Social Issues
Education, health, poverty, gender and welfare schemes
NITI Aayog Organises Workshop and Releases Report on Roadmap for Horticulture Development in Jammu & Kashmir
NITI Aayog organised a workshop and released the report "Roadmap for Horticulture Development in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir" at New Delhi, attend...
Cabinet clears Bills for women’s quota in Lok Sabha and Assemblies
The Union Cabinet approved the Constitution Amendment Bills designed to operationalise the 33% women's quota in the Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblie...
Cabinet clears draft amendment Bill to implement women’s quota
The Union Cabinet cleared a draft Constitution Amendment Bill to implement 33% reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies ahead ...
Logic may not be the right tool to examine faith and belief systems, says Supreme Court
A nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, continued its hearing on the Sabarimala temple entry issue...
PM Modi wants collective action on women’s reservation, wants all MPs to back amendment Bill
Prime Minister Modi called for collective, cross-party support from all Members of Parliament to back a constitutional amendment enabling early implementatio...
No devotee of Ayyappa would have moved SC challenging exclusion of women of menstruating age: Justice Nagarathna
A nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court began hearing the Sabarimala reference on April 7, 2026, examining broader questions of religious freedo...
Government clears bills to amend quota law for women
The Union Cabinet approved draft bills to operationalise the women's 33% reservation in the Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies ahead of the 2029 parl...
Union Cabinet clears draft bills for early implementation of women’s quota law
The Union Cabinet cleared draft bills to implement the Women's Reservation Act before the 2029 general elections, bypassing the original condition that imple...
Mudra loans cross Rs 40 lakh crore, Nirmala Sitharaman hails MSME credit push
Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) completed 11 years on April 8, 2026, having disbursed over Rs 40 lakh crore (Rs 40.07 lakh crore as of March 27, 2026) thr...
Cabinet clears amendments to women reservation Bill
The Union Cabinet approved draft bills to amend the Constitution (106th Amendment) Act, 2023, known as the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, to enable early impl...
Top 10% rural households own 44% land in India: World Inequality Lab study findings, explained
A World Inequality Lab Working Paper (2026/09) titled "Land Inequality in India: Nature, History, and Markets" found that the top 10% of rural households own...
Indian govt hikes NBS fertilizer subsidy for kharif season by up to 21% to ₹41,533.81 crore
The Union Cabinet approved the Nutrient Based Subsidy (NBS) rates for Phosphatic and Potassic (P&K) fertilizers for Kharif Season 2026 (April 1 to September ...
In big structural shift, women borrowers become a major driver of credit demand in India
A joint report by NITI Aayog (Women Entrepreneurship Platform), TransUnion CIBIL, and MicroSave Consulting titled "From Borrowers to Builders: Women and Indi...
Credit borrowing by women at Rs 76 lakh crore; 16 crore active women borrowers: NITI Aayog report
The Finance Minister announced that credit borrowing by women in India has reached Rs 76 lakh crore, reflecting significant progress in women's financial inc...
Women borrowers hold Rs 76 lakh crore credit portfolio: Report
A report titled "From Borrowers to Builders: Women and India's Evolving Credit Market," released under the aegis of NITI Aayog's Women Entrepreneurship Platf...
Justice B V Nagarathna: Women cannot be 'untouchables' for 3 days every month
A nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant, resumed hearing the Sabarimala reference case, which examines broad...
Several villagers, police personnel injured in clash in Odisha amid protests against mining of bauxite
Violent clashes erupted between tribal villagers and security forces in Rayagada district, Odisha, over protests against a proposed bauxite mining project at...
Social ill cannot be branded as ‘religious practice’, says Supreme Court on maiden day of Sabarimala reference hearing
A nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court began hearing the Sabarimala reference on April 7, 2026, revisiting the 2018 five-judge bench verdict th...
Sabarimala entry case: Woman can't be treated as 'untouchable' for 3 days, says SC judge Nagarathna
During the nine-judge Constitution Bench hearing on the Sabarimala reference, Justice V. Nagarathna made a pointed observation about the nature of the exclus...
Manipur bomb attack: 2 children dead as violence flares up again in Bishnupur
A bomb was hurled at a house in the Moirang Tronglaobi area of Bishnupur district, Manipur, killing a five-year-old boy and a six-month-old girl, and injurin...