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India’s poorest ration-card holders may see cereal quota tied to family size under new draft law
The Department of Food and Public Distribution has released a draft National Food Security (Amendment) Bill, 2026, proposing to replace the flat 35 kg per ho...
Centre extends MSP procurement deadline in UP to July 8, approves over 6.18 lakh rural houses
The Union government extended the Minimum Support Price (MSP) procurement deadline for rabi crops — wheat, gram (chana), and masoor (lentils) — in Uttar Prad...
Secretary, Rural Development Chairs High-Level Inter-Ministerial Consultation on Convergence Framework under VB–G RAM G Act, 2025
The Secretary, Department of Rural Development chaired a high-level inter-ministerial consultation on Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G), focusing o...
Foreign funding reboot: How govt has tightened FCRA rules
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) notified the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Rules, 2026 on June 22, 2026 — the tenth amendment to the FCRA Ru...
Why government has tightened FCRA rules, and put religious conversion in focus
The Ministry of Home Affairs notified the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Rules, 2026 on June 22, 2026, introducing the most significant overhaul...
What constitutes a ‘workplace’ under POSH Act?
A High Court judgment delivered on June 16, 2026 set aside the findings of an Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) against an employee of the State Bank of In...
Fields of work by foreign-funded NGOs outlined, proselytisation excluded
The Ministry of Home Affairs notified amended Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Rules, 2026, introducing for the first time a comprehensive schedule that lis...
315 districts mapped for contingency measures to rescue farming operation as rain deficit rises to 43%
The Union government has drawn up district-level contingency plans for 315 districts identified as vulnerable to a weak monsoon, as the 2026 kharif season be...
FCRA Rules tightened: NGOs must declare social media accounts, stick to specified activities; political content barred
The Central Government has amended the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Rules under the FCRA, 2010, introducing several new compliance requirements for NGOs...
Indian children among most exposed to extreme heat, drought, and multiple climate hazards: UNICEF Report
The UNICEF Children's Climate Risk Report 2026, released on 16 June 2026, identifies Indian children as among the world's most exposed to extreme heat, droug...
India prepares contingency plans for 315 districts as monsoon falters
The Union Ministry of Agriculture has mapped 315 districts across twelve states — including Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh — as vulnerable to...
Shah directs Nafed, NCCF to eliminate middlemen, buy pulses and oilseeds directly from farmers
The Ministry of Cooperation directed NAFED and NCCF to procure all pulses and oilseeds directly from farmers within two years, eliminating intermediaries fro...
Shutdown across Ladakh as LAB, KDA push for 'credible dialogue' with Centre
Ladakh observed a complete shutdown on June 23, 2026, called jointly by the Leh Apex Body (LAB) and the Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) — two civil society ...
Indian children among most exposed to extreme heat, drought, and multiple climate hazards: UNICEF Report
UNICEF's Children's Climate Risk Report 2026 finds that nearly every child in India — approximately 97% — is exposed to two or more overlapping climate hazar...
Over 2.13 lakh Anganwadi posts vacant, 5,000 centres did not open for a day in 6 months—House panel
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports found that more than 2.13 lakh Anganwadi worker and helper posts across ...
Chemical contaminants, climate change and AMR are complicating food-borne illnesses: India needs to step up its game, say experts
WHO's updated 2026 global burden estimates show approximately 866 million people — nearly one in nine — fall ill from contaminated food annually, with 1.52 m...
Halt eviction of people settled in forests under British-era system, Assam govt. urged
The All India Union of Forest Working People (AIUFWP) has urged the Assam state government to halt the planned eviction of four taungya villages in Nagaon di...
Watch: Lung cancer breakthroughs, Nipah alert & women’s health challenges | The Hindu Health Wrap
A new Nipah virus (NiV) case has been reported in Kerala, triggering fresh concern about India's preparedness for periodic Henipavirus outbreaks; Kerala has ...
Zero cervical cancer deaths in vaccinated young women
A landmark long-term study from Scotland found zero cervical cancer deaths among women who received the HPV vaccine in childhood (ages 12–13), since the nati...
World Refugee Day 2026 in numbers: UNHCR reports decline in global refugee numbers amid escalating crisis
UNHCR's Global Trends Report 2026, released on World Refugee Day (June 20), recorded a decline in global forced displacement for the first time in a decade G...