Polity & Governance
Constitutional bodies, Parliament, judiciary and governance reforms
Parliamentry panel summons NTA chief after NEET paper leak; reform in focus
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports summoned the Chairperson of the National Testing Agency (NTA) and the Se...
Suvendu govt ends religion-based schemes in Bengal, scraps state OBC list
The West Bengal state government has decided to discontinue all welfare schemes introduced by the previous administration that were based on religious catego...
Rail-led industrial corridors
India's Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation (DFCC) has fundamentally shifted the economics of freight movement by providing high-speed, high-capacity, ele...
Ordinance to up SC judges from 33 to 37 promulgated
The President promulgated the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Ordinance, 2026, notified in the Gazette of India on May 16, 2026. The ordinance ame...
RBI tightens scrutiny of overseas investments as outflows surge to $27 billion in FY26
Overseas Direct Investment (ODI) outflows from India — including equity infusions, loans, and invoked guarantees — climbed from approximately $14.5 billion i...
GNI project recipe for ecological disaster, expand existing defence assets on Great Nicobar: Jairam to Rajnath
Experts — including ecologists, geoscientists, and defence analysts — have described the proposed Holistic Development of Great Nicobar Island (GNI) as a rec...
Forest Rights and the Great Nicobar Mega-Project: The case before the Calcutta High Court
Three connected Public Interest Litigations (PILs) challenging Forest Rights Act violations in the Great Nicobar Island development project were admitted as ...
Online compliance to speed up environmental clearance for industrial expansion
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has made the Certified Compliance Report (CCR) process fully digital through the existing PAR...
Field Operations for Houselisting and Housing Census commences in Rajasthan, Meghalaya, Maharashtra, Jharkhand and MCD area of Delhi
House-to-house field operations for the Houselisting and Housing Census (HLO) — Phase I of Census 2027 — commenced on May 16, 2026, in Rajasthan, Meghalaya, ...
Ordinance issued to increase number of Supreme Court judges by 4
An ordinance was promulgated on May 17, 2026, amending the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Act, 1956, to increase the sanctioned strength of the apex court ...
Why PM Modi visited Netherlands’ Afsluitdijk dam: The Dutch model India may need
During the India-Netherlands bilateral visit in May 2026, the Indian Prime Minister toured the Afsluitdijk — the Netherlands' iconic 32-kilometre sea barrier...
NEET-UG | Test in turmoil
The National Testing Agency cancelled NEET-UG 2026 on May 12 — nine days after it was conducted on May 3 for 22.79 lakh candidates — following confirmation b...
Centre to roll out pilot programme for linking out-of-school adolescents to open school
The Union Ministry of Education convened a high-level meeting on May 16, 2026, chaired by the Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSEL),...
Chola-era Anaimangalam Plates, in possession of Leiden University since 1862, returned to India
The Chola-era Anaimangalam Copper Plates, held by Leiden University in the Netherlands since 1862, were formally handed over to India at a ceremony in The Ha...
NEET paper leak: CBI arrests Pune botany teacher who NTA appointed as expert
The Central Bureau of Investigation arrested Manisha Gurunath Mandhare, a botany teacher from Pune, in connection with the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak — bringing...
‘She was a very normal teacher’: CBI arrests another professor from Pune in NEET-UG paper leak case
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested a senior botany professor from Pune — who had been appointed as a domain expert by the National Testing Ag...
IWT: India rejects ‘so-called’ arbitration award as ‘null and void’
India rejected the 15 May 2026 award of the so-called Court of Arbitration on the Indus Waters Treaty, describing the tribunal as "illegally constituted" and...
CBI arrests ‘mastermind’ linked to NEET-UG 2026 biology paper leak
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested a Pune-based botany teacher — appointed by the National Testing Agency as a subject-matter expert and dire...
Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance, India rejects latest arbitration award as ‘null & void’
On 15 May 2026, the Court of Arbitration constituted under the Indus Waters Treaty issued an award related to the Kishanganga and Ratle hydroelectric project...
NEET-UG paper leak: Doctors’ body moves Supreme Court to make NTA a statutory body accountable to Parliament
Following the cancellation of NEET-UG 2026 after a confirmed paper leak, the United Doctors Front (UDF) filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court under Arti...