Polity & Governance
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President Murmu nominates Harivansh Narayan Singh to Rajya Sabha
President Droupadi Murmu nominated Harivansh Narayan Singh to the Rajya Sabha through a Gazette notification issued on April 10, 2026 His previous term as a ...
Cash recovery row: Justice Yashwant Varma resigns amid impeachment process; what is the case about
Justice Yashwant Varma of the Allahabad High Court submitted his resignation to the President of India on April 9, 2026, ending nearly a year-long controvers...
Nitin Nabin chairs BJP meeting on Women's Reservation Bill ahead of special parliament session
BJP national president Nitin Nabin chaired nationwide meetings of party functionaries to strategise outreach on the Women's Reservation Bill ahead of a speci...
'Forced into Ukraine war': SC asks Centre to respond to habeas corpus plea of 26 Indians stranded in Russia
The Supreme Court of India has issued notice to the Union Government directing a response within one week to a habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of 26 I...
'BJP to bring UCC in 6 months': Amit Shah pitches common civil law in Bengal
Union Home Minister Amit Shah released BJP's election manifesto ("Sankalp Patra") for the West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026, promising implementation of th...
Utkarsh 2029 – Reserve Bank of India’s Medium-term Strategy Framework for 2026-29
The Reserve Bank of India released its medium-term strategy framework "Utkarsh 2029" on April 10, 2026, covering the period April 2026 to March 2029. Utkarsh...
RBI invites public comments on the draft Amendment Directions on review of methodology for identification of NBFC-UL and inclusion of Government owned NBFCs in NBFC-UL
The Reserve Bank of India released draft amendment directions on April 10, 2026, proposing significant changes to the Scale-Based Regulation (SBR) framework ...
MP tribal women on 'funeral pyres' oppose river linking
On April 9, 2026, thousands of tribal women and children from Chhatarpur district in Madhya Pradesh laid down on symbolic funeral pyres along the Ken River t...
Draft master plan: Tourism, infra push for greenfield city on Great Nicobar Island
A draft master plan for Great Nicobar Island has been released, detailing a major push for tourism infrastructure and a planned greenfield city as part of th...
Explained: In clashes between police and tribals in Odisha, the issue of bauxite mining
Violent clashes erupted on April 7, 2026, in Sagabari village, Kashipur block, Rayagada district, Odisha, when police used force to disperse tribal protester...
UNESCO cites India’s regional OTT content push as example for others, but warns of AI ‘policy gap’
A UNESCO report has credited India's growth in cultural exports to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting's (MIB) push requiring OTT platforms to produ...
Karnataka Information Commission riled over government not recovering penalty from salary of officials denying info under RTI Act
The Karnataka Information Commission (KIC) has expressed strong displeasure over the state government's failure to recover RTI penalties from the salaries of...
India mulls payment lags, checks for senior citizens as digital fraud rises, RBI paper shows
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released a discussion paper proposing a suite of measures to tackle the sharp rise in digital payment frauds, including manda...
From hiding to hope: Bastar and its surrendered Maoists
Chhattisgarh's Bastar region has witnessed a historic wave of Maoist surrenders over the past two years, with over 2,714 cadres returning to the mainstream —...
Centre notifies CAPF Act after President’s assent
The Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Act, 2026 received Presidential assent from President Droupadi Murmu and was subsequently published ...
‘Centre trying to deny SC status to Dalit Christians’
The central legal controversy over Scheduled Caste (SC) status for Dalit Christians intensified in April 2026, with community groups and political leaders in...
Follow the rituals and practices of a temple or stay out, says Supreme Court
The nine-judge Constitution Bench hearing the Sabarimala review reference continued on April 9, 2026, with the Supreme Court articulating the position that d...
NIA may probe the killing of two Meitei children in Manipur; attackers unidentified
A bomb attack on April 7, 2026, in Bishnupur district's Moirang Tronglaobi village killed two young Meitei children (a five-year-old boy and his infant siste...
Centre saves ₹55,000 crore as FY26 spending undershoots estimates
The central government's actual spending in FY26 (April 2025 – March 2026) fell short of the Revised Estimates (RE) by approximately ₹55,000 crore — a signif...
Work on Dhoudan dam stalled for fifth day as protests continue
Construction work on the Dhoudan (Daudhan) Dam under the Ken-Betwa River Linking Project (KBLP) — India's first inter-basin river linking project — stalled f...