The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal has emerged as one of the most contentious electoral law and governance debates in recent times. The Supreme Court of India, led by Chief Justice Surya Kant, has taken an extraordinary step of deploying judicial officers from neighbouring states of Odisha and Jharkhand to…
The deaths of three adolescent girls in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, earlier in February 2026 have forced a reckoning with what mental health professionals are increasingly calling India’s most neglected public health emergency: the crisis of child and adolescent mental health. The intense media attention following the Ghaziabad tragedy reflects not isolated grief but a collective…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s announcement of a visit to India on February 27, 2026, with meetings scheduled in Mumbai and Delhi, represents one of the most significant diplomatic developments in the India-Canada bilateral relationship in several years. The visit, part of a three-nation Indo-Pacific tour covering India, Australia, and Japan, comes after an extended…
The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has emerged as one of the most contested governance developments in India in early 2026. The process, initiated by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in Bihar and West Bengal ahead of upcoming state assembly elections, has generated significant controversy over alleged irregularities in voter deletions, claims…
At the India Energy Week held in January 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi outlined India’s ambition to become not merely energy-secure but energy-independent, identifying clean energy investment opportunities worth $500 billion. Within this vast landscape of India’s energy transition, a relatively less-publicised but extraordinarily significant development has been quietly unfolding: India’s green ammonia auction conducted…
On February 23, 2026, the Allahabad High Court delivered a significant ruling granting police protection to twelve interfaith live-in couples and directed that private respondents and state authorities refrain from interfering with their lives, liberty, and privacy. The ruling arose from a batch of twelve writ petitions, comprising seven cases where Muslim women were living…
The Union Home Ministry on February 23, 2026, released India’s first-ever comprehensive anti-terrorism policy titled PRAHAAR — the National Counter Terrorism Policy and Strategy. This landmark development marks a decisive institutional shift in how India conceptualises, coordinates, and responds to the multifaceted terror threats it faces domestically and from across its borders. The policy, which…
On January 12, 2026, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) took a decision that has sent reverberations through the global nuclear safety community: it formally eliminated the ALARA (As Low as Reasonably Achievable) principle from its directives and regulations. This decision, made in the context of President Donald Trump’s executive orders aimed at accelerating…
In a world where strategic competition is increasingly fought over semiconductors, artificial intelligence infrastructure, critical minerals, and data, India has made a decisive move by joining the Pax Silica alliance — a US-led coalition focused on building trusted, democratic infrastructure for AI and critical technologies. The decision, which has been likened by analysts to India’s…
By early 2026, India has quietly engineered one of the most consequential structural transformations in its economic history. What were once dismissively called “captive centres” — offshore extensions of multinational corporations’ back-office functions — have evolved into Global Capability Centres (GCCs) that define the technological and strategic future of some of the world’s largest companies….