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The Supreme Court of India has banned a Class 8 Social Science textbook published by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). The Court acted because the book contained references to 'corruption...
**Overview** On March 2, 2026, President Droupadi Murmu officially launched four transformative women-centric welfare schemes of the Delhi Government during the 'Sashakt Nari, Samriddh Delhi' (Empowered Woman, Prosperous...
**Overview** On March 1, 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the 350th Shaheedi Samagam (Martyrdom Year) of the ninth Sikh Guru, Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji, in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra. He honored the Guru as 'Hin...
By the first operational quarter of 2026, the Tamil Nadu government officially achieved highly significant construction and completion milestones under the remarkably ambitious Professor Anbazhagan School Development Sch...
A total of 64 Parliamentary Friendship Groups have been set up in the 18th Lok Sabha to deepen ties with other countries. Three-term MP Shrikant Eknath Shinde became the youngest MP nominated to head a group, the India-I...
Saundala village in Maharashtra passed a Gram Sabha resolution on 5 February 2026 declaring itself caste-free. Adopting the motto 'Aamchi jaat... manav' (My caste is humanity), the village guarantees equal access for all...
The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) released the Asia and the Pacific SDG Progress Report 2026. It projects that the region will miss 103 of 117 measurable SDG targets by 2030, with jus...
The Maharashtra government under Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis withdrew the 5% quota for socially and educationally backward Muslims. It was introduced through an ordinance in July 2014 by the Congress-NCP government...
Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh both became States on 20 February 1987. Mizoram, a Union Territory from 1972, gained statehood through the 53rd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1986, after the Mizoram Accord between the Centr...
Throughout the early months of 2026, the Tamil Nadu School Education Department's highly dedicated, specialized reading initiative, widely known as 'Vasippu Iyakkam' (The Reading Movement), recorded truly phenomenal, unp...
Denotified, nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes (DNTs) are demanding a separate column in the caste enumeration planned for February 2027, the first since 1931, and constitutional recognition in a Schedule like SCs, STs and...
The Union Government published the first national dataset on waste-pickers under the NAMASTE (National Action for Mechanised Sanitation Ecosystem) scheme. Urban Local Bodies in 35 States and Union Territories have profil...
