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Why in news? As part of prison reform, jails in Chhattisgarh began offering yoga and Sudarshan Kriya sessions to inmates. The programme aims to reduce...
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Why in news? As part of prison reform, jails in Chhattisgarh began offering yoga and Sudarshan Kriya sessions to inmates. The programme aims to reduce...
Why in news? News reports in September 2025 featured photographs of older Apatani women still bearing distinctive facial tattoos and wooden nose plugs...
Why in news? A controversy arose at the Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar when a carving resembling the State Emblem was deemed inappropriate. The incident...
Why in news? Since late August 2025 the CoWIN portal used for COVID‑19 vaccination certificates has been temporarily offline due to an upgrade. Mill...
Why in news? Recent discussions on constitutional reforms in both India and France prompted comparisons of how governments win or lose the support of ...
Why in news? The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs launched the Angikaar 2025 campaign as part of the second phase of the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yoj...
Why in news? Rajasthan introduced a law to regulate private coaching institutes after concerns about student suicides, exorbitant fees and the commerc...
Why in news? Every year India celebrates Teacher’s Day on 5 September, the birthday of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. In 2025, tributes highlighted h...
Why in news? The Ministry of Education released the India Rankings 2025 under the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). These rankings eval...
Why in news? The Ministry of Tribal Affairs requested the Census Commissioner to enumerate Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups separately in the for...
Why in news? The Government of India notified the Environment Audit Rules 2025, creating a new class of “environment auditors.” These independent ...
Why in news? The long‑standing debate over the constitutional limit on caste reservations came back into focus in early September 2025. Some state...
Why in news? India’s defence production sector received a boost in 2025 when export orders from the corporatised ordnance factories crossed ₹3,500...
Why in news? The Supreme Court has reopened a decade‑old debate about whether schools run by religious and linguistic minorities should be exempt fr...
Why in news? With the retirement of Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia in August 2025, India’s Supreme Court once again has only one woman on its 34‑member ...
Why in news? The Institute for Economics and Peace released the Global Peace Index (GPI) for 2025, ranking 163 countries on their level of peacefulnes...
Why in news? The Union government has issued new rules under the Immigration and Citizenship laws giving Foreigners Tribunals (FTs) powers equivalent ...
Why in news? India’s health‑care policy has pivoted towards publicly funded insurance schemes such as Ayushman Bharat–Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya ...
Why in news? Recent scams in public works and procurement have renewed public debate on corruption in India. With Transparency International’s Corru...
Why in news? The Ministry of Education released the Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) report for 2024–25. The report p...