Polity & Governance
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Parliament to take up SC judges, exam reform bills today
The Lok Sabha took up the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Bill, 2026 for consideration on the day's agenda. The Rajya Sabha simultaneously took up...
Supreme Court bars government from post facto green clearance to projects
The Supreme Court quashed the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change's 2021 Office Memorandum (OM) that had laid down a Standard Operating Proced...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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) ...
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, ...
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...
Centre may table bill to make deepfakes, digital arrest separate offences
The government indicated that a draft bill is being prepared to make "digital arrest" scams and AI-generated deepfakes distinct, standalone criminal offences...
Delimitation in mind, UP plans new assembly complex in Lucknow to accommodate a 900-member legislature
Uttar Pradesh is planning a new legislative complex in Lucknow designed to accommodate up to 700 Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) and 200 Members o...