Nearly two decades after Parliament passed India’s only Law specifically for older people, the bill’s fundamental flaws continue to lie unresolved as the judiciary strains the existing legislation to bridge them – a new bill to correct these issues has been pending in Parliament since 2019. India’s population of individuals aged 60 and above was…
By early August 2026, roughly 481 villages across Assam had gone completely underwater. 90 relief camps were sheltering close to 30,000 people. Another 94 distribution centres supplied essentials to those who had not been evacuated. This is not Assam’s first devastating flood season. Unless something structural changes, it will not be its last. The death…
40,794 crore rupees. According to Bharat CSR Performance Report 2026, the expenditures of corporate India jumped 17% over the previous year, on social responsibility in FY 2024-25. This has pushes India’s cumulative CSR investment past ₹2.61 lakh crore since the mandate began. This feels like a triumph of policy on paper. However, peeling the back…
In March 1969, huge pavilions were being constructed at Gandhi Darshan, for an exhibition honouring Gandhi’s birth centenary. A young member of the Centenary Planning Committee, Meera Mahadevan, noted the plight of children at the site. Infants lay in the flying dust, toddlers wandered around cement mixers and sledgehammers, older children helped their parents fetch…
NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hoist the national flag at the Red Fort on August 15 to mark India’s 80th Independence Day, with most of the roughly 5,000 special invitees drawn from beneficiaries of central government welfare schemes rather than the political or diplomatic circuit typically associated with VIP guest lists, according…
A Meerut resident, Ankur Singh, received a WhatsApp message in September 2025 stating that the regional transport office had imposed a penalty on his vehicle. He hit the link. In a few hours, Rs 15.50 lakh- all his lifetime savings- was gone from his HDFC bank account. Singh is one of the victims in a…
Somewhere in India this week, a student is staring at a phone screen, waiting for a result to load. For most, it will just be a number, a pass, a rank, a disappointment shaken off by dinner. But for some, it will feel like the only thing standing between them and a future worth living…
On August 10, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan stood at ICAR-IARI, Pusa, and released ₹21.35 crore to more than 6,000 agricultural students in a single sweep. The money moved through the National Scholarship Portal’s Direct Benefit Transfer mechanism, and students under various ICAR scholarship and fellowship schemes are now to receive their monthly installments,…
India’s digital transformation has expanded access to UPI, Aadhaar, DigiLocker and online welfare services, but millions remain excluded. Rural location, gender, caste, income and biometric authentication failures continue to shape who can truly benefit from Digital India.
New Delhi, 6 August 2026 – To tap the vast potential in converting livestock waste into fuel, the Union Cabinet approved GOBARdhan – India’s National Circular Bioenergy Scheme. The scheme expect an outlay of Rs. 23,731 crores during 2026-27 to 2035-36 to transform cattle dung, crop waste, press mud, and municipal solid waste to Compressed…
