India Governance Pulse

India's NPR records usual residents in local areas but skips the UN's continuous updating for births, deaths, and migration.

• NRC connection: Local...

Keralites in the Gulf are chartering special flights to return home and vote, revealing strong diaspora engagement despite rules requiring physical...

Southern India's political voice feels more stifled today than during the independence era, as northern dominance in both Congress and BJP leadership...

• Congress frames 2.06 crore deletions as BJP-orchestrated vote theft to rig elections
• Rahul Gandhi cites voter count swings from 9.7 crore to 7.78...

The Supreme Court seeks the Centre’s view on totalisers, which aggregate EVM votes across booths to hide local patterns.

• Privacy angle: Totalisers...

A parliamentary committee recommended that the central government frame national policies for senior citizen care and extend AB-PMJAY to all children below five years.

Rahul Gandhi has labeled the Election Commission a "vote chori commission," claiming its sole aim is BJP victory through manipulated voter rolls.

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India's politics splits along a federalism axis — should Delhi or states hold the deciding vote on money, language, agencies and seats?

• Centre...

Leaders across India’s political spectrum — from Chandrababu Naidu and M.K. Stalin to Mohan Bhagwat — are urging higher birth rates, reflecting how...

BJP's nomination of eight Muslim candidates for Jaipur civic elections marks a notable departure from its zero-Muslim slate in the 2023 Assembly and...

• Economic clout: Southern states deliver ~30% of India's GDP via tech, manufacturing and human development gains that rival national engines.
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In his Independence Day address, PM Modi declared that armed Naxals have been eliminated but dimaagi Naxals—former policy advisers—remain a threat...

Modi's attendance alongside Xi and Putin at the SCO summit underscores India's strategic autonomy — using the platform for optics, interest protection, and hedging in a multipolar setting despite rivalries with China and Pakistan.

External Affairs Minister Jaishankar launched India's 2028-2029 UNSC campaign by stressing multilateralism, institutional reform, and representation...

New Legal Metrology rules establish Indian Standard Time as the mandatory reference for legal, administrative, commercial and official systems.

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• Income growth stalled: RBI surveys show net income sentiment plunging from 3.0 to 0.9 and spending sentiment from 78.4 to 74.5.
• MGNREGA collapse:...

BJP President Nitin Nabin hailed recent Assembly results as a "historic mandate" driven by Modi’s leadership, citing gains in Assam and Puducherry...

Protests, a mayoral denunciation, and calls for sanctions against Mohan Bhagwat expose mounting global scrutiny of the RSS and its Hindutva...

Rahul Gandhi's rising appeal is framed as a substantive ideological shift, not mere reaction to Modi-era politics. His consistent push for...

By limiting 'Vande Mataram' to its first two stanzas, Congress again surrendered nationalist ground to the BJP, turning a simple song into a proxy...