Social Issues
Education, health, poverty, gender and welfare schemes
REMISSION OF PRISONERS
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued new guidelines and standard operating procedures (SOPs) on remission of prison sentences Remission is the reduction...
THE HUB AND SPOKE MODEL UNDER THE PM-SETU
The government provided details of the Pradhan Mantri Skilling and Employability through Upgraded ITIs (PM-SETU) scheme, which uses a hub and spoke model for...
Census 2027: How India’s population count will be conducted in two phases
Census 2027 will be conducted in two phases: (i) Houselisting and Housing Census from April to September 2026, and (ii) Population Enumeration in February 20...
SKILL DEVELOPMENT OF SCs, OBCs AND PWDs
The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) highlighted the Pradhan Mantri Dakshata Aur Kushalta Sampann Hitgrahi Yojana (PM-DAKSH), a Cent...
India prepares for its biggest headcount: What makes Census 2027 different
India is preparing for Census 2027, the 16th decennial census, delayed by over five years since the last census in 2011 (the 2021 census was postponed due to...
GENERATING JOB-READY YOUTH UNDER PRADHAN MANTRI KAUSHAL VIKAS YOJANA
The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) reported that Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) has trained 1.64 crore candidates fro...
NCERT corruption chapter row: SC asks to disassociate professors from work paid by public funds
The Supreme Court directed all publicly-funded educational institutions to disassociate Professor Michel Denino and two associates from curriculum and textbo...
Supreme Court allows first-ever passive euthanasia; how it differs from active euthanasia
India's Supreme Court permitted withdrawal of life support for Harish Rana, who had been in a persistent vegetative state, marking the first judicially sanct...
Chhattisgarh Cabinet approves new Bill to curb forced conversion
The Chhattisgarh Cabinet approved a new anti-conversion bill to replace the existing Chhattisgarh Dharm Swatantrya Adhiniyam (Freedom of Religion Act), 1968 ...
Why a PIL wants victims of forceful acid ingestion recognised under the disability law
The Supreme Court issued notice to all States and Union Territories on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking recognition of victims of forceful acid ing...
Karnataka wants to ban children from social media. Here’s why this might be harder than it sounds
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announced during the 2026-27 state budget speech that the use of social media will be prohibited for children under the...
Withdrawal of life support must not be an ‘act of abandonment’: Supreme Court judgment
The Supreme Court bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K.V. Viswanathan allowed withdrawal of life support for a 31-year-old man who had been in a coma for o...
Supreme Court to pronounce judgment on withdrawal of life support to a 31-year-old man
The Supreme Court of India, in a landmark ruling on March 11, 2026, allowed the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment (passive euthanasia) for Harish Rana,...
More women deleted from rolls in most States after SIR
Data from the Election Commission of India's (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls (2025-26) shows that in most Indian states, more women...
Guidelines issued to check milk adulteration in A.P.
At least 12 deaths were reported in Rajamahendravaram (Rajahmundry), Andhra Pradesh, linked to the consumption of adulterated milk, triggering a public healt...
Physical activity aligned with climate action offers greater combined benefits: Study
A study published in *Nature Health* introduced the Physical Activity and Climate Change (PACC) model — a conceptual framework showing how well-designed phys...
What’s missing in the conversations about the HPV vaccine? Men
The dominant public discourse around the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in India frames it almost exclusively as a tool for preventing cervical cancer in...
SC allows withdrawal of life support in Harish Rana passive euthanasia case
The Supreme Court of India, in a landmark ruling on March 11, 2026, allowed the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment (passive euthanasia) for Harish Rana,...
SC allows passive euthanasia for 32-year-old man in coma for over 12 years
The Supreme Court of India, in a landmark ruling on March 11, 2026, allowed the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment (passive euthanasia) for Harish Rana,...
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...