On April 20, 2026, the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court delivered an important ruling reaffirming that the Forest Rights Act (FRA), 2006 — as a later and more specific law — overrides all earlier court orders and statutory provisions inconsistent with it. The ruling came in the context of a District Level Committee…
A constitutional and legal controversy has arisen following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s April 18, 2026 national broadcast on Doordarshan, Sansad TV, and All India Radio, in which he named four Opposition parties and urged women voters in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal to punish them at the polls for defeating the 131st Constitution Amendment Bill…
New satellite imagery released by NASA in May 2026, derived from the joint NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite, has revealed that Mexico City is sinking at a rate of nearly 25 centimeters per year — making it one of the fastest subsiding urban areas in the world. In some localities, the subsidence reaches 2…
On May 4, 2026, the United States military commenced “Project Freedom,” a unilateral operation to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping after Iran had effectively closed the critical waterway in the context of the ongoing West Asia conflict. The operation involved US military helicopters sinking six Iranian small boats, American-flagged merchant ships transiting…
India’s healthcare sector is confronting a deepening medical inflation crisis that threatens to push millions of households into catastrophic expenditure and debt. Reports in May 2026 highlight that while the government’s Economic Survey for 2025-26 reported health inflation slowing to 3 percent, private industry surveys such as Aon’s Global Medical Trends Rate 2026 place actual…
On May 4, 2026, the Supreme Court of India delivered a significant ruling by expanding the definition of “acid attack victims” under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, to include individuals who were forcibly made to ingest acid — a category previously excluded from the statute’s protective ambit. The Bench of Chief Justice…