Polity & Governance
Constitutional bodies, Parliament, judiciary and governance reforms
Why Ladakh’s agreement with Centre has hit a roadblock
Negotiations between the Central Government and Ladakh's representative bodies — the Leh Apex Body (LAB) and the Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) — over Lada...
Rebel TMC MPs merge with Nationalist Citizens Party, to ‘collaborate with NDA’: Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar
A rebel faction of Lok Sabha MPs, expelled from a regional party, formally notified the Lok Sabha Speaker of their merger with a lesser-known registered part...
Abhishek Banerjee urges Lok Sabha Speaker to deny any status to rebel camp: TMC ‘is single, indivisible’ party
Following a rebel faction of Lok Sabha MPs announcing a merger with an outside registered party, the parent party's leadership formally wrote to the Lok Sabh...
Market Coupling Operator proposed for power trading: Sole MCO plan gets pushback from Grid India, IEX
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has proposed the Draft CERC (Power Market) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2026, seeking to introduce ma...
Supreme Court wants cases of SIR excluded to be decided before next polls. A reality check from Assam
The Supreme Court directed that cases of persons excluded from electoral rolls during Assam's Special Revision (SR) exercise should be adjudicated before the...
Rajasthan: In-principle clearance for coal block in Hasdeo-Arand
The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change granted Stage-I (in-principle) clearance for diversion of ap...
Lt Gen Dhiraj Seth appointed new Army chief, first Armoured Corps officer in top post since 1997
Lt Gen Dhiraj Seth (PVSM, UYSM, AVSM), serving as Vice Chief of Army Staff, was appointed as the 31st Chief of Army Staff (COAS), effective from the afternoo...
First batch of NDA-trained women cadets commissioned as officers
The Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dehradun, commissioned the first-ever batch of women officer cadets in its history at the June 2026 Passing Out Parade (Po...
In first post-Naxal investment push, Chhattisgarh receives proposals worth Rs 9,580 crore
Following the declaration of India as free from organised Naxal activity on March 30, 2026, Chhattisgarh held an Investors Connect event in Hyderabad on June...
Why did the SC quantify labour of homemakers? | Explained
The Supreme Court, in *Shishu Pal @ Shish Ram & Ors. v. Surjeet & Ors.* (2026 INSC 634), pronounced a landmark judgment expanding compensation law for homema...
Samiti calls for annual observance of Article 371(J) Day across seven districts of Kalyana Karnataka
The Kalyana Karnataka Horata Samiti convened a meeting and resolved to observe an annual "Article 371(J) Day" across the seven districts of the Kalyana Karna...
Why are there protests in PoK? | Explained
Mass protests erupted in Pakistan-administered Kashmir (also called Azad Jammu and Kashmir / AJK) in 2026, led primarily by the Joint Awami Action Committee ...
Coal Minister Reddy flags disappearance of 40 lakh tonnes of coal; seeks urgent probe into SCCL
Union Coal Minister G. Kishan Reddy wrote to Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on June 10, 2026, flagging news reports that 40 lakh tonnes of coal wo...
Demographic panel to visit metros, industrial & border areas to study population changes
The Union Home Ministry constituted a high-level committee, chaired by retired Supreme Court Judge Justice Prakash Prabhakar Naolekar, to examine "unnatural ...
After Mum birthday cake ordeal, pins & wires in food banned
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) issued a nationwide advisory on June 12, 2026, directing all food business operators (FBOs) to immed...
Andhra CM directs officials to prioritise restoration, development of chain-linked tanks
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu directed officials to give top priority to the restoration and development of chain-linked tanks under the...
13th BRICS Urbanisation Forum concludes with adoption of Declaration on inclusive and resilient urban futures
The 13th BRICS Urbanisation Forum concluded at Sushma Swaraj Bhavan, New Delhi, under India's 2026 BRICS Chairship, with the adoption of the 'Delhi Declarati...
Govt limits diesel sales to 200 litres per vehicle in a day, bars bulk users to buy through petrol pumps
The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas issued the Motor Spirit and High Speed Diesel (Temporary Regulation of Supply through Retail Outlets) Order, 2026 o...
Govt bars bulk industrial petrol, diesel purchases through petrol pumps
The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas issued the Motor Spirit and High Speed Diesel (Temporary Regulation of Supply through Retail Outlets) Order, 2026 o...
'No writs after polls begin': Supreme Court rejects Meenakshi Natarajan's plea
The Supreme Court dismissed a writ petition challenging the rejection of a Rajya Sabha nomination from Madhya Pradesh, ruling that courts cannot entertain su...