SC questions EC on voter roll deletions, citizenship

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Election Commission (EC) whether an Electoral Registration Officer (ERO)'s decision to strike a person off the electoral rolls after an "inquisitorial" enquiry into his citizenship under the special intensive revision (SIR) exercise could be referred to by the Centre to commence an investigation into the individual's right to remain in India or be deported.

SC differs on sanction to try public servants

The Supreme Court on Tuesday delivered a split verdict on the legality of a provision in an anti-corruption law which mandates prior sanction before prosecuting public servants.

Justice B.V. Nagarathna concluded that Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, was plainly unconstitutional, while Justice K.V. Viswanathan, the puisne judge on the Division Bench, said that sanction must be decided by an independent authority such as the Lokpal or the Lok Ayukta.

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Amid tensions on several other foreign policy fronts, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was the first of several high-level visitors to Delhi to strengthen India-Europe ties.

With trade passing $50 billion in 2024-25, Germany remains India's largest trading partner in Europe. While the talks are understood to have been substantive, the outcomes were in essence a series of "Joint Declarations of Interest (JDI)" and MoUs.

India must focus on Al and its environmental impact

According to an OECD working paper, “Measuring the Environmental Impacts of Artificial Intelligence Compute and Applications", the development of AI algorithms comes with certain environmental costs such as an increased carbon footprint which exacerbates climate change-related challenges.

The importance of blue

Gandhi's first experiment with satyagraha, or civil disobedience, in India was in Champaran, Bihar, in 1917. Champaran was full of indigo plantations. The tenants of the plantation were bound by law to plant indigo on a portion of their land. 'This system was known as the tinkathia system, as three kathas out of twenty kathas (which make one acre) had to be planted with Indigo.

Is the government seeking phones' source code?

Source code is the core repository of software programmes and their associated digital assets that drives a digital system.

It is highly unusual for source code of any kind of system to be disclosed outside a company, except perhaps in sensitive fields like defence, and that too in specific countries.

Are India's small towns being increasingly urbanised?

India's flagship urban missions remain deeply metro-centric. AMRUT, even in its expanded version, effectively excludes most small towns from meaningful infrastructure investment.

Small towns must be acknowledged as the primary frontier of India's urban future.

Festschrift for Mahasweta Devi: three books by marginalised voices

Mahasweta Devi always looked out for the poorest of the poor. The writer and activist, who would have turned 100 on January 14, 2026, spent her life seeking a life of equality and justice for the dispossessed, particularly Adivasis, and the impoverished people of urban and rural India.

In 1997, when Mahasweta Devi was honoured with the Ramon Magsaysay Award, she said: "My India still lives behind a curtain of darkness. A curtain that separates mainstream society from the poor and the deprived."

Kuki-Zo groups agree to join Manipur govt. with conditions

Kuki-Zo tribal groups said on Tuesday that they had resolved to join the popular government in Manipur, provided the Union and the State governments give a written commitment to support the negotiated political settlement for a Union Territory with legis-lature under the Constitution.

Trump's latest 25% tariff warning brings India-Iran ties under renewed strain

India's ties with Iran have come under renewed pressure after U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that "any country" having trade ties with Tehran would face a 25% tariff if it sought to do business with the U.S.

Inter-departmental panel formed to combat 'digital arrests': govt. to SC

The Union government has swung into action to combat digital arrests, which has deprived citizens, mostly elderly and the vulnerable, of thousands of crores of hard-earned money, by forming an interdepartmental committee chaired by its Special Secretary (Internal Security) Ministry of Home Affairs.

Trump's latest tariff threat on Iran to have little impact on India

India's overall trade scenario is not likely to face much of an impact if it were to stop trading with Iran in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's new threat of a 25% tariff on any country doing business with Iran, official data showed.

However, it could temporarily impact some sectors such as rice, tea, fresh fruits, and essential oils, as per the data.

PFRDA sets up expert panel on assured NPS payouts

In a bid to explore methods to avert market risks and provide steady income, the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) said it constituted an expert committee to develop a framework for assured payouts under the National Pension Scheme (NPS).

Human + AI will define the future of work by 2027: study

Human + AI will define the future of work and nearly all HR leaders (97%) anticipate that by 2027, the nature of work will be shaped by humans working alongside AI rather than engaging with it only intermittently, showed a Nasscom-Indeed study. 

As per the study, this trend signalled a shift from Al being a supplementary tool to becoming an integral part of everyday roles, workflows and decisionmaking processes.