Social Issues
Education, health, poverty, gender and welfare schemes
Government proposes stricter anti-paper leak law, faster investigation and trials
The government proposed amendments to the existing anti-paper-leak law, aimed at faster investigation and trial of examination-malpractice offences The propo...
Beyond monoculture: How integrated farming is reviving Northeast India’s farms
Villages in Nagaon and Tamulpur districts of Assam and Namisai (Namsai) district of Arunachal Pradesh have adopted Integrated Farming Systems (IFS) that comb...
ICMR hands over homegrown cervical pre-cancer treatment, vaccine technologies to pharma firms
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has licensed three indigenously developed biomedical technologies to Indian pharmaceutical and vaccine manufact...
Centre proposes Bill to strengthen anti-cheating law in bid to curb exam malpractices
A Bill to amend the existing anti-cheating law governing public examinations has been proposed, raising maximum prison terms for both individual and institut...
What is the Public Examinations Amendment Bill? Govt proposes sweeping changes to anti-cheating law
The government proposed the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill to strengthen the existing anti-cheating law The Bill requires in...
Union Cabinet approves draft Bill for stricter punishments in paper leak cases
The Union Cabinet approved a draft bill to amend the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024, raising penalties for question paper leaks a...
Up to 10-year jail & Rs 10 crore fine: Cabinet clears tougher anti-paper leak bill
The Union Cabinet cleared amendments to the anti-paper-leak law, proposing a maximum jail term of 10 years and a maximum fine of ₹10 crore for exam-malpracti...
Up to 10 years’ jail, ₹1 crore fine: Centre notified anti-paper leak law in 2024
With a new Bill proposing tougher penalties for examination malpractice under discussion, attention has returned to the existing Public Examinations (Prevent...
ET Graphics: India is winning the battle against hunger, but not food costs
A newly released UN report shows India's share of undernourished people has more than halved over roughly two decades, falling from about 21.1% in 2004-06 to...
LPG, hostel and road connectivity see least progress in Centre’s scheme for tribals
Progress data on the Centre's flagship convergence scheme for Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) shows sharply uneven implementation across its co...
Hunger declines, but still 100 million go hungry in India, shows UN data
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) 2026 report, released jointly by UN agencies including the Food and Agriculture Organization (FA...
50% quota for ex-Agniveers in CAPF, Assam Rifles posts: MHA
The Ministry of Home Affairs is framing recruitment rules to reserve 50% of constable-level vacancies across Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) for ex-Agniv...
Census: Six months to go, government explores how to count caste
With months to go before the population enumeration phase of Census 2027, officials are finalising the method to be used for recording caste details of every...
Africa surpasses Asia with highest population facing hunger: UN
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) 2026 report found that Africa now has the highest absolute number of hungry people among world r...
Madhya Pradesh assembly passes UCC Bill amid protest by Congress
The Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly passed the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill, 2026 by voice vote during the Monsoon Session The bill bans polygamy, and p...
CDSCO clears recombinant live attenuated dengue vaccine for ages 4 to 60 years
The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) granted marketing authorisation to a recombinant, live-attenuated tetravalent dengue vaccine for use ...
What EPFO 3.0 will bring: Pension cover for all, social security for gig workers
The Ministry of Labour and Employment is working on a set of reforms, referred to as "EPFO 3.0," aimed at widening pension and social security coverage beyon...
NHA de-empanels over 2,000 hospitals in fraud crackdown under AB PM-JAY: Report
The National Health Authority's National Anti-Fraud Unit (NAFU) penalised 2,842 hospitals under Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) ...
India approves first dengue vaccine for individuals aged 4 to 60 years
The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), through the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), granted marketing authorisation to Takeda's QDE...
India gets first dengue vaccine QDENGA: Who can get the jab, how effective is it and what is the dosage? Explained
India's drug regulator granted marketing authorisation for QDENGA (TAK-003), the country's first approved dengue vaccine, for use in individuals aged 4 to 60...