Birth certificate before hospital discharge
India is moving toward a “one-step, one-document” birth-registration regime: hospitals (public + private) must now e-file the child’s details before the mother is discharged, triggering a digital birth-certificate that becomes […]
Indian astronaut on the ISS / Gaganyaan progress
Historic ISS visit (June 2025) Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla became the first Indian citizen to reach the International Space Station, flying as pilot on Axiom Space’s Ax-4 mission aboard a […]
₹20,787-crore Shaktipeeth Expressway and farmer resistance — land acquisition, faith tourism, federal finances
The proposed ₹20,787-crore, 802 km Nagpur–Goa “Shaktipeeth Expressway” aims to stitch together twelve districts and a string of famous goddess temples (Shakti peeths) in Maharashtra, shrinking the road trip from […]
Uttarakhand HC stays panchayat polls over rotation of reservations.
The Uttarakhand High Court’s 24 June 2025 order froze the forthcoming panchayat elections because the State tried to reset the statutory “rotation” of reserved seats midway—a move the Bench said […]
Assam Sixth-Schedule land row over Adani thermal-power project
A proposed Adani coal-based power plant in Assam’s Sixth-Schedule Kokrajhar district has triggered protests because land was transferred without following the special constitutional, tribal-rights and environmental procedures that apply in […]
ASI conclave on deciphering the Indus script – interdisciplinary research & soft-power diplomacy.
India’s Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is convening a three-day global brainstorming session this August to pool archaeologists, computer-scientists, linguists and even AI start-ups around one long-standing puzzle: the undeciphered […]
