On March 12, 2026, the Supreme Court of India delivered a landmark ruling in the case of Harish Rana, a 32-year-old man who had been in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) for nearly thirteen years following a fall from the fourth floor of his accommodation as a Panjab University student in 2013. A Bench of…
March 11, 2026 presents a convergence of three major national security and governance stories that are independently significant but analytically related. First, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh released the “Defence Forces Vision 2047: A Roadmap for a Future-Ready Indian Military” at South Block, outlining a long-term strategy to transform India’s armed forces into an integrated, technologically…
On March 11, 2026, a Supreme Court Bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta directed the Union government, through the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, to frame a no-fault compensation policy for serious adverse events following COVID-19 vaccinations. The judgment arose from petitions seeking compensation for deaths and disabilities caused by Adverse Events…
A landmark study published in the journal Nature by researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland and the Technical University of Munich in Germany has achieved a significant advance in synthetic biology: they have engineered bacteria to manufacture complex designer proteins by smuggling artificial amino acids into bacterial cells through a re-engineered nutrient transporter. The technique…
India is facing an acute shortage of Liquefied Petroleum Gas and Liquefied Natural Gas triggered directly by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, following the US-Israeli war on Iran that began on February 28, 2026, with the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Close to 90% of India’s LPG imports and 30% of…
On February 1, 2026, the Ministry of Finance issued an Explanatory Memorandum responding to the recommendations of the Sixteenth Finance Commission (FC16). On the surface, the Union government appeared cooperative: it accepted the States’ share in the divisible pool at 41%, accepted the horizontal devolution formula, the local body grants, and the disaster management corpus….
On March 11, 2026, the Lok Sabha took up a no-confidence motion moved by the Opposition against Speaker Om Birla, marking only the fourth such attempt in independent India’s parliamentary history. The motion was initiated by Congress MPs K. Suresh, Mohammad Jawed, and Mallu Ravi, with Deputy Leader Gaurav Gogoi leading the debate. Parliamentary Affairs…
The Musi River Rejuvenation Project in Hyderabad, Telangana, has re-entered public controversy following the issuance of three land acquisition notifications by the state government, triggering opposition from slum dwellers, civil society organisations, and even middle-class residents of gated communities whose properties fall within the acquisition zone for the proposed “Gandhi Sarovar” cultural precinct. The Telangana…
The Union government has sent informal feelers to Opposition leaders seeking their views on amending the Constitution (One Hundred and Sixth Amendment) Act, 2023 — commonly known as the Women’s Reservation Act or Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam — to advance its implementation timeline by decoupling it from the mandatory triggers of Census completion and delimitation….
Scientists have now identified, with molecular precision, why a small but significant proportion of recipients of adenoviral vector COVID-19 vaccines — specifically AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson — developed a rare but potentially fatal combination of blood clots and low platelet counts known as Vaccine-Induced Immune Thrombocytopenia and Thrombosis, or VITT. A study published in…