Polity & Governance
Constitutional bodies, Parliament, judiciary and governance reforms
Peace with peace: On preventive detentions
An editorial analysis highlighted the persistent misuse of preventive detention laws by state governments across India, where detention powers meant for genu...
SC notice to Centre, Punjab over failure to implement RTE
The Supreme Court issued notice to the Central Government and the Government of Punjab after a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) alleged that the Right to Chi...
Delimitation Bill to return with 50% seat increase clause, says Naidu
The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister confirmed that the NDA government will reintroduce the Delimitation Bill with a clause ensuring a 50% proportional increase...
New valuation rules seek fairer outcomes in bankruptcy cases
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) issued a circular on June 15, 2026 — "Guidelines for Conducting Valuation Under the Insolvency and Bankru...
No govt, no OTS deal can curtail citizen’s right to move court: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled that no government scheme and no One-Time Settlement (OTS) deal can curtail a citizen's fundamental right to approach a court under A...
20 rebel TMC MPs to merge with Nationalist Citizens Party, back NDA: Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar
A group of Members of Parliament have publicly declared their intention to merge with another political party — a constitutional action that, if executed, wo...
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...
Rebel TMC MPs announce merger with Nationalist Citizens Party, seek separate seating in Lok Sabha
A group of 20 Lok Sabha MPs from Trinamool Congress announced a merger with the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI), a registered party with no existi...
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...