Social Issues

An analysis has highlighted the need for the Industrial Relations Code, 2020 to be recalibrated to balance job security concerns arising from AI-driven autom...

Following the explosion that killed 27 miners in an illegal rat-hole mine at Mynsyngat village, East Jaintia Hills, on 5 February 2026, the Meghalaya governm...

At least 27 miners were killed and 9 injured in an explosion at an illegal rat-hole coal mine in Mynsyngat village, Thangsko area, East Jaintia Hills distric...

Zydus Lifesciences received Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) from the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) for Desidustat, an oral drug for the treatment of ...

E-commerce and quick commerce platforms are projected to add nearly 1 million gig workers in 2026, driven by last-mile delivery demand and rapid expansion in...

Three Kuki-Zo BJP MLAs -- Nemcha Kipgen, L.M. Khaute, and Ngursanglur Sanate -- joined the new Manipur state government, with Kipgen sworn in as Deputy Chief...

Darbhanga police in Bihar lodged a case under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against 70 people from the Brahmin commu...

Bihar has spent Rs 2.5 lakh crore, or approximately 20% of its total budget, on women-centric schemes over the last five financial years through its Gender B...

The Kerala government issued a formal order blocking the implementation of the National Population Register (NPR) in the state, reaffirming its long-standing...

Cardinal Poola Anthony, the 64-year-old Archbishop of Hyderabad, was elected as the new President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI) at its ...

An explosion in an illegal rat-hole coal mine in East Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya on February 5, 2026, killed at least 18 workers (with the death tol...

A dynamite explosion in an illegal coal mine at Mynsyngat in the Thangkso area of East Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya, killed at least 25 labourers in early Februa...

Over 1,000–1,500 crows died across Chennai between late January and early February 2026, with mass die-offs reported in Adyar, Velachery, Thiruvanmiyur, Pall...

The Delhi High Court ruled on a petition filed by a granddaughter seeking maintenance from her grandfather, holding that a moral obligation can become a lega...

The 19th-century Adivasi uprising in Jharkhand — the Munda Ulgulan (1899-1900), led by Birsa Munda — has become the subject of contested commemoration, with ...

The Supreme Court's January 30, 2026 ruling in *Dr. Jaya Thakur v. Government of India & Ors.* (2026 INSC 97) invites a broader reckoning with structural gen...

On January 30, 2026, the Supreme Court of India held that the right to menstrual health and hygiene is an integral part of the right to life and dignity unde...

The Union Budget 2026-27 allocated ₹6,000 crore for the upcoming Census and the National Population Register (NPR) exercise. No official notification for the...

The Union Budget 2026-27 allocated Rs 95,692 crore to the Viksit Bharat–Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin), commonly known as VB-G RAM G — th...

In January 2026, India's IHR National Focal Point notified WHO of two confirmed Nipah virus (NiV) infections in West Bengal, with laboratory confirmation fro...