Polity & Governance
Constitutional bodies, Parliament, judiciary and governance reforms
Under pressure, Karnataka to revise internal quota of SC communities
Under political pressure from Dalit community groups, the Karnataka government has decided to revise the internal distribution of the 17% Scheduled Caste (SC...
Kashmir under tight curbs amid Khamenei protests
Widespread protests erupted across Kashmir following the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a joint US-Israel airstrike, prompting au...
West Asia crisis: MEA establishes control room to assist Indians
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced the establishment of a Special Control Room on March 4, 2026, to assist Indian nationals in West Asia and th...
Ravi Shankar to head Lok Sabha privileges panel
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla constituted the Committee of Privileges and nominated Ravi Shankar Prasad (BJP MP, Patna Sahib) as its Chairperson on March 3, 202...
Centre sanctions Rs 3,942 crore to boost digital connectivity in Chhattisgarh: CM Sai
The Centre sanctioned Rs 3,942 crore to Chhattisgarh under the Amended BharatNet Programme for rural digital connectivity. The funds will connect 11,682 gram...
6L kids born with anomalies per year but no national registry to track them
India records approximately 6 lakh (600,000) babies born with congenital anomalies every year, contributing roughly 16% of global deaths linked to birth defe...
1 in 3 auctioned coal blocks miss operational deadlines
RTI data reveals that of 98 coal blocks scheduled to become operational by end-2025, only 55 are currently producing coal — meaning roughly 1 in 3 auctioned ...
BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad to head Lok Sabha’s Privileges Committee
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla nominated BJP's Ravi Shankar Prasad — a senior advocate and former Union Law Minister — as Chairperson of the Committee of Privile...
D.K. Shivakumar urges Karnataka MPs to put pressure on Centre to seek approval to raise Almatti dam height
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar has urged Karnataka's Members of Parliament to pressure the Central Government to approve the proposal to rai...
Stalin thanks Siddaramaiah for Karnataka’s support to call for renewed national conversation on Union-State relations
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has thanked Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for endorsing the Tamil Nadu government's initiative calling for a re...
Aligning religious tourism with ecology
A recent opinion piece examines the growing conflict between India's booming religious tourism sector and the ecological fragility of pilgrimage destinations...
IBC represents legislative choice to privilege speed over exhaustive judicial scrutiny: Supreme Court judgment
The Supreme Court of India delivered a significant judgment affirming that the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), 2016 represents a "conscious legislative...
Rural jobs scheme workers flag glitches in monitoring app
Workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) have raised persistent complaints about glitches in the National Mobile...
Privileges Committee of Lok Sabha formed, Ravi Shankar Prasad nominated as chairperson
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla constituted the Committee of Privileges of the 18th Lok Sabha, nominating BJP leader and former Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Pr...
NDAP overhaul in works to handle surge in big data
The National Data and Analytics Platform (NDAP), managed by NITI Aayog, is undergoing a major technical overhaul to address an accelerating surge in governme...
How Bombay HC ruling on fee payment highlights Right to Education guarantee, its scope
The Bombay High Court ruled that schools cannot expel students or deny them education — including by issuing a transfer certificate — for non-payment of fees...
Karnataka Dalit Sangarsha Samithi demands return of SCSP-TSP funds diverted to guarantee schemes; to stage Bengaluru Chalo on March 11
The Karnataka Dalit Sangarsha Samithi demanded that funds diverted from the Scheduled Caste Sub Plan (SCSP) and Tribal Sub Plan (TSP) be returned to their in...
India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders
The Supreme Court of India has categorized the citation of AI-generated fake court precedents as a serious form of judicial misconduct — the first time the a...
BJP names two from eastern Assam as RS poll candidates
The BJP named two candidates from eastern Assam for the Biennial Election to the Council of States (Rajya Sabha) from Assam. The nominations were made by the...
Inter-Ministerial Group set up to boost supply chain resilience amid West Asia tension
The government constituted an 'Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) for Supply Chain Resilience' to monitor the escalating West Asia conflict and its impact on Indi...