Social Issues
Education, health, poverty, gender and welfare schemes
Draft national health research policy proposes overhaul of India’s research ecosystem
The Department of Health Research (DHR), under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, has released a draft National Health Research Policy for public fee...
Centre expands PM Internship Scheme to MSMEs, statutory bodies to boost participation in pilot round 3
The eligible company pool for the Prime Minister's Internship Scheme (PMIS) was expanded to include MSMEs, global capability centres, professional bodies (IC...
Fair, reasoned process must decide citizenship: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court set aside 27 Gauhati High Court judgments that had upheld Foreigners Tribunal orders declaring individuals to be foreigners, in *Sabitri De...
Supreme Court quashes Guwahati high court order on 27 'foreigners'
The Supreme Court set aside 27 judgments of the Gauhati High Court that had upheld Foreigners Tribunal orders declaring individuals as foreigners. The Court ...
Madras High Court puts cow slaughter ban in Tamil Nadu on hold
The Supreme Court stayed a Madras High Court order that had directed the state's Chief Secretary and Director General of Police to ensure that no cow or calf...
Kuki-Zo bodies turn to Mizoram for Naga talks, urge Centre to defuse Manipur crisis
Kuki-Zo organisations approached counterparts and church bodies in Mizoram to help facilitate dialogue with Naga groups, seeking to ease tensions that follow...
'Citizenship must be decided through fair process': SC sets aside Guahati HC judgment
The Supreme Court set aside a batch of Gauhati High Court judgments that had upheld Foreigners Tribunal orders declaring 27 individuals to be foreigners. A b...
SC rejects plea of 350 West Bengal madrasa teachers seeking grant-in-aid salaries
The Supreme Court dismissed a batch of petitions filed by over 350 teaching and non-teaching staff of West Bengal madrasahs seeking recognition of their appo...
India can add $700 bn to $1.4 trn to GDP with higher female workforce participation, says CSEP study
A study by the Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) estimates that raising female workforce participation in India could add between $700 billion a...
How tribal land disputes persist in Jharkhand despite legal safeguards
Tribal land disputes continue to be reported across Jharkhand despite the state having some of India's oldest and strongest statutory protections against ali...
UN Special Rapporteurs raise concerns over SIR and use of AI-driven models for exclusion of minorities
UN Special Rapporteurs raised concerns regarding the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls carried out by the Election Commission of India, in ...
West Bengal govt forms 9-member panel to examine draft UCC bill; legislation may be tabled in August
The West Bengal government constituted a nine-member expert committee to examine a draft Uniform Civil Code (UCC) bill prepared for the state The committee i...
Protests over Ken-Betwa river link project resume in Madhya Pradesh
A protest by displaced residents, most of them women, has resumed on the banks of the Barana river near Kupi village in Madhya Pradesh, entering its fifth da...
Maharashtra sets up seven-member panel to prepare Uniform Civil Code draft
The Maharashtra state government constituted a seven-member committee to prepare a draft framework for implementing a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the state T...
Tamil Nadu moves SC against Madras HC verdict striking down quota benefits for converts to Islam
The Tamil Nadu government has filed an appeal before the Supreme Court against a Madras High Court verdict that struck down a 2024 Government Order allowing ...
Panel recommends raising Ayushman Bharat cover to Rs 10 Lakh
A Parliamentary Standing Committee has recommended doubling the annual health insurance cover under Ayushman Bharat–Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-J...
Tamil Nadu moves SC against Madras HC order on backward status of converts to Islam
The Tamil Nadu government has filed a Special Leave Petition before the Supreme Court challenging a Madras High Court ruling that struck down a 2024 Governme...
Caste census: methodology, challenges, and the road ahead | Explained
Caste data collection has been included in the upcoming decennial Census, scheduled for population enumeration in February 2027 (with hill and border regions...
Congress opposes Hindu members on Madhya Pradesh Waqf Board, plans Supreme Court challenge
Madhya Pradesh reconstituted its State Waqf Board, appointing two Hindu members to the ten-member committee — becoming the first state to implement this prov...
Madhya Pradesh govt. reconstitutes Waqf Board under new law, inclusion of Hindu members draws criticism
Madhya Pradesh reconstituted its State Waqf Board under the provisions of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, becoming the first state to do so. The newly consti...