National politics, policy and the Union — through a public lens.
Record attacks, missing Indian seafarers, a weak rupee and thin reserves expose an energy policy built on hope.
On 15 October the Supreme Court issued notice to the Chief Election Commissioner and his two colleagues on a petition by thirteen opposition leaders. Notice is not a verdict. It is a demand for the files.
Delhi Police struck Jantar Mantar off the list of protest sites on 12 October and named three grounds between 4 and 15 kilometres away. The right survives. The address does not.
In May the Supreme Court upheld the special revision of Bihar's voter roll. In October the same bench was asked to look again, because a legal power and a trusted list are not the same thing.
The charge that names are being cut to steal elections is now in the Supreme Court. The public record shows a large revision, a thin appeal rate, and no judgment that an election was stolen.
In April the Lok Sabha defeated the constitutional package that would have enlarged the House and redrawn seats. The arithmetic has not changed. Any new sitting starts from 298 against a wall of 352.
Population is not a neutral ruler for Parliament. States that spent decades lowering fertility would lose share in the House even if they gained a few seats on a larger map.
Retail inflation was 5.54 percent in September, food inflation 7.74 percent, and the price of onion was 108 percent higher than a year earlier. Rural households faced 6.08 percent. Cities faced 4.88.
Parliament's public accounts committee moved against the chief secretaries of six states who did not show up to explain scholarship delays the auditor had already flagged. The students had waited years.
From 1 October, subsidised cooking gas requires a biometric Aadhaar check. The Delhi High Court has asked the Centre to answer a disabled lawyer who says the rule locks people out. The next date is 18 November.
Abhijeet Dipke turned a judge's slight against unemployed youth into the Cockroach Janta Party. It helped push out an education minister in July. In October its leaders are in custody over the voter rolls.
Federal filings show Elon Musk gave 158 million dollars in September to the Republican Senate committee's super PAC. The same sum moved on to the effort to elect Ken Paxton in Texas.
Two weeks after the first protest, India's voter-roll fight has become a fight over the right to protest itself. The Election Commission has removed about 130 million names from the rolls. Delhi Police has taken away Jantar Mantar and replaced it with a venue that costs lakhs to book. The Supreme Court is already hearing petitions on mass detentions and alle
Starlink awaits final approvals in India. Spectrum, security and pricing rules must be public, fair and in citizens' interest.
GST reforms cut arrests and ease refunds. Welcome, but the public needs safeguards, costs and proof of who gains.
Price pressure now covers over a third of the basket. Families worry, and the state must show its plan.
The RBI raised rates to 5.50%. Borrowers feel it first, savers later. The public needs data on who gains.
Opposition MPs, courts and protesters now press the CEC controversy. Citizens deserve open voter-list data and an independent inquiry.
The US suspended eight firms from green card steps and probed universities. Workers bear the cost; evidence must be public.
India targets $1 trillion in exports in a slow world. Jobs, small firms and trade-deal terms need public scrutiny.
The rupee nears a record low as yield gaps narrow and deficits widen. Citizens need clear data.
Mass protests, deleted voters and rows inside the Commission show why trust, not just rules, keeps elections credible.
Household demand under VB-G RAM G jumped 34% in September, but work actually delivered fell sharply from last year.
A record $133 billion inflow should have helped India. Instead it complicates the RBI's fight against inflation.
The weakest monsoon since 2015 hurts incomes, prices and demand. Water, insurance and procurement decide who bears the loss.
A US report and India's Finance Ministry share one lesson: fair rules for everyone matter more than favours.
Leaderless, online-born movements are testing how Indian law and policing treat peaceful dissent in the capital.
Millions of names left India's rolls. Only a transparent statistical audit can show whether the removals were fair.
Police detained hundreds at Jantar Mantar on 2 October as Gen Z groups, student unions and opposition parties demanded the removal of the Chief Election Commissioner over SIR voter-roll deletions. The Commission denies wrongdoing. What settles this is data nobody has yet published, not slogans or detentions.
Indian equities had their worst session in months on 1 October, with the Sensex touching a 2026 low. One day is a bad day, not a crash. But a rate hike is now the base case, oil is near $100, and the rupee is under pressure. The real test starts when markets reopen after the Gandhi Jayanti holiday.
Households seeking work under the new VB-G RAM G rose 34% to 15.64 million in September, driven by a weak monsoon. But person-days actually generated fell to 8.65 crore from 11.99 crore a year earlier. The gap between demand and delivery is the first real test of the scheme that replaced MGNREGA.
A violent cockpit incident sent a Dubai-Tel Aviv flight into a dramatic descent, exposing new questions about aviation security and regional geopolitics.
Falling reservoir levels reveal deeper pressures on India’s farms, cities, groundwater, energy security and economic future.
Iran's foreign minister proposed reopening the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if conditions are met. India's oil imports sit directly in the balance.
A fresh plea asks the Supreme Court to prosecute CEC Gyanesh Kumar and order an SIT probe into SIR voter deletions nationwide.
NIA dropped UAPA charges against an American and six Ukrainians accused of training armed groups. Opposition calls it capitulation to US pressure.
AISA-led protesters gathered at Jantar Mantar demanding Gyanesh Kumar's arrest over SIR irregularities. Police detained dozens, citing no permission for the assembly.
A new WHO report says ethics checks on AI health research must continue well past the approval stage. India has new rules for AI medical software, but oversight of research still has gaps.
The 9th India International Water Week promoted climate-resilient water management. Official data shows rural taps and river clean-up still falling short of the promise.
Bulk sugar users can now hold 30 days of stock instead of 15, but only if the extra comes from imports. The rule protects households on paper and faces a timing test.
India co-sponsored the new Partners for Multilateralism grouping at the UN. It is cheap, useful diplomacy, but it cannot change who holds power on the Security Council.
Indian Railways cleared four works worth ₹736 crore on 19 September, led by Kavach on 607.7 km in Lucknow Division. Here is the cost breakdown, and why Kavach took so long.
PMKKKY has sanctioned 4.70 lakh projects worth over ₹1 lakh crore since 2015. Official data and audits show a wide gap between money approved, spent and delivered.
Semicon 2.0 has drawn about ₹1 lakh crore in investment commitments and Odisha plans a chip hub at Naraj. Semicon 1.0's record shows why pledges need tracking.
Peak electricity demand hit a record 270.82 GW in May 2026. The grid held by day, but evening shortfalls and state-level outages show how thin the margins are.
Most new three-wheelers are now electric, but car buyers leaving petrol are mostly choosing CNG. India's EV shift is really three transitions moving at different speeds.
A year after the GST rate cuts, prices of many goods have crept back up. Vehicle sales boomed, but clothing and packaged goods tell a different story.
Months after losing power, Mamata Banerjee wants a fresh Bengal election on the pre-SIR roll. The deletion numbers are real, but her remedy and the arrest demand hit hard legal limits.
The youth outfit whose sit-in ended with an education minister’s exit wants Gyanesh Kumar gone in 48 hours. The ultimatum has no force, but its call to change how the EC is picked is already in court.
Internal notes show two of India’s three election commissioners repeatedly objected to decisions taken during the voter-roll revision. The EC says every decision was unanimous.
Delhi has a new "proactive" pollution plan for winter 2026. But last year's numbers show the same old pattern: acting only after the air already turned toxic.
The Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) election results for 2026 are out, and the numbers tell a clear story. ABVP has swept three out of four central posts, with Yash Dabas as President, Riya Chhawdi as Secretary, and Lakshay Raj Singh as Joint Secretary. But the biggest talking point of this election is Independent candidate Deepanshu Shokeen, who def
India launched a voluntary Net Zero Portal and climate dashboard on World Ozone Day, raising a real question — does self-reported climate data mean anything?
Modi launched SEMICON India 2026 and announced a $13.5 billion second phase of the chip mission, as India's first factories start shipping real chips.
Congress passed a bipartisan bill letting Trump impose 100% tariffs on Russian oil buyers, restoring power the Supreme Court had struck down in February.
The Delhi summit put a Healthy Lifestyle Mission on the BRICS table. For India, that means fighting yesterday’s malnutrition and tomorrow’s diabetes at the same time.
With oil expensive and the West Asia crisis biting, the Prime Minister asked Indians to treat foreign exchange like a national reserve — less fuel, less gold, fewer foreign trips, more local buying.
Free UPI for small payments stays. Above ₹2,000, merchant fees are coming back. The politics is about keeping digital India cheap for people — while finally paying the pipes that carry the money.
After the Delhi summit, Xi Jinping floated market integration, open-source AI, SEZs and factory upgrades for BRICS. In India, those ideas read less like cooperation and more like old red flags with a new logo.
India is hosting the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi on September 12 and 13, its fourth time chairing the group and the biggest yet, with 11 full members and 10 partner countries attending. The event puts Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a delicate position: leading a bloc built partly around resistance to Western dominance, while trying not to damage India's
Russia now supplies a record share of India's crude oil imports, even as the United States keeps tying that relationship to ongoing tariff disputes with New Delhi. The numbers explain why India is reluctant to change course, and why Washington is unlikely to stop pushing back anytime soon.
India is consolidating 29 separate labour laws into four unified codes, one of the most ambitious workplace reforms in the country's history. Officially notified in November 2025 and rolling out through 2030, the changes aim to simplify compliance for businesses while closing long-standing loopholes that let employers reduce worker benefits.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin held bilateral talks in New Delhi on September 11, their second meeting in under two weeks, just ahead of the BRICS summit. The discussion centred on trade, energy, and defence, and comes at a moment when India is trying to protect its long standing partnership with Moscow while managing press
The 26th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Bishkek brought together all 10 member-state leaders, produced a 28-document package including a formal declaration condemning US-Israeli strikes on Iran, and offered a visible — if cautious — signal of thawing China-India relations.
India's Q1 FY27 GDP grew 7.8%, beating the RBI's own forecast and headline expectations. But a persistent gap between nominal and real growth, a contested base-year revision, and a narrow growth base are all raising the question: how real is this number?
MoSPI has launched the Index of Services Production (ISP), India's first high-frequency monthly indicator for the formal services sector — filling a data gap that left policymakers guessing about more than half of India's economy in real time.
India's two-decade-old rural jobs guarantee, MGNREGA, has been formally repealed and replaced by the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025, effective July 1, 2026 — raising the employment guarantee from 100 to 125 days but restructuring how rural India's biggest welfare scheme actually works.
In the space of seven months, Washington quintupled tariffs on Indian goods over Russian oil purchases, then cut them nearly two-thirds after a single phone call — a whiplash episode that exposed how personal, and how fragile, US-India trade policy has become.
After two years of consultation, India has paused its landmark Big Tech regulation bill for fresh market studies — a reset that reveals how hard it is to write rules for markets that change faster than legislation can.
Beyond the constitutional mechanics of One Nation, One Election lies a quieter, more consequential question — whether synchronising every ballot in the country will hollow out the state-level politics that has defined Indian democracy since the 1990s.
A bill to synchronise every election in India has cleared its first parliamentary hurdle and is now before a Joint Committee — reviving a fight over efficiency, federalism, and what "one nation" should really mean in a country of 28 states.
As caste-based quotas near their eighth decade, a new generation of protesters — organising online under banners like the Reservation Hatao Andolan (RHA) — is demanding that the system be reviewed, capped, or replaced with economic criteria, reigniting one of India's oldest and most emotionally charged political debates.
After youth-led protests forced a minister's resignation, India's ruling establishment has launched a scramble to speak Gen Z's language on Instagram — through reels, slang, and selfie videos — with decidedly mixed results so far.
Every year on August 15, India celebrates its freedom from nearly 200 years of British colonial rule. But the date itself carries a strange, lesser-known story — one involving a departing Viceroy's ego, a nervous astrologer, a rushed border line drawn by a man who had never set foot in India, and a midnight speech that changed the course of history. This is
India is approaching a demographic transformation that could reshape its economy, families and villages. A new white paper by Transform Rural India projects that nearly one in five Indians could be aged 60 or above by 2050, with almost 70% of the country's elderly living in rural areas. The numbers reveal a problem much larger than pensions or hospitals: Ind
The images emerging from Ranchi after the confrontation between protesting students and Jharkhand Police are deeply disturbing: injured protesters, allegations of lathi\-charge, tear gas and water cannons, and young people struggling to make themselves heard outside the seat of government\. The students were protesting over allegations and concerns surroundi
The Centre spent ₹3.4 trillion on capital expenditure during April–June, accounting for around 28% of the ₹12.22 trillion capex budget for FY27. The strong first-quarter pace signals the government's continued reliance on public investment to support economic growth despite global trade disruptions and geopolitical uncertainty. Sustained capital spending cou
The Reserve Bank of India’s special foreign exchange mobilisation measures have attracted $40.81 billion in inflows so far, strengthening the country’s external financial position and reinforcing efforts to support the rupee and foreign exchange reserves.
Fresh water tests conducted by activists have raised concerns over sewage contamination in several neighbourhoods around the former Union Carbide plant, reviving questions about public health and infrastructure in one of India’s most enduring industrial disaster zones.
