Author: Ritik Raushan

The Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025, India’s successor rural employment legislation to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), is entering its implementation phase with significant institutional uncertainties. As reported in The Hindu of March 20, 2026, at least 24 States and Union Territories have earmarked funds…

India’s Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC) system — the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) as an indigenous alternative to the US Global Positioning System (GPS) — is facing an acute operational crisis. As of March 2026, only three satellites in the constellation remain capable of providing…

The military conflict that began on February 28, 2026, when the United States and Israel launched coordinated air strikes on Iran, has escalated dramatically through March 2026 into one of the most significant geopolitical crises of the decade. Israeli strikes on Iran’s South Pars gas field — one of the largest known gas reservoirs in…

On March 20, 2026, Indian equity markets experienced their worst single-session decline since June 2024, with the BSE Sensex crashing over 3.26 percent to close at 74,207.24 points and the Nifty 50 closing at 23,002.15 points. The crash was triggered by a confluence of two major external shocks: Brent crude oil prices surging to $114…

On March 13, 2026, the Union government tabled the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026 in the Lok Sabha, triggering one of the most significant constitutional controversies in recent memory. The Bill proposes to fundamentally alter the existing framework of gender self-identification, which was established under the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act,…

Nearly three years after two Kuki-Zo women were disrobed, paraded, and gang-raped by a mob in Manipur’s Thoubal district on May 4, 2023, an attack in which the brother and father of one of the survivors were also killed, three of the accused in the case remain absconding, two have been released on bail by…

A Supreme Court Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant directed the Union government on March 15, 2026, to revisit its existing policy framework and explore better mechanisms to incentivise farmers to diversify from conventional crops like wheat and paddy to pulses. The court directed the Centre, through its Ministries of Agriculture, Commerce,…

The Rajasthan Legislative Assembly passed the Rajasthan Prohibition of Transfer of Immovable Property in Disturbed Areas Bill on March 6, 2026, by voice vote. The legislation seeks to regulate property transactions in areas that the state government declares as disturbed, requiring prior approval from the District Magistrate or Collector before any immovable property, including land,…

The 30th session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, held in Belém, Brazil, in November 2025 and branded the COP of Implementation, marked a decisive shift in global climate governance. For the first time, global adaptation indicators integrated water, sanitation, and hygiene into climate accountability under the UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience, establishing…

The Office of the United States Trade Representative announced on March 11, 2026, that it had initiated investigations against sixteen economies, including India, under Section 301(b) of the Trade Act of 1974, examining whether these economies were using excess manufacturing capacity to export to the United States in a manner that was hurting American businesses….