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- Topic · maintained 2026-07-05 · updated 2026-07-17
The Special Intensive Revision of India's electoral rolls
The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is a house-to-house re-enumeration of India's electoral rolls that the Election Commission began in Bihar in 2025 and has now taken nationwide across three phases.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-17
Tamil Nadu after 2026: a new party in power, Dravidian continuity, and the Union fault lines
For the first time in fifty-nine years the Government of Tamil Nadu is not led by the DMK or the AIADMK.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-17
West Bengal after the 2026 verdict: the revised rolls and the Centre–state seam
92% of the vote in the April 2026 election, and the All India Trinamool Congress fell to 80.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-06
India's civil-aviation boom: UDAN regional connectivity and airport privatisation
India has become the world's third-largest domestic aviation market, and the Ministry of Civil Aviation is running that growth on two tracks: the UDAN regional-connectivity scheme, which subsidises flights to smaller towns, and the privatisation of Airports Authority of India airports under long private concessions.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-06
India's permanent civil service: the IAS/IPS, lateral entry, and administrative reform
India runs on a career bureaucracy topped by the All India Services — the IAS, IPS and Indian Forest Service — created under Article 312 of the Constitution and recruited through the UPSC's Civil Services Examination, one of the world's most selective contests.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-06
India's climate commitments: the net-zero-2070 target and the coal question
India's climate policy runs on two tracks that pull against each other.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-06
Coast Guard expansion: the FY2025-26 budget, the 2030 fleet target, and the permanent-commission case
7 crore, with the Capital head raised roughly 43% to Rs 5,000 crore to fund helicopters, Dornier aircraft, fast patrol vessels and training ships.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-06
India's cooperative-sector drive under the Ministry of Cooperation
4 lakh cooperatives and nearly 30 crore members as an engine of rural growth.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-06
India's corporate governance and insolvency: the Companies Act and the IBC
India's corporate-governance and insolvency regime rests on two pillars the Ministry of Corporate Affairs administers: the Companies Act, 2013, which governs how companies are incorporated, run and audited, and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, which governs how they are rescued or wound up.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-06
India's defence R&D: DRDO's missile and indigenous-systems programmes
India's military research is run largely through the Defence Research and Development Organisation, whose job is to make the armed forces self-reliant in weapons.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-06
India's culture and heritage policy: monuments, repatriation of antiquities, and soft power
49 crore. The ASI maintains 3,685 centrally protected monuments and sites, and India's World Heritage portfolio reached 44 inscriptions in July 2025 with the Maratha Military Landscapes.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-06
India's critical-minerals strategy: the National Critical Mineral Mission, mining reform and coal
India's critical-minerals strategy is built on a 2023 law that opened lithium, rare earths and 22 other strategic minerals to central auction, and a 2025 National Critical Mineral Mission with a ₹34,300 crore, seven-year outlay run by the Ministry of Mines.