The arrest of six Ukrainian nationals and a US citizen by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for allegedly crossing illegally into Myanmar via Mizoram to train ethnic armed organisations in weapons handling and drone warfare has brought India’s porous border with Myanmar into sharp national security focus. Compounding the significance of this case is data…
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,…