Governance And Policy

The new Amendment turns states’ plenary taxing powers over minerals into a licence granted at the Centre’s discretion, setting up a serious constitutional challenge and dealing a fresh blow to fiscal federalism.

Does India’s heat relief promise truly reach its informal workers? A ground-level and RTI audit reveals that Delhi’s ‘cooling centres’ are far removed from actual considerations of informal, domestic and gig workers who cannot stop toiling in the capital’s killer heat.

By refusing to make a statement on police brutality against student protestors, the Home Minister is evading the doctrine of ministerial accountability enshrined in Articles 75(3) and 77(3) of the Constitution – undermining Ambedkar’s vision of legislative supremacy.

Does India’s heat relief promise truly reach its informal workers? An RTI and field-based study by a collaboration between economists, lawyers and journalists inquires into the many gaps between plan and action in the national capital’s latest heat action strategy.

India’s Green Credit Programme dresses up land dispossession as ecological restoration while reducing forest-dwelling communities to ‘encumbrances’ as corporates cash in on tradable green credits.

As Parliament passes a contentious bill adding ‘Vande Mataram’ to the National Honour Act, Tagore’s justification to drop the last four stanzas of the poem for their exclusionary flavour, Gandhi’s resistance to the poem’s imposition, and the Constituent Assembly’s own record are worth revisiting.

The proposals on seat expansion, women’s reservation, and delimitation seek to reconfigure the architecture of India’s political system in ways that could make the BJP’s electoral dominance easier to sustain. It could fundamentally rebalance political power across regions, social groups, and genders, reshaping who is represented, from where, and in what proportions.

Fifty signatories, including activists, lawyers and researchers, have urged the ECI to fix the Special Intensive Revision’s patriarchal documentation norms, warning that women, transgender persons and minority communities are being disproportionately struck off electoral rolls.