On the eve of vote counting for the West Bengal Assembly elections, the Supreme Court of India dismissed a petition filed by the Trinamool Congress alleging that the Election Commission of India was deliberately favouring the Bharatiya Janata Party by deploying Central government employees at counting centres. The petition challenged an April 13 circular issued…
A detailed investigative report published in The Hindu on May 2, 2026 documented a systematic and expanding infrastructure of content takedowns targeting social media accounts, YouTube channels, and online news outlets critical of governments at both the central and state levels. The report described how dozens of accounts, including those with hundreds of thousands of…
The Karnataka government operationalised a specialised grievance redressal mechanism for platform-based gig workers through the Integrated Public Grievance Redressal System portal, marking the first formal digital dispute resolution infrastructure for the gig economy in India. Developed by the Karnataka Platform-based Gig Workers’ Board in collaboration with the Department of e-Governance, the mechanism allows gig workers…
India recorded a peak power demand of 256.1 gigawatts on April 25, 2026, with thermal plants accounting for 66.9 percent of generation and solar power contributing 21.5 percent on that day. The India Meteorological Department has simultaneously warned that El Nino conditions are likely to prevail during most of the monsoon months from June to…
The United Arab Emirates formally announced its exit from the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and the OPEC+ grouping on April 28, 2026, giving only three days’ notice of its departure effective May 1, in a development that took global energy markets and diplomatic observers by surprise. The announcement came in a specific geopolitical…
India’s Goods and Services Tax collections reached an unprecedented all-time high of ₹2.43 lakh crore in April 2026, surpassing the previous record by a substantial margin and registering a year-on-year growth of 8.7 percent compared to April 2025. The government and tax experts hailed this as a sign of the GST regime’s resilience and maturity,…
The Supreme Court of India granted anticipatory bail to Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera in a criminal case filed on a complaint by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s wife, Riniki Bhuyan Sharma. The two-judge bench headed by Justice J.K. Maheshwari, also comprising Justice Atul S. Chandurkar, in a detailed 22-page order published on May 1,…
India’s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with New Zealand, concluded in December 2025, has emerged as one of the most strategically significant trade agreements of the current decade, and the editorial analysis in today’s Hindu provides a comprehensive assessment of its six key dimensions. Negotiated in under nine months — with discussions launched in March 2025…
A pioneering project at the Deendayal Port Authority (DPA) in Kandla, Gujarat, is set to produce India’s first green methanol — a marine biofuel produced not from fossil fuels but from Prosopis juliflora, an invasive Mexican-origin shrub that has for decades devastated Kutch’s Banni grasslands. The project, being built by Pune-based Thermax Energy with gasification…
International Labour Day, May 1, 2026, arrives against the backdrop of two events that collectively define the state of India’s working class in the post-reform era. On April 13, thousands of garment workers at Noida’s Phase 2 Hosiery Complex walked out of nearly 300 factories demanding a minimum monthly wage of ₹20,000 — an agitation…