Polity & Governance
Social Issues
6 min
UCC key to end gender bias in laws: SC
While hearing a petition challenging discriminatory provisions in Muslim inheritance law under the Shariat, a Supreme Court bench (Justice Surya Kant, Justic...
Social Issues
Polity & Governance
6 min
Nod to changes to widen transgender definition
The Union Cabinet approved amendments to the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 aimed at broadening the statutory definition of "transgende...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
6 min
Chhattisgarh Cabinet approves new anti-conversion law draft
The Chhattisgarh Cabinet, led by Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai, approved the draft of the Chhattisgarh Dharm Swatantraya Vidheyak, 2026 (Chhattisgarh Freedom...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
6 min
SC to pronounce verdict in family’s plea to withdraw life support to man in ‘permanent vegetative’ state
A bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K.V. Viswanathan was scheduled to pronounce its verdict on a family's plea to withdraw life support from 31-year-old H...
Economics
Social Issues
Polity & Governance
5 min
Tamil Nadu State Planning Commission calls for legal protection and social security for gig workers
The Tamil Nadu State Planning Commission released a study titled "Status of Platform Based Gig Workers in Tamil Nadu," calling for legal protection and socia...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
4 min
Exclusive: Union Cabinet approves Jal Jeevan Mission extension until 2028 with lower allocation
The Union Cabinet approved an extension of the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) until December 2028, reformulating it as JJM 2.0 with a restructured implementation m...
Science & Technology
Social Issues
6 min
Companies starting to take ownership for mitigating AMR but drug resistance outpacing efforts: Report
The 2026 AMR Benchmark report by the Access to Medicine Foundation evaluated 25 pharmaceutical companies — 7 large research-based firms, 10 generic manufactu...
Environment & Ecology
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
6 min
Rat-hole mining in Meghalaya exposes limits of the ban and challenge of mapping state’s hills
On February 5, 2026, a dynamite explosion at an illegal coal mine in Mynsyngat village, Thangkso area (East Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya) killed 34 labourers — e...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
6 min
UP to drop objectionable references to leprosy-affected people in anti-beggary law
The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet approved an amendment to the state's anti-beggary law to remove provisions that specifically and pejoratively referenced persons af...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
4 min
‘Only way is to bring in Uniform Civil Code’: SC on PIL seeking equal inheritance rights for Muslim women
The Supreme Court, while hearing a PIL seeking equal inheritance rights for Muslim women, observed that the "only way" to address gender discrimination in pe...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
6 min
SC asks Centre to draft 'no-fault compensation policy' for serious Covid vaccine side effects
A Supreme Court bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta directed the Union Government to formulate a no-fault compensation policy for serious Adverse...