Polity & Governance
Social Issues
4 min
Parliament passes Bill to amend law to protect transgenders
Parliament passed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026 amid strong protests from Opposition parties who demanded its referral ...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
5 min
After GHADC amendment, Meghalaya groups seek curbs on non-tribal voters
Meghalaya Governor C.H. Vijayashankar approved the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council (GHADC)'s amendment making it compulsory for candidates contesting ...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
4 min
Two members from National Council for Transgender Persons resign, citing ‘regressive’ Amendment Bill
Kalki Subramaniam (southern representative) and Rituparna Neog (northeast representative) resigned from the National Council for Transgender Persons, calling...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
5 min
Parliament clears Transgender Bill amid an uproar
Parliament passed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, amending the parent Act of 2019. Lok Sabha passed it on March 23 and R...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
5 min
India’s ‘newest voters’ caught in SIR adjudication trap in West Bengal
Thousands of former Bangladesh enclave residents in Cooch Behar, West Bengal — who received Indian citizenship after the 2015 India-Bangladesh Land Boundary ...
Social Issues
Polity & Governance
4 min
Parliament passes bill to amend transgender law; two members of council for TG persons quit in protest
Parliament passed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026 — the Rajya Sabha approved it by voice vote after the Lok Sabha had alr...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
5 min
Excommunicating members for marrying outside Church violates their constitutional rights: Kerala HC
The Kerala High Court ruled that excommunicating members of the Knanaya Catholic Church for marrying outside the community violates their constitutional righ...
Science & Technology
Social Issues
4 min
India’s first repository of major psychiatric disorders, CALM-Brain, launched in Bengaluru
CALM-Brain, India's first repository of major psychiatric disorders built on Indian patient data, was formally launched in Bengaluru. The database incorporat...
Science & Technology
Social Issues
5 min
TB Tales: journey to slay bacteria
On World TB Day (March 24), health observers assessed India's progress toward tuberculosis elimination, noting a 21% reduction in new TB cases between 2015 a...
Science & Technology
Social Issues
4 min
Antibiotic resistance fuels 87% of India's typhoid economic burden: Study
A modelling study published in The Lancet Regional Health — Southeast Asia found that antibiotic-resistant typhoid infections account for 87% of India's tota...
Environment & Ecology
Social Issues
Polity & Governance
6 min
'India belongs to its people, not a select few': Rahul meets tribal leaders opposing Great Nicobar project
Tribal leaders of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands met with Rahul Gandhi to express opposition to the Great Nicobar Island Holistic Development Project, alleg...
Economics
Social Issues
5 min
Rural job scheme demand falls to a six-year low as work rises in farms, urban centres
Demand for work under the rural employment guarantee scheme has fallen to its lowest level in six years, according to official data tracked by experts. The d...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
4 min
'Historic step': After Uttarakhand, Gujarat passes Uniform Civil Code Bill
The Gujarat Legislative Assembly passed the Uniform Civil Code Bill, 2026, following a debate lasting more than seven hours, making Gujarat the second Indian...
Social Issues
Science & Technology
4 min
TB remains India’s biggest infectious killer, but mass screening push shows results
Tuberculosis (TB) remains India's largest single infectious disease killer, even as the country's mass screening programme under the TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan i...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
4 min
Women’s quota: Why govt may run into hurdles in bid to expand Lok Sabha with same states’ heft
The Union government is exploring amendments to delink women's reservation from the census and delimitation processes, potentially fast-tracking implementati...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
7 min
SC ruling on conversion puts spotlight on Punjab’s ‘faith without conversion’ phenomenon
The Supreme Court of India, in a ruling delivered on March 24, 2026, held that conversion from Hinduism, Sikhism, or Buddhism to any other religion results i...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
6 min
After Supreme Court allows withdrawal of medical treatment, Harish Rana passed away at AIIMS
Harish Rana, 31, an engineering student from Ghaziabad, died at AIIMS Delhi's palliative care unit on March 24–25, 2026 — becoming the first person in India ...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
7 min
Indian man whose life support was removed after court go-ahead dies
Harish Rana, a 31-year-old man from Ghaziabad who had been in a comatose/vegetative state since 2013 after falling from a fourth-floor balcony, died at AIIMS...