Social Issues
Education, health, poverty, gender and welfare schemes
SC: How can transgender ID cards be rendered invalid?
The Supreme Court, hearing petitions on the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026, questioned the mechanism by which transgender ide...
Proof of life: on the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill 2026
The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2026 was introduced in and passed by the Lok Sabha, amending the Registration of Births and Deaths Ac...
Supreme Court extends domestic cruelty offence to live-in relationships
The Supreme Court held that the criminal offence of cruelty, earlier confined to a legally married woman and her husband or his relatives, can extend to a li...
Analysing the Supreme Court’s judgment on sex work
The Supreme Court, in a nearly 300-page judgment in *Prajwala v. Union of India* (2026 INSC 609), held that adult individuals who voluntarily engage in sex w...
Technology must be backed by process reforms: EPFO CEO
The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has rolled out a set of process reforms aimed at simplifying access to Provident Fund (PF) savings rather t...
Explained: What changes after India's tougher anti-paper leak law comes into force
The Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Act, 2026 has come into force across India, tightening the framework created by the parent 202...
President Murmu assents to anti-paper leak amendment Bill
The President accorded assent to the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026, after it was passed by both Houses of Parliament ...
Self-enumeration exercise for India's 16th Census kicks-off in West Bengal
The self-enumeration window for the first phase of Census 2027 opened in West Bengal, running from August 1 to August 15, 2026 Residents can submit household...
Govt extends PM-Kisan yojana
The government extended the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme for a further five-year period, running until financial year 2030-31. The ext...
Cabinet approves extension of PM-KISAN scheme till FY’31
The Union Cabinet approved a five-year extension of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme, taking its operational period through to financi...
Centre extends PM-Kisan for four more years, allocates ₹3.15 lakh crore
The Union Cabinet approved continuation of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme for a further five years, from 2026-27 to 2030-31, with a ...
PM-KISAN scheme gets 5-year extension and Rs 3.1 lakh crore
The Union Cabinet approved continuation of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme from 2026-27 to 2030-31, with a total financial outlay of ...
'Head of family PM Modi listens': BJP's Raghav Chadha hails 'historic' anti-paper leak Bill
Parliament passed the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026, tightening penalties under the parent 2024 Act. The Bill was int...
Bigger fines, longer jail terms, fast-track courts: How new paper leak Bill amends 2024 law
The Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026 was passed by the Lok Sabha by voice vote, amending the Public Examinations (Preven...
Salary from private sector employment cannot be excluded in ‘Creamy Layer’ assessment: Kerala HC
The Kerala High Court dismissed petitions filed by two students seeking Non-Creamy Layer (NCL) OBC certificates for competitive examinations, holding that th...
Supreme Court curbs powers of SC panel, says it can’t pass adjudicatory orders
The Supreme Court held that the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) has a recommendatory and advisory role under the Constitution and cannot pass...
Bill to make delayed registration of births and deaths more stringent introduced in Lok Sabha
The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2026 was introduced in the Lok Sabha amid opposition protests The Bill was cleared for introduction b...
Gender integration in India’s uniformed services: The Coast Guard catches up
The Indian Coast Guard has moved to extend Permanent Absorption and associated retirement benefits (including pension) to women officers, aligning its policy...
New anti-paper leak bill passed in Lok Sabha amid Opposition uproar
The Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026, was introduced in Lok Sabha and passed by voice vote. The amendment raises the pre...
The ‘outlier’ caves in: Permanent commission allowed for women in Indian Coast Guard
A gender-neutral policy for induction and career progression of officers in the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) was unveiled, extending Permanent Commission (PC) el...