Polity & Governance
Constitutional bodies, Parliament, judiciary and governance reforms
Political parties firm on moving education back to State list, retaining two-language formula
Multiple political parties, particularly from southern states, have reiterated their demand that "Education" be moved from the Concurrent List back to the St...
India to decide women's quota bill as row over parliamentary seats intensifies
Southern Indian states have launched mass mobilisation against the Union government's proposal to link the operationalisation of women's reservation in Parli...
Kargil bloc rejects Ladakh territorial council, sticks to statehood, Sixth Schedule
The Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) formally rejected the Centre's proposed "Ladakh Territorial Council" model, reiterating its demand for full statehood an...
'Delimitation won’t be based on 2011 census': Seats in all states to rise 50%, govt to tell Lok Sabha today
The government clarified on April 15, 2026, that the upcoming delimitation exercise will not be conducted on the basis of the 2011 Census — countering opposi...
Opposition: Will oppose delimitation, it cuts share of south, NE
The INDIA bloc opposition alliance declared it will oppose the proposed Delimitation Bill in Parliament, warning that population-based delimitation will disp...
Know the Articles which three proposed Bills will amend
The 2026 legislative package — consisting of the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, the Delimitation Bill, and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill ...
Door-to-door house listing of Census 2027 to begin across Karnataka on April 16
Door-to-door house listing — the first phase of Census 2027 — commenced across Karnataka on April 16, 2026, making it one of the first states to begin field ...
We support CM’s stand on delimitation: Shanmugam
AIADMK leader C Shanmugam stated that the party supports the Chief Minister's stand on delimitation, signalling alignment with Tamil Nadu's opposition to the...
Devious menace: On predatory loan apps
Predatory digital loan applications continue to operate in regulatory grey zones, exploiting gaps between formal banking regulation and the informal fintech ...
Allahabad High Court flags lodging of ‘fake FIRs’ under anti-conversion law in Uttar Pradesh
The Allahabad High Court raised serious concerns about the misuse of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021, noting that ...
Telangana SEEEPC survey, IEWG analysis shows SCs/STs three times more backward than others
The Telangana government publicly released the findings of the Independent Expert Working Group (IEWG) analysis of the Socio-Economic, Educational, Employmen...
Placing women at the core of democracy
An analytical opinion piece published on April 15 examines the structural challenge of implementing women's reservation in India: the law exists on paper sin...
Implications of increasing the size of the Lok Sabha
Analysts and parliamentarians have raised substantive questions about the implications of expanding the Lok Sabha from 543 to 850 seats — a 57% increase — be...
Chhattisgarh cabinet forms committee to prepare UCC draft
The Chhattisgarh cabinet approved the formation of a high-level committee — headed by retired Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai — to prepare a draft Uniform Civi...
Bageshwar Dham gets government nod to receive foreign funds
Bageshwar Dham, a prominent religious establishment in Madhya Pradesh led by Pandit Dhirendra Krishna Shastri, received government approval to accept foreign...
Women’s Reservation Bill will be passed, opposers will be exposed, says A.P. CM
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu wrote letters to leaders of various political parties and Members of Parliament — including both Rajya Sab...
All States will have their number of Lok Sabha seats increase by 50% after delimitation: Official
A senior government functionary stated on April 15, 2026, that all states will see their Lok Sabha seat count increase by at least 50% after delimitation — m...
BJP trying to ‘gerrymander’ all Lok Sabha constituencies in ‘anti-national’ act: Rahul
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi accused the BJP of attempting to "gerrymander" all Lok Sabha constituencies through the proposed Delimitation Bill — calling it ...
Tamil Nadu's spiral: From welfare to freebies
Tamil Nadu's governance model, long associated with welfare provisioning, is facing growing scrutiny as the line between public welfare investments and unsus...
BRS, YSRCP punch a hole in Centre's delimitation move
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K.T. Rama Rao (KTR) strongly opposed the Delimitation Bill 2026, warning that a population-based delimitation ...