Polity & Governance GS2
- Supreme Court’s commission report details torn nominations and bogus voting in Punjab civic polls
9 October 2026 New Delhi, October 8. The 239-page report of the one-man fact-finding Commission appointed by the Supreme Court, former Punjab and Haryana High Court…
- Chhattisgarh High Court seeks State’s reply on staying the 2026 Freedom of Religion Act
9 October 2026 Raipur, October 8. A Chhattisgarh High Court Bench of Chief Justice Krushna Ram Mohapatra and Justice Santosh Sharma has given the State three weeks…
- Centre asks Supreme Court to void Jharkhand’s DGP rules under Prakash Singh directions
8 October 2026 New Delhi, October 7. The Union government has asked the Supreme Court to declare illegal Jharkhand’s 2025 regulation for selecting its Director…
- Delhi Police’s Jantar Mantar rules and BNSS detention powers test the right to protest
8 October 2026 New Delhi, October 7. Delhi Police have refused permission for an October 10 rally at Jantar Mantar called by the Cockroach Janta Party with Left and…
- Karnataka cites the Centre’s Indus Waters stand to seek reopening of the Cauvery award
8 October 2026 New Delhi, October 7. Answering Tamil Nadu’s complaint of a backlog in Cauvery releases, Karnataka has told the Supreme Court it may seek to reopen…
- High Court orders CBI probe into Punjab CM’s office; Punjab pleads federalism
7 October 2026 Chandigarh, October 6. A day after a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to…
- ED arrests suspended Karnataka PSC chairman and a member in recruitment racket
7 October 2026 Bengaluru, October 6. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday arrested Shivashankarappa S. Sahukar, suspended chairman of the Karnataka Public…
- Press Council at half strength for a year as I&B delays 13 notifications
7 October 2026 New Delhi, October 6. The Press Council of India (PCI) has worked at half its sanctioned strength for nearly a year without a single working…
- Supreme Court closes 23-year-old Hindu privilege reference as infructuous; free-speech question left open
7 October 2026 New Delhi, October 6. The case previewed here on October 1 has ended without a ruling. A seven-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya…
- Bihar makes women married into the State prove caste from their parents’ address
6 October 2026 Patna, October 5. The Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) has ruled that “married women, who wish to avail quota, will have to produce their…
- Supreme Court issues notice on plea to suspend CEC, disowns modified Form 6
6 October 2026 New Delhi, October 5. A Bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V. Mohana issued notice on two petitions seeking the…
- Delhi High Court: a valid visa gives no legally enforceable right to enter India
5 October 2026 New Delhi. Justice Amit Mahajan of the Delhi High Court on September 30 dismissed the petition of a Turkmenistan citizen who landed at Indira Gandhi…
- Election Commission lets EROs clear SIR notice cases without hearing, even without BLO documents
5 October 2026 New Delhi. The Election Commission has added three options in ERONET, its roll-management software, for Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) in the…
- CAPF Act reserves half of IG posts for deputation; contempt cases join its challenge
5 October 2026 New Delhi. A Supreme Court bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and A. S. Chandurkar was to hear contempt petitions on September 29, alleging that the…
- Supreme Court Cancels Judges’ Meeting With Parliamentary Committee on One Nation One Election Bill
3 October 2026 New Delhi. The Supreme Court on Thursday declined a proposed October 6 interaction between the Chief Justice of India, other judges and the Joint…
- Centre Notifies Members of Tribunals Rules, 2026 to Run the New National Tribunals Commission
3 October 2026 New Delhi. The Union Law Ministry issued on September 30, and published on Thursday, the National Tribunals Commission and Qualification, Selection…
- Gujarat’s Uniform Civil Code Gets President’s Assent and Is Gazetted; Enforcement Date Awaited
3 October 2026 Gandhinagar. President Droupadi Murmu gave assent on September 17 to the Gujarat Uniform Civil Code Bill, 2026, and the Act appeared in the gazette…
- Judicial commission calls Indore water deaths preventable, blames 859-day tender delays
2 October 2026 Bhopal, October 1. A one-member Judicial Commission, former Madhya Pradesh High Court judge Sushil Kumar Gupta, has told the High Court’s Indore…
- Andhra Pradesh High Court strikes down 34% BC local-body quota over 50% cap
2 October 2026 Vijayawada, October 1. A Division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, Chief Justice Lisa Gill and Justice Challa Gunaranjan, set aside Government…
- EC orders probe into bulk Form 7 deletions, special drive for left-out voters
2 October 2026 Bengaluru and New Delhi, October 1. The Election Commission (EC) ordered a probe into Form 7s, the forms that object to a name on the roll, filed in…
- Seven-judge Bench to decide from October 6 whether legislative privilege overrides free speech
1 October 2026 New Delhi. A seven-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on October 6 a case pending since 2003 on whether a legislature…
- EC reverts online Form 6 as Form 10 data show agents beat the 10-a-day cap
30 September 2026 New Delhi. The Election Commission (EC) has reverted to the original online Form 6, the application for fresh voter registration, in States where the…
- Supreme Court quashes Sambhal accused’s NSA detention, rules police-custody confession cannot justify it
30 September 2026 New Delhi. On September 29 the Supreme Court quashed the detention of Mulla Afroz under the National Security Act (NSA), 1980, and ordered Uttar…
- Amit Shah to Chair Odisha–Chhattisgarh Meeting on Mahanadi Dispute as States Shift to Direct Talks
29 September 2026 Bhubaneswar. Union Home Minister Amit Shah will preside over a meeting on October 1 to discuss the resolution of the Mahanadi river water-sharing…
- PRS Data Show MPs From Reserved Seats Took Part in Fewer Lok Sabha Debates Than Peers
29 September 2026 New Delhi. An analysis by The Hindu of PRS Legislative Research’s MP Track data for the 18th Lok Sabha, covering June 24, 2024 to August 23, 2026,…
- Supreme Court Asks Centre to Use IT Rules to Bar Under-18s From Opening Social Media Accounts
29 September 2026 New Delhi. The Supreme Court on Monday, September 28, asked the Union government to put in place statutory rules so that social media platforms and…
- Maharashtra’s Poll Chief Asks ECINet to Restore EROs’ Discretion, and the EC’s Nine-Point Note Partly Concedes
29 September 2026 Mumbai and New Delhi. Maharashtra’s Chief Electoral Officer S. Chockalingam wrote to the Election Commission of India (ECI) on September 24 seeking…
- Only 233 of 1,114 High Court Judges Came From the District Judiciary, and the Supreme Court Has None
29 September 2026 New Delhi. The elevation of seven district judges to the Delhi High Court has again drawn attention to how few judicial officers reach the higher…
- Home Ministry’s Demography Panel Seeks 15 Years of Religion-Wise Data, and States Say They Cannot Supply It
29 September 2026 New Delhi. State governments are unable to answer most of the questions sent to them by a high-level panel studying demographic changes, because…
- Supreme Court’s Mandatory FIR for Every Missing Person Stretches a Child-Protection Rule to Adults
28 September 2026 New Delhi. Former IPS officer R.K. Vij, writing in The Hindu on Monday, September 28, argues that the Supreme Court’s recent directions on missing…
- Monsoon Session’s 46-Day Sine Die Gap Without Prorogation Is the Third-Longest in Lok Sabha History
28 September 2026 New Delhi. At 46 days and counting, the Eighth Session of the 18th Lok Sabha — the Monsoon Session — has seen the third-longest sine die adjournment…
- Tamil Nadu Withdraws Within a Week Its Order Exempting the Law and Order Department From the RTI Act
28 September 2026 Chennai. The Tamil Nadu government on Sunday, September 27, withdrew a Government Order that had exempted the Public (Law and Order) Department from…
- Meenakshi Natarajan Case Asks Whether Form 26’s 2018 Amendment Exceeds Section 33A of the RP Act
28 September 2026 New Delhi. An opinion article in The Hindu on Monday, September 28, by Vanshaj Azad, an advocate who works as a Law Clerk-cum-Research Associate at…
- Goa’s 97 Voters Dropped by ECINet Software Revive the Case for Making Voting a Fundamental Right
28 September 2026 New Delhi. The Hindu’s ‘Letter & Spirit’ page on Monday, September 28, asks whether the ‘right to vote’ should be raised from a statutory right to a…
- Omar Abdullah Moves J&K Statehood Resolution Building on the 2000 Autonomy Resolution; BJP Tears Copies
26 September 2026 Srinagar. J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday, the fourth day of the autumn session, moved a resolution in the Supplementary List of Business…
- Karnataka Accuses Centre of Withholding ₹2,186.20 Crore in 15th Finance Commission Panchayat Grants Over Portal Gaps
26 September 2026 Bengaluru. Karnataka’s Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister, Eshwar B. Khandre, on Friday questioned the Centre’s decision to withhold…
- West Bengal’s Anti-Goonda Bill: President Returned It, Says ET; Still With MHA, Says Chief Minister
26 September 2026 Kolkata. The two papers carry conflicting accounts of the fate of the West Bengal Public Safety and Control of Anti-Social Activities Bill, 2026,…
- Scholars Say Anoop Baranwal Already Binds the 2023 EC Law as the Commission’s Dissent Goes Public
26 September 2026 New Delhi. Following the 24 and 25 September cards on the Supreme Court’s split and the Opposition’s removal plan, what is new today is a doctrinal…
- Census 2027 Records Caste in an Open Column; Centre Yet to Decide How to Tabulate It
26 September 2026 New Delhi. More than a month after the Union government notified the questionnaire for the second phase of Census 2027, finalising an open-column…
- Ashok Lavasa Seeks Court-Monitored Probe, CAG Audits and Spending Cap for ‘Shell’ Political Parties
25 September 2026 New Delhi. Former Election Commissioner and former Union Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa argues in an op-ed in The Hindu, “The murky world of…
- CIC Tells UPSC and DoPT to Resume Publishing Paper-Wise Civil Services Marks Stopped Since 2018
25 September 2026 New Delhi. The Central Information Commission (CIC) has recommended reinstating the practice of publishing the detailed break-up of marks obtained by…
- Chhattisgarh Churches Put Up ‘Enter at Own Risk’ Boards as Freedom of Religion Act, 2026 Takes Effect
25 September 2026 Raipur/Dhamtari. Churches in Dhamtari, Chhattisgarh, have put up noticeboards telling non-Christians that they enter at their own risk, a month after…
- Assam Cabinet Notifies Rules Making Registration of Every Muslim Marriage Compulsory Through Government Officials
25 September 2026 Guwahati. The Assam Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, on Thursday, September 24, approved the Assam Muslim Marriage…
- ADR Counts 111 Legislators Who Switched Parties Since 2022 as Supreme Court Upholds Telangana MLA’s Disqualification
25 September 2026 New Delhi. A total of 111 sitting MPs and MLAs changed their political parties after being elected to the current Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and State…
- Opposition Drafts Fresh Motion to Remove CEC Gyanesh Kumar, Testing Article 324(5)’s High Bar
25 September 2026 New Delhi. The Opposition will soon move a fresh notice in both Houses of Parliament to remove Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar,…
- Tulu Becomes Second Additional Administrative Language in Coastal Karnataka; SC Presses Centre on Class 6 Relief
24 September 2026 Bengaluru and New Delhi. The Indian Express today explains a decision taken last week and carded here on September 21: Karnataka’s D K Shivakumar-led…
- Supreme Court Stays Strictures and ₹5 Lakh Salary Penalty on Noida DM Over Student’s NSA Detention
24 September 2026 New Delhi, September 23. A Supreme Court bench of Justices Satish Chandra Sharma and N K Singh stayed the operation of the Allahabad High Court’s…
- Road-Accident Compensation Explained, as Supreme Court Values a Homemaker’s Care at ₹30,000 a Month
24 September 2026 New Delhi. The Hindu’s explainer today, by New Delhi lawyers Kartikey Singh and Barkha Dwivedi, sets out how India compensates road-crash victims and…
- Supreme Court Splits on Referring EC Appointment Law; Justice Datta Invokes ‘Perception Test’, Defends Collegium
24 September 2026 New Delhi, September 23. A two-judge Bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Satish Chandra Sharma split 1-1 on the Centre’s plea to refer petitions…
- Election Commission Calls Every Decision ‘Unanimous’; Former CECs Invoke Section 18 as Annual Roll Revision Stalls
24 September 2026 New Delhi, September 23. This magazine carded The Indian Express investigation on September 23: Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek…
- 20 MPs Who Left Trinamool for the NCPI Seek Four More Weeks on Disqualification Notices
23 September 2026 New Delhi. Twenty Lok Sabha MPs who quit the Trinamool Congress and aligned themselves with the NCPI have asked for four more weeks to respond to…
- Constituent Assembly’s 1948 UCC Debate Revisited as Mizoram BJP MLA Breaks With Anti-UCC Resolution
23 September 2026 New Delhi and Guwahati. The Indian Express on Wednesday revisited the Constituent Assembly’s debate of November 23, 1948 on what was then draft…
- Supreme Court Calls U.P. Gangsters Act ‘Still-Born’, Reaffirming That Only the Legislature Can Create a Crime
23 September 2026 New Delhi. In an article in The Hindu on September 23, B.B. Pande, a former Professor of Law at Delhi University, examines a Supreme Court ruling of…
- Two Election Commissioners Record 14 Objections in 10 Months, Call Form 6 Change ‘Unauthorised and Illegal’
23 September 2026 New Delhi. Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi objected in writing at least 14 times over 10 months, four times on a single…
- Supreme Court Says State May Fix Vande Mataram’s Stanzas but Cannot Prosecute Conscientious Objectors
23 September 2026 New Delhi. The Supreme Court on Tuesday, September 22, asked the Union government to respond to Carnatic vocalist T.M. Krishna’s challenge to the…
- Karnataka High Court Orders De Novo SIT Probe Into KPSC Scam, Calls PSC ‘Constitutional Sentinel’
22 September 2026 Bengaluru. On Monday, September 21, Justice M. Nagaprasanna of the Karnataka High Court directed that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by…
- Supreme Court Strikes Down Maharashtra Methanol Colourant Rules as Disproportionate, Issues Anti-Hooch Guidelines
22 September 2026 New Delhi. The Hindu’s explainer reports that on September 18, a Bench including Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran struck down Rules 18A…
- Hindu Editorial: 93% of Decided West Bengal SIR Appeals Restored Wrongly Deleted Electors
22 September 2026 New Delhi / Kolkata. In an editorial titled “Presumed ineligible”, The Hindu argues that the Election Commission of India (ECI) must end its method…
- Centre Proposes Article 371K Giving Ladakh a Directly Elected Body With Legislative and Financial Powers
22 September 2026 New Delhi / Leh. The Indian Express reports that the Centre has proposed inserting a new provision, Article 371K, in the Constitution to provide…
- Supreme Court Holds Arrest Without Written Grounds Unconstitutional, Makes Magistrate’s Sanction Mandatory for Any Re-arrest
22 September 2026 New Delhi. On Monday, September 21, a Bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Atul S. Chandurkar ruled that an arrested person who was not told the…
- ED Examines TMC’s ₹5.22 Crore Advance for Charter Flights Not Yet Flown, Freezes Six Party Accounts
21 September 2026 New Delhi. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is examining advance payments totalling ₹5.22 crore made by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) for aviation…
- Karnataka Cabinet Grants Tulu Additional Official Language Status in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi
21 September 2026 Mangaluru, Karnataka. The Karnataka Cabinet, meeting in Mangaluru on September 18, decided to accord additional official (administrative) language…
- Delhi SIR Notices Reach an Election Commissioner, L.K. Advani, S. Jaishankar and a Dead Economist
21 September 2026 New Delhi. The special intensive revision (SIR) of Delhi’s electoral roll — a fresh, house-to-house re-verification of every elector rather than the…
- Governor Withholds Assent on a State Universities Bill While Tamil Nadu Refuses Land for Navodaya Schools
19 September 2026 Tamil Nadu Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar has sought clarifications from the State government on provisions of the Tamil Nadu Private…
- Two State Public Service Commissions Under Investigation in One Week — Karnataka and Jharkhand
19 September 2026 The chairman of the Karnataka Public Service Commission, Shivashankarappa S Sahukar, 61, was suspended by Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot on 25 August…
- Over 37 Lakh Special Intensive Revision Appeals Still Pending in West Bengal's Tribunals, EC Tells the Supreme Court
19 September 2026 The Election Commission has informed the Supreme Court that over 37 lakh of a total 38 lakh appeals arising out of the Special Intensive Revision of…
- Telangana High Court Disqualifies a Legislator Under the Tenth Schedule After the Speaker Declined To
19 September 2026 The Telangana High Court has set aside the Speaker's decision and disqualified Danam Nagender, who was elected as MLA from Khairatabad on a Bharat…
- Election Commission Freezes 'All India Trinamool Congress' and Its Symbol, Gives Both Factions New Ones
19 September 2026 The Election Commission of India on Friday barred both factions of the Trinamool Congress — one led by Mamata Banerjee and the other led by Ritabrata…
- FCRA Amendment Bill Before the Joint Committee — Who Takes the Assets, and After Whose Hearing?
19 September 2026 At the first meeting of Parliament's Joint Committee on the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, members questioned the proposed…
- PAC Pulls Up Railways Over Passenger Amenities Despite CAG Findings Since 2007
18 September 2026 The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Thursday expressed concern over persistent deficiencies in passenger amenities and sanitation across railway…
- Preventive Detention Under Scrutiny: Allahabad HC Warns of 'Orwellian Dystopia' Over Goondas Act and NSA Misuse
18 September 2026 In an editorial reviewing the week's judicial developments, The Economic Times reported that the Allahabad High Court came down heavily on the Uttar…
- FCRA Amendment Bill Before a Joint Committee, While Courts Push Back on How the Existing Law Is Used
18 September 2026 The Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026 was listed to hold its first meeting on Thursday, per…
- EC Freezes Trinamool's Name and Symbol for Both Factions Ahead of Bypolls
18 September 2026 The Election Commission on Thursday barred both factions of the Trinamool Congress from using the party symbol and name in the coming Assembly…
- Two Supreme Court Orders in One Day on Language, Schooling and Federalism
18 September 2026 In two separate matters on Thursday, the Supreme Court engaged the language question in school education. A Bench of Justices B.V. Nagarathna and…
- Delhi SIR: Supreme Court Gives 'Precedence' to Plea on 33 Lakh Notices and Undefined 'Logical Discrepancies'
18 September 2026 The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to give 'precedence' in hearing to a writ petition raising discrepancies in the conduct of the Special Intensive…
- Delhi HC: Satya Niketan Building Collapse 'Not an Ordinary Mishap'
17 September 2026 Hearing a plea seeking an independent probe into the September 6 collapse of a multi-storey PG building in Satya Niketan that killed seven people…
- 'Census Town' Definition Is Outdated, Ministry Tells Its Own Panel
17 September 2026 The Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry has told a Parliamentary Standing Committee that the four-decade-old criteria used to classify 'Census Towns'…
- Mining Amendment Act, 2026 — a Fresh Centre-State Flashpoint
17 September 2026 An Opinion-page critique in The Hindu argues the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act (MMDR), 2026 is 'unfair to States.' At…
- SIR Deletions — Elector Numbers Fall Below 2025 Turnout in a Third of Delhi's Seats
17 September 2026 A Hindu Data Point analysis finds that in more than one-third of Delhi's 70 Assembly constituencies, deletions under the Special Intensive Revision…
- "A University Is Meant for Dissent" — a Retired Judge on Civil Liberties and Protest
16 September 2026 Retired Supreme Court judge Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia tells The Indian Express that a university exists precisely to raise dissenting voices — 'agar…
- Kishau Multipurpose Dam Pact — Cooperative Federalism Over an 8-Year Deadlock
16 September 2026 Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi signed an MoU for the ₹15,624-crore, 422 MW Kishau Multipurpose Project on…
- Uniform Civil Code — the Fight Over the Route (Parliament vs 'Backdoor')
16 September 2026 J&K CM Omar Abdullah tells the BJP the UCC should be enacted through Parliament, not brought in piecemeal, state by state — a swipe at Union Home…
- Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Electoral Rolls — the Jharkhand Numbers
16 September 2026 The Hindu reports that Jharkhand's SIR claims-and-objections deadline has been extended a second time, from September 4 to September 15 and now to…