Social Issues
Education, health, poverty, gender and welfare schemes
For India, obesity complicates the nutrition challenge
India faces a paradoxical "double burden of malnutrition" — simultaneous co-existence of undernutrition (stunting, wasting, anaemia) in rural and poor popula...
Maharashtra Health Department rolls out HPV vaccine for girls on Women’s Day
The Maharashtra government launched a statewide HPV (Human Papillomavirus) vaccination campaign on March 8, 2026 — International Women's Day — targeting appr...
How Dalit voting patterns have changed across elections
Data analysis of Dalit voting patterns across Lok Sabha elections reveals a significant fragmentation of the Dalit vote, which was once consolidiated behind ...
India backs dialogue, prioritises safety of Indians amid West Asia conflict: Jaishankar
India formally backed dialogue and diplomacy as the path to resolving the West Asia conflict, with the government calling for de-escalation, restraint, and p...
The need to recognise ‘volunteer’ care work
An analysis published on March 8, 2026 (International Women's Day) argued that India urgently needs to recognise and formalise so-called "volunteer" care wor...
Death behind bars in Chhattisgarh
The Chhattisgarh state government disclosed in the Assembly that 66 inmates had died in state jails between January 2025 and January 31, 2026 — a 13-month pe...
Jal Mahotsav kicks off in Lucknow’s Gosainganj, to cover 22,000 villages across UP
Jal Mahotsav 2026 was launched on March 8, 2026 (International Women's Day) from Lucknow's Gosainganj, with a target of covering 22,000 villages in Uttar Pra...
Refugees who came to protect their religion deserve citizenship: Amit Shah on CAA
The Union Home Minister held a citizenship certificate distribution ceremony at which 188 individuals from Pakistan and Afghanistan were granted Indian citiz...
Andhra Pradesh’s draft population policy: How a shift from ‘population control’ tries to address decline in fertility rates
Andhra Pradesh has released a draft Population Management Policy, the first state-level policy explicitly designed to reverse falling fertility rates rather ...
Explained: Maharashtra’s new farm loan waiver, despite past warnings of impact on credit culture — and farmers themselves
Maharashtra's Mahayuti government announced the Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Shetkari Karjmafi Yojana in its Budget 2026-27, under which crop loans of up to ...
Indian Railways launch ‘SHINE’ to empower women at workplace
Indian Railways launched the SHINE (Sexual Harassment Incident Notification for Empowerment) module on International Women's Day, March 8, 2026, integrated w...
Why India’s ‘leaky pipeline’ in research is unlike the rest of the world
A detailed analysis of India's "leaky pipeline" problem in research reveals a stark paradox: India has the world's highest percentage of women in STEM underg...
Climate change hits women hardest, funding support inadequate: UNGCNI
The United Nations Global Compact Network India (UNGCNI) released findings showing that climate change disproportionately impacts women and girls, while glob...
Gender, agriculture and climate change
A growing body of analysis documents how climate variability — including irregular monsoons, prolonged droughts, and extreme weather events — is disproportio...
From lighting lives to powering livelihoods: TERI's LaBL 2.0 targets the next billion
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) formally launched LaBL 2.0 (Lighting a Billion Lives 2.0) on February 26, 2026, at the World Sustainable Developmen...
Census 2027: House listing operations to begin in Arunachal on April 16
The preparatory phase of Census 2027 — India's first fully digital population census — commenced with house listing operations beginning from April 1, 2026, ...
Rs 54k out-of-pocket expenditure per hospitalisation in pvt facilities under PMJAY: Study commissioned by Niti Aayog
A study commissioned by Niti Aayog found that PMJAY (Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana) beneficiaries incur an average out-of-pocket expenditure of Rs 54,000 ...
Over 52,000 Indian nationals brought back from Gulf to India in a week, says MEA
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) confirmed that over 52,000 Indian nationals returned from the Gulf region between March 1 and 7, 2026 — one week after...
Explained: The jobs that AI could most certainly replace, as per an Anthropic study
A study published on March 5, 2026, by Anthropic economists Maxim Massenkoff and Peter McCrory introduces a new framework to measure AI's actual — not theore...
International Women’s Day 2026: Female Genital Mutilation is not heritage — it is harm
On International Women's Day 2026, the United Nations reiterated its unequivocal position that Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is not a cultural heritage pra...