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Every morning, before the sun rises, the outpatient queue outside a government hospital in any major Indian city has already wrapped around the block. Inside, a single doctor may see well over a hundred patients before lunch. India does have medical facilities thousands of them. The trouble isn’t their absence. It’s that 1.4 billion people […]
The long pending controversy regarding delimitation of parliamentary constituencies came to the fore again in 2026, when the government presented a bill that suggested increasing the number of parliamentary seats, delimitation of constituencies, and reservation of seats for women. Though the bills failed, the question of delimitation along with its consequences remained a matter of […]
The Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu has once again raised a 20-year-old demand for the Centre to designate Tamil as the principal language of the Madras High Court. The resolution has been moved by Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay and unanimously passed on Thursday. According to Vijay, rapid advancements in translation technology, particularly AI-powered ones, […]
A 16-year-old girl from Uttar Pradesh was raped by two men on a bus. The girl was allegedly raped while travelling on a private sleeper bus from Greater Noida to Delhi; the driver and conductor have since been named as accused, and she was reportedly abandoned near Kashmere Gate. Delhi government direct all the bus […]
A portion of the Ganga Expressway in Unnao collapsed owing to incessant rains, raising questions regarding the quality of construction of the expressway project that serves as the pride of Uttar Pradesh. According to official sources, a portion of the entry ramp near Dahi Chowki collapsed due to the continuous rain. This entry ramp connects […]
