March 2026

The Supreme Court of India’s landmark directive in the case of Rachana Gangu, instructing the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to design a no-fault compensation scheme for serious Adverse Events Following Immunisation (AEFI) arising from India’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign, represents a paradigm shift in how the Indian state conceptualises its obligations toward citizens in…

The editorial pages of The Hindu, dated March 14, 2026, carry a detailed analysis of the visit of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to India from February 27 to March 2, 2026 — a visit widely described as a “remarkable turnaround” in bilateral relations after the severe diplomatic rupture under Justin Trudeau, which was precipitated…

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while replying to the debate on the Second Supplementary Demand for Grants in the Lok Sabha on March 14, 2026, announced that the Centre has allocated Rs. 57,381 crore for a newly proposed Economic Stabilisation Fund (ESF). The Lok Sabha simultaneously cleared additional net cash expenditure of approximately Rs. 2.01 lakh…

On March 14, 2026, 193 Members of Parliament belonging to the INDIA bloc formally submitted a notice in both Houses of Parliament seeking the removal of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar. This marks a historic first — no such notice has been formally submitted in Parliament before against a sitting CEC. The 10-page document…

On March 11, 2026, Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi addressed officers at the College of Defence Management (CDM) in Secunderabad and articulated what may prove to be a watershed statement in Indian military doctrine. Drawing explicitly from the lessons of Operation Sindoor, General Dwivedi declared that the Indian Army must shift from a…

The ongoing military conflict between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other, which began on February 28, 2026, has triggered a cascading energy crisis in India with remarkable speed. Iran’s military closure of the Strait of Hormuz — through which approximately 85 percent of India’s LPG imports are routed…

NASA’s Inspector General released a report on March 11, 2026, warning that SpaceX’s Starship rocket has accumulated at least two years of development delays since NASA selected it as the primary astronaut lander for the Artemis programme in 2021. The Inspector General’s findings are significant because they directly threaten NASA’s target of landing astronauts on…

Nepal held its general elections on March 5, 2026, producing a result that has astonished observers across South Asia. The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), a relatively young political formation, swept the elections with a historic mandate, winning 125 of 165 seats under the first past the post system. Traditional parties including the Nepali Congress, the…

The National Statistical Office (NSO) of India released a revised National Accounts Statistics (NAS) series with 2022–23 as the new base year, replacing the previous 2011–12 base year series. This revision comes after an unusually long gap of eleven years and has been eagerly anticipated given the intense controversy that surrounded the previous base year…

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…