Social Issues
Education, health, poverty, gender and welfare schemes
Assembly passes two Bills removing ‘leprosy’ references from State Laws
The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly unanimously passed two Bills removing discriminatory references to persons affected by or cured of leprosy from exist...
Look into plea for special law on hate crimes: SC to Attorney General
The Supreme Court of India asked Attorney General R. Venkataramani to examine a PIL seeking guidelines and a special law to address hate crimes and racial vi...
Delhi High Court seeks Centre’s stand on plea challenging provisions of data protection law
The Delhi High Court issued notice to the Central Government on a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the constitutionality of key provisions of the...
What the scrapping of reservation means for Muslims in Maharashtra
The Maharashtra government cancelled the 2014 decision that had granted 5% reservation to socially and educationally backward Muslims in the State — a quota ...
Maharashtra govt cancels Muslim quota: AIMIM alleges discrimination in jobs, education
The Maharashtra government formally cancelled the administrative framework for a 5% reservation for socially and educationally backward Muslim communities (S...
Allocation of Rs. 5.01 lakh crore reported for welfare of women and girls in the gender budget statement of FY 2026-27,an increase of Rs. 11.55% over the GBS allocation of Rs. 4.49 lakh crore in FY 2025-26
The Gender Budget Statement (GBS) for FY 2026-27 reports an allocation of Rs 5.01 lakh crore for welfare of women and girls, an increase of 11.55% over the R...
Maharashtra scraps Muslim quota, opposition protests
The Maharashtra government formally cancelled the 5% reservation for Muslims in government and semi-government jobs as well as educational institutions throu...
Telangana to rollout free HPV vaccination programme for girls aged 14 and 15 at end of February
The Telangana government announced a free Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme for girls aged 14 and 15, to be rolled out starting February 28, 2...
AI Impact Summit: Government launches SAHI, BODH to strengthen health AI ecosystem
At the India AI Impact Summit 2026 on February 17, 2026, Union Health Minister JP Nadda launched two landmark digital health AI initiatives: SAHI and BODH. S...
Skewed Jammu, Kashmir quota data set to sharpen debate
Data on J&K's reservation structure has intensified a political and legal controversy: total reservations in J&K now stand at approximately 70%, leaving only...
After 3 month boycott over Dalit cook, residents of Odisha village finally send their children to anganwadi
After a three-month boycott, residents of Nuagaon village under Ghalimala gram panchayat in Kendrapara district, Odisha, began sending their children back to...
Govt to bring in AI tools in teaching: What is the plan, how it will work
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched Bodhan AI as a Centre of Excellence for AI in education at the two-day Bharat Bodhan AI Conclave 2026 he...
Rural slowdown pushes January unemployment rate to 5%
India's unemployment rate rose to 5% in January 2026 from 4.8% in December 2025 among persons aged 15 years and above, according to the Periodic Labour Force...
'Dragged out and set on fire' - the Bangladesh mob killing that shocked the world
In December 2025, Dipu Chandra Das, a 27-year-old Hindu factory worker in Bangladesh, was accused by Muslim colleagues of making derogatory remarks about the...
Unemployment in India rises slightly to 5 pc in January: Govt survey
The Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) Monthly Bulletin for January 2026, released by MoSPI, showed India's unemployment rate at 5% for persons aged 15 year...
Regional Event cum Workshop scheduled to be held on 17th February 2026 at Sher-i-Kashmir International Convention Center (SKICC), in Srinagar, J&K
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) conducted a Regional Event cum Workshop on financial literacy and investor awareness in February 2026, cont...
Unemployment rate up a tad to 5% in January, higher rise for females
India's unemployment rate for persons aged 15 years and above rose to 5% in January 2026, up from 4.8% in December 2025, according to the Periodic Labour For...
India’s unemployment rate rises marginally to 5% in January
India's unemployment rate rose marginally to 5% in January 2026, up from 4.7% in November 2025. The increase reversed a declining trend that had brought the ...
Gobar Times: India’s environmental heroes
A feature traced the history of India's environmental activism, highlighting how grassroots movements shaped the country's conservation trajectory. The artic...
Ensure zero human death in elephant attacks: Jharkhand CM asks officials
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren directed officials to ensure "not even a single death" occurs from elephant attacks in the state, issuing instructions ...