On March 11, 2026, the Supreme Court of India delivered a landmark judgment clarifying how the “creamy layer” exclusion from OBC (Other Backward Classes) reservations must be applied to children of parents employed in Central or State Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) where the equivalence of those posts with government service posts has not yet been…
As the kharif agricultural season approaches (beginning by end of March 2026), the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Fertilizers, headed by Trinamool Congress MP Azad Kirti Jha, has tabled a report in Parliament warning of an acute shortage of essential fertilizers. The committee’s findings are particularly alarming because they coincide with the severe disruption of international…
On March 13, 2026, the last functioning atomic clock aboard the IRNSS-1F satellite — a component of India’s Indigenous Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), commercially known as NavIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation) — stopped functioning. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) confirmed the failure in a statement on March 14, noting that the satellite had…
On March 14–15, 2026, U.S. forces “obliterated” military targets on Iran’s Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, the single most critical node in Iran’s oil export infrastructure, handling between 1.3 and 1.6 million barrels of crude per day — up to 90% of Iran’s total crude exports. President Donald Trump, in a social media post,…
The ongoing military conflict in West Asia — specifically the United States-Israel bombing campaign against Iran that began on February 28, 2026, and Iran’s retaliatory closure of the Strait of Hormuz — has created an acute energy crisis in India of a scale not seen since the oil shocks of the 1970s. India imports approximately…
On March 15, 2026, Ladakhi climate activist Sonam Wangchuk was released from Jodhpur Central Jail after 170 days of detention under the National Security Act (NSA), 1980. The Union Home Ministry invoked Section 14 of the NSA to revoke the Leh District Magistrate’s detention order with “immediate effect,” stating that Mr. Wangchuk had “already undergone…