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- Panna Tribals Hold Month-Long Jal Satyagraha Over Majhgaon Dam Compensation and Resettlement
9 October 2026 Panna, Madhya Pradesh. Since September 11, villagers of Ajaygarh sub-division have held a jal satyagraha (standing in water) at Banhari Kalan against…
- Supreme Court Seeks Centre’s Reply on “Systemic Failure” of Accessible Air Travel
8 October 2026 New Delhi. A three-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Wednesday, October 7, issued notice to the Ministry of Civil Aviation,…
- Sukma Gram Sabhas Invoke PESA to Bar Pastors and Deny Burial Land to Christians
7 October 2026 Raipur. At Punpalli village in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, a banner now bars pastors from religious activity and forbids conversion events, after…
- First National Household Travel Survey finds two-wheelers carry 43% of workers, buses carry women
6 October 2026 New Delhi, October 5. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) released India’s first National Household Travel Survey (NHTS),…
- Odisha frames guidelines to protect inheritance and property rights of persons with disabilities
5 October 2026 Odisha. In August the Odisha government framed three-page guidelines to protect the inheritance and property rights of persons with disabilities…
- Census 2027 Hindi notification calls disability “nihshaktata”; Registrar General calls it inadvertent
2 October 2026 New Delhi. Disability rights activists have objected to the term “nihshakt” (incapable) in Census 2027, calling it “derogatory” and “illegal”, The…
- Calcutta High Court holds casteist Facebook slurs are “within public view” under Atrocities Act
1 October 2026 Kolkata. A single bench of Justice Uday Kumar of the Calcutta High Court has held that casteist slurs on social media can attract the SC/ST…
- Some Maharashtra villages have not voted in panchayat polls for 60–70 years
30 September 2026 Pune. In parts of rural Maharashtra, gram panchayat members have been chosen “unopposed” for as long as 70 years, bypassing the ballot. In Angar,…
- NCERT’s new Class 9 book replaces European revolutions with medieval Indian ‘resistance’
30 September 2026 New Delhi. The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) on Tuesday, September 29, released Understanding Society: India and…
- AI-Made Fake Videos and Unverified Messages Trigger Clashes in Ujjain and Violence at Two Punjab Universities
29 September 2026 Ujjain and Jalandhar. Rumours on social media, including AI-generated videos, set off violence in two States, The Indian Express reports. In Ujjain,…
- Supreme Court Takes Suo Motu Cognisance of Delhi-NCR Sexual Violence, Orders Four-Week Safety Audit
29 September 2026 New Delhi. The Supreme Court on Monday, September 28, took suo motu cognisance of a spate of sexual assault cases against women and minors in the…
- Underwater Excavations off Poompuhar Recover a West Asian ‘Torpedo Jar’, Adding to Evidence of the Chola Port’s Sea Trade
28 September 2026 Poompuhar (Mayiladuthurai district, Tamil Nadu). An 18-day underwater exploration off Poompuhar, the ancient Chola port city, has recovered a…
- Women Are Only 5.5% of ITI Enrolment in Core Engineering Trades, a NITI Aayog Working Paper Finds
28 September 2026 Manesar (Haryana) / New Delhi. A new NITI Aayog working paper has found that women accounted for only 5.5% of enrolment in engineering trades such as…
- NCRB Data Show Under 2% of Rape Cases Sent to Trial End in Conviction the Same Year as Delhi’s Parks Lack Lights and Cameras
28 September 2026 New Delhi. An analysis of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data published by The Hindu shows that India still has a long way to go in delivering…
- Andhra Pradesh’s new Class 1-2 textbooks show men doing half of all household chores
26 September 2026 Hyderabad, September 25. Andhra Pradesh’s new textbooks for Classes 1 and 2 show household chores divided equally between men and women, as the State…
- Gurugram Registrar Orders Mahindra Aura RWA to Lift Ban on EWS Residents Using Common Parks
25 September 2026 Gurugram, Haryana. A resident welfare association (RWA) in a Gurugram housing society has barred occupants of its Economically Weaker Section (EWS)…
- Surinder Koli Found Dead Ten Months After Nithari Acquittal, Exposing India’s Missing Law on Wrongful Conviction
25 September 2026 New Delhi. Surinder Koli, the accused in the Nithari serial-killing cases of Noida, was found dead on September 18, 2026, The Hindu reports in a…
- Vidhi Centre Seeks a ‘Mixed-Use Educational Building’ Category for Delhi’s PGs and Coaching Centres
24 September 2026 New Delhi. After the Satya Niketan building collapse, which this magazine carried on September 17, The Hindu on Thursday published a prescription for…
- After Astha Kunj Gang-Rape, L-G Orders Park Safety Audits; DURGA Reserves E-Autos for Women, Transgender Persons
24 September 2026 New Delhi. Lieutenant-Governor (L-G) Taranjit Singh Sandhu on Wednesday, September 23, directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and the…
- President Murmu Asks Film Stars Not to Endorse Harmful Products, Seeks Social Security for Film Workers
23 September 2026 Ekta Nagar (Kevadia), Narmada district, Gujarat. President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday, September 22, urged popular film artistes not to endorse…
- Tamil Nadu Extends Free School Breakfast to Classes 6-8, Taking Coverage to 34.64 Lakh Children
23 September 2026 Chennai. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay on Tuesday, September 22, extended the State’s free breakfast programme to students of Classes 6…
- Jamui Mob Assault on Two Class 10 Students Brings POCSO Case, NCW Action, Three Arrests
22 September 2026 Jamui, Bihar. Two Class 10 students, a girl and a boy, were allegedly groped and assaulted by a group of men in Bihar’s Jamui district on Saturday,…
- Supreme Court’s Task Force Links Campus Suicides to Competition, Caste and Faculty Mismatch
22 September 2026 New Delhi / Mumbai. The Economic Times reports on the 211-page interim report of the National Task Force (NTF) on ‘Mental Health of Students and…
- EPW Study Finds Parents Acting as ‘Hindu Customers’ Push Majoritarian Rules Into Delhi’s Private Schools
22 September 2026 New Delhi. The Hindu’s Text & Context page summarises a paper by Ritika Arora-Kukreja, “Hindutva by Other Means: The Educational Market and the…
- Rajasthan Re-holds 2021 Sub-Inspector Exam Four Years After Paper Leak as Exam Integrity Turns Political
21 September 2026 Jaipur, Lucknow and New Delhi. The Rajasthan Police Sub-Inspector and Platoon Commander Recruitment Re-examination 2021 was held on Sunday across 11…
- IIT Bombay Student’s Death Sharpens the Fight Over UGC’s Stayed Caste-Equity Regulations
21 September 2026 Mumbai and New Delhi. Sahil Wakode, a 20-year-old second-year BTech student in IIT Bombay’s Department of Energy Science and Engineering, was found…
- POSH Complaints at Nifty 50 Companies Rise to 1,327 in FY26, the Third Straight Annual Increase
19 September 2026 An Economic Times analysis found that India's bellwether Nifty 50 companies reported a total of 1,327 complaints under the Prevention of Sexual…
- Third Bombay High Court Bench to Hear the Maratha 10% Quota Challenge From October 9
19 September 2026 The Bombay High Court said on Friday that it will begin hearing on October 9 the petitions for and against the Maharashtra State Reservation for…
- Declared Dead, 2,487 Odisha Construction Workers Return to Collect Their Ration
18 September 2026 The Hindu reported that a draft information system audit report on 'Implementation of PAReSHRAM and Nirman Sharamik Portal in the State', expected to…
- EAC-PM Paper Calls for Abandoning Population Control as an Objective of State Policy
18 September 2026 The Economic Times reported that India should abandon population control as an objective of state policy and realign its family planning framework…
- 'Academic Freedom Severely Restricted' Under Current Government, International Index Finds
17 September 2026 India's academic freedom has been 'severely restricted' under the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government, according to the annual 'Free to Think…
- Government Tells Delhi HC: Same-Sex Partner Can Be Nominated for Medical Decisions
17 September 2026 The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the National Medical Commission have told the Delhi High Court that a competent adult can…
- Government Backs Same-Sex Partner's Right to Take Medical Decisions
16 September 2026 In the Delhi High Court, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has supported a plea by a same-sex couple seeking the right to nominate…
- Manipur — Fresh Killings Show the Conflict Has Outgrown a Simple Meitei-Kuki Frame
16 September 2026 Two more Kuki-Zo civilians — both women — were killed by unidentified armed assailants in the Naga-majority Tamenglong-Jiribam belt, days after four…
- The Satya Niketan Hostel Collapse — Delhi's Unregulated Student-Housing Crisis
16 September 2026 IE's front-page feature ('Once There Were 5 Students') traces the lives of five Delhi University students — Pavan, Akshat, Arpit, Abhishek and…