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Each topic is a living timeline: what happened, when, who says what, and the sources behind every line.
Ladakh statehood and safeguards talks
Ladakh's Leh and Kargil groups and the Home Ministry are negotiating an elected body and constitutional protections for the Union Territory.
6 updates · latest 16 Oct
CJP protests
The Cockroach Janta Party's street campaign for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation, and how police and courts responded.
8 updates · latest 16 Oct
CMRL-Exalogic case
A corruption and money-laundering probe into payments by a Kerala mining firm to a company run by Pinarayi Vijayan's daughter.
6 updates · latest 16 Oct
Delimitation and the women's quota
The Centre wants a bigger Lok Sabha and the women's quota before 2029; southern states fear losing their share of seats.
7 updates · latest 16 Oct
India-China relations
Border talks, Xi Jinping's first India visit in seven years, rows over map names and visas, and a record trade gap shape the India-China thaw.
6 updates · latest 16 Oct
India-US relations
New US visa rules, a sanctions law on Russian oil buyers, a pending trade deal and a Rubio visit that skips Delhi test India-US ties.
7 updates · latest 16 Oct
India-US trade deal and tariffs
Talks on a first India-US trade deal, the extra 10% US duty on Indian goods, and a US law that threatened 100% tariffs over Russian oil.
7 updates · latest 16 Oct
Manipur Kuki-Naga violence
Ambushes, arson and blockades between Kuki-Zo and Naga communities in Manipur's hill districts since February 2026.
7 updates · latest 15 Oct
Rising prices and the RBI rate hike
Food and fuel costs pushed retail inflation to 5.54% in September, and the RBI raised interest rates for the first time since 2023, while growth stayed strong.
7 updates · latest 15 Oct
SIR voter-roll revision
The Election Commission's nationwide Special Intensive Revision of voter lists: its deletions, additions and the legal fight over how it was run.
6 updates · latest 15 Oct
Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz
Renewed US-Iran fighting, attacks on ships crewed by Indians and a near-closed Strait of Hormuz hit India's seafarers and oil bill.
7 updates · latest 15 Oct
Journalists, police cases and the courts
Arrests, FIRs and defamation cases against reporters, and how judges are drawing the line on press freedom.
6 updates · latest 15 Oct
UPI merchant fee row
A planned 0.4% fee that shops would pay on UPI payments above ₹2,000 has split the government, the opposition and traders, and is on hold until after Diwali.
6 updates · latest 13 Oct
Caste census: how to count caste
Census 2027 will count every caste for the first time since 1931, but parties disagree on whether an open answer box can produce usable numbers.
6 updates · latest 12 Oct
Hindi and the three-language formula
The Centre's push for a third language in schools faces resistance from Tamil Nadu, and parents have challenged CBSE's rules in the Supreme Court.
6 updates · latest 11 Oct
Uniform Civil Code, state by state
BJP-ruled states are passing common family-law codes; Muslim bodies, opposition parties and some BJP allies object to the content or the process.
6 updates · latest 1 Oct