Social Issues
Education, health, poverty, gender and welfare schemes
Forest Rights and the Great Nicobar Mega-Project: The case before the Calcutta High Court
Three connected Public Interest Litigations (PILs) challenging Forest Rights Act violations in the Great Nicobar Island development project were admitted as ...
The latest Ebola outbreak is now a global health emergency. Do we have a cure yet?
On 17 May 2026, the WHO Director-General declared the Ebola disease epidemic caused by the Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and...
Field Operations for Houselisting and Housing Census commences in Rajasthan, Meghalaya, Maharashtra, Jharkhand and MCD area of Delhi
House-to-house field operations for the Houselisting and Housing Census (HLO) — Phase I of Census 2027 — commenced on May 16, 2026, in Rajasthan, Meghalaya, ...
NEET-UG | Test in turmoil
The National Testing Agency cancelled NEET-UG 2026 on May 12 — nine days after it was conducted on May 3 for 22.79 lakh candidates — following confirmation b...
Centre to roll out pilot programme for linking out-of-school adolescents to open school
The Union Ministry of Education convened a high-level meeting on May 16, 2026, chaired by the Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSEL),...
NEET paper leak: CBI arrests Pune botany teacher who NTA appointed as expert
The Central Bureau of Investigation arrested Manisha Gurunath Mandhare, a botany teacher from Pune, in connection with the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak — bringing...
‘She was a very normal teacher’: CBI arrests another professor from Pune in NEET-UG paper leak case
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested a senior botany professor from Pune — who had been appointed as a domain expert by the National Testing Ag...
CBI arrests ‘mastermind’ linked to NEET-UG 2026 biology paper leak
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested a Pune-based botany teacher — appointed by the National Testing Agency as a subject-matter expert and dire...
NEET-UG paper leak: Doctors’ body moves Supreme Court to make NTA a statutory body accountable to Parliament
Following the cancellation of NEET-UG 2026 after a confirmed paper leak, the United Doctors Front (UDF) filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court under Arti...
Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu announces incentives for third and fourth children under new population management policy
The Andhra Pradesh government announced financial incentives of ₹30,000 for the birth of a third child and ₹40,000 for the birth of a fourth child, as part o...
NTA ‘structurally incapacitated’, NEET-UG shift to computer mode won’t fix integrity, says doctors’ body
The Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) filed a petition in the Supreme Court on May 13, 2026, arguing that the National Testing Agency is "s...
Kuki-Zo protestors rally in Manipur, demanding justice for slain church leaders, release of hostages
Kuki-Zo tribal organisations, led by Kuki Inpi Manipur (the apex body of Kuki tribes), held mass rallies and protests across Kuki-Zo inhabited hill districts...
Why reserved candidates availing relaxations are barred from open category recruitment
The Supreme Court has reaffirmed a settled principle in reservation jurisprudence: a reserved category candidate who avails category-specific relaxations (su...
Farmers from Punjab protest at Mohali-Chandigarh boundary against Centre Government
Thousands of farmers from Punjab marched from Mohali to Raj Bhawan in Chandigarh on 15 May 2026, under the banner of Sanyukt Kissan Morcha (SKM) and allied o...
Sri Lanka civil war: 17 years later, the imprints remain
18 May 2026 marks 17 years since the end of Sri Lanka's three-decade civil war, when the Sri Lankan Armed Forces defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eela...
28 Naga, Kuki civilians released in Manipur; slain church leaders buried
On May 15, 2026, 28 hostages — 14 Naga and 14 Kuki civilians — were released in Manipur following mediation by civil society organisations (CSOs), the United...
Census: 1.34 lakh submit self enumeration in Delhi; 50,000 deployed for houselisting visits
The self-enumeration phase of Census 2027 concluded in Delhi on May 15, 2026, with 1.34 lakh (134,000) individuals submitting census data online across 250 w...
Uttarakhand files first FIR on allegations of nikah halala under Uniform Civil Code
Uttarakhand Police registered the first FIR under the Uniform Civil Code of Uttarakhand, 2024, on allegations involving the practice of nikah halala. The cas...
Talks continue to free 44 hostages in Manipur; church leader killings ‘unprecedented’: Deputy CM
Three Baptist church leaders from the Kuki community were killed and four others injured after unidentified armed men opened fire at Zero Point between Kotle...
Govt: Right to religion does not provide for gender equality
In ongoing hearings before a 9-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on the Sabarimala reference case, the Union Government submitted that the right ...