# Hijab ban The Karnataka government on Tuesday argued that its February 5 order asking educational institutions to enforce prescribed uniforms was secular as it banned all additional religious clothings by students irrespective of their religious affiliation, be it hijab or saffron shawl. The state has statutory powers to ask the Schools to enforce the […]

# Health spending How well states do on health indices does not seem to be directly corelated to how much they spend per capita on healthcare. For instance, J&k had indicators nearly as good as those of Kerala, Himachal Or Maharashtra with less than half the spending and Tamil Nadu too achieved similar outcomes with […]

# Crude oil India is estimated to have gained ₹35000 crore by importing Russian crude oil at discounts as well as levying windfall tax on domestic crude in the wake of a surge in prices since the Ukraine conflict began in February. India went on bargain hunting for Russian crude as the conflict prompted Moscow’s […]

# Cheetahs Seven decades after the cheetah was declared extinct in India, its cousins from Africa have been brought to India in an ambitious but tricky project to restore the lost spots of glory in the country’s conservation history. PM Modi released eight cheetahs into a special enclosure. The release of the spotted cats was […]

# SCO summit PM Modi urged Putin to take the initiative in addressing some of the biggest problems the developing countries have been facing in the form of food, fuel and fertilizer scarcity. Putin, who spoke before Modi, acknowledged India’s position on Ukraine and said Russia will do its best to stop the conflict as […]

# SCO summit PM Narendra Modi arrived in Samarkand late Thursday evening for the SCO summit. Modi’s late arrival allowed him to skip a welcome dinner hosted by Uzbekistan president Shavkat Mirziyoyev where he would have been joined by among others the PM of Pakistan Shehbaj Sharif. PM Modi will have bilateral meetings with Russian […]

# Taliban A group of Afghan Sikhs who were to leave for India on September 11 were stopped from taking the Guru granth Sahib along with them. The Taliban said religious scriptures are “heritage of Afghanistan” and hence cannot be taken out of the country. Afghan sikhs started fleeing their home country in the 1990s […]

# Vedanta – Foxconn Mining conglomerate Vedanta and Taiwanese electronics manufacturing giant foxconn will make one of the largest ever investments of ₹ 1.54 lakh crore in setting up India’s first semiconductor plant in Gujarat. The 60:40 joint venture of Vedanta-foxconn will set up semi conductor fab unit, a display fab unit and a semiconductor […]

# Srilanka India called Srilanka out at United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday for lack of “measurable progress” On the latter’s commitments for a political solution to the ethnic tamil minority issue through “full implementation of the 13th amendment of the Constitution”. This rare public disapproval of Srilanka’s action or inaction as the case […]

# Supreme Court The Supreme Court is experiencing an unusually heavy workload of PILs since Justice UU Lalit took over as the 49th CJI. He has pulled out PILs gathering dust from dingy storerooms of the registry to list them along with freshly filed PILs. O On Monday, as many as 228 PILs are listed […]