Polity & Governance
Social Issues
7 min
Scheduled caste status only for Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs: SC
A Supreme Court bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Manmohan ruled that no person professing a religion other than Hinduism, Sikhism, or Buddhism can...
Economics
Polity & Governance
4 min
India can mobilise ₹8 lakh crore annually for roads, but spending lags: Transport minister Nitin Gadkari
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari stated that India can mobilise up to ₹8 lakh crore annually for highway development — ₹5 lakh crore from capital markets backed ...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
4 min
Opposition seeks all-party meet on women's quota after polls
Opposition parties, including Congress, wrote to the government on March 24, 2026, requesting an all-party meeting chaired by the Prime Minister to discuss t...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
6 min
Gujarat assembly passes UCC Bill after over 7-hour debate amid Cong’s strong opposition
The Gujarat Legislative Assembly passed the Gujarat Uniform Civil Code, 2026 after more than seven hours of debate; passed by voice vote with the BJP majorit...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
6 min
Lok Sabha clears tweak to bill on trans persons amid opposition protests
Lok Sabha passed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026 by voice vote despite opposition demands for referral to a parliamentary ...
Polity & Governance
6 min
Delimitation & women reservation bill: Southern states backs 50% seat hike, seeks share status quo
The government introduced two bills in Parliament: a Delimitation Bill proposing a 50% increase in Lok Sabha seats for all states, and an amendment bill to d...
Polity & Governance
5 min
Women’s quota: Govt to take Opposition on board for hike in LS, Assembly seats
Opposition parties demanded an all-party meeting with the government on a proposed amendment to the Women's Reservation Act (Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, 20...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
5 min
Opposition demands all-party meet on Women’s Reservation Act amendment, seeks govt note
Opposition parties demanded an all-party meeting with the government on a proposed amendment to the Women's Reservation Act (Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, 20...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
5 min
Do protections for Scheduled Castes carry over with religious conversion? What the law says
A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Manmohan ruled on March 24, 2026, that conversion to any religion other ...
Economics
Polity & Governance
6 min
Nitin Gadkari launches NHAI-backed Raajmarg Infra Investment Trust
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari launched the NHAI-backed Raajmarg Infra Investment Trust (Raajmarg InvIT or RIIT) on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on March 24...
Economics
Polity & Governance
International Relations
5 min
India sets up seven empowered groups to tackle West Asia war squeeze
Prime Minister Narendra Modi informed the Rajya Sabha on March 24, 2026 that the government has constituted seven empowered groups of senior officials to for...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
5 min
LS passes transgender amendment bill amid Oppn walkout. Medical board & narrowed definition under fire
Lok Sabha passed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026 by voice vote; sections of the Opposition staged a walkout. The bill remo...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
5 min
Only Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh can claim Scheduled Caste status: Supreme Court
A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Manmohan ruled on March 24, 2026, that conversion to any religion other ...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
6 min
Supreme Court widens doors to permanent commission for women in armed forces, flagging ‘systemic discrimination’ behind denials
A Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant, Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, and Justice N. Kotiswar Singh ruled that women Short Service Commission (SSC...
Polity & Governance
Internal Security
5 min
Delhi court sentences Kashmiri separatist Asiya Andrabi to life in UAPA case; two associates jailed for 30 years
A Delhi court (Additional Sessions Judge Chander Jit Singh) on March 24, 2026, sentenced Kashmiri separatist leader Asiya Andrabi to life imprisonment in a c...
Economics
Polity & Governance
6 min
How can a ₹2-crore BMW i7 draws same ₹8,000 tax as ₹12-lakh Punch.ev
Under the Income Tax Rules 2026 (effective April 1, 2026), employer-provided electric vehicles are now valued for perquisite tax purposes at a flat concessio...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
7 min
'Brazen attack on constitutional rights of transgender people': Rahul Gandhi slams govt on bill
Opposition leaders and civil society groups have strongly condemned the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, introduced in Lok Sa...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
6 min
Harish Rana, India's first passive euthanasia case, dies after 13 years in vegetative state
Harish Rana, the first person in India to be legally permitted passive euthanasia by the Supreme Court, died on March 24, 2026, at 4:10 PM at the All India I...
Internal Security
Polity & Governance
7 min
'Hatched conspiracy to secede Kashmir from India': Why J&K separatist Asiya Andrabi got life term in UAPA case
A Delhi court (Additional Sessions Judge Chander Jit Singh) sentenced Kashmiri separatist leader Asiya Andrabi to life imprisonment on March 24, 2026, in a c...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
5 min
Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel introduces Uniform Civil Code Bill, 2026 in Assembly
Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel tabled the Gujarat Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill, 2026 in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly, a day after a state-appointed expe...