses persist
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) reported that government debt continues to grow at a slower pace than GDP, keeping debt servicing on a sustainable ...