Officials interact with a family during the social and educational survey (caste survey) in Hubballi, Karnataka on September 23, 2025. The Kodava community appears to be in a dilemma over how to record their identity in the ongoing Social and Educational Survey being conducted by the government of Karnataka. At the heart of the debate … Read more
Referring to Section 23(4), Justice Bagchi asked whether Aadhaar was not part of the statute which governed the ECI with regard to the right to vote and inclusion in electoral rolls. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The Supreme Court on Monday (September 15, 2025) said Aadhaar was part of the right to vote statute, and … Read more
Students paint posters urging voters to vote for the Lok Sabha election 2024. File picture used for representation. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The State of Bombay was bifurcated in 1960 into the Marathi-speaking Maharashtra and the Gujarati-speaking Gujarat. Balasaheb Thackeray’s satirical cartoons on anti-migrant sentiments gained steam with the local population which led to … Read more
BJP workers during celebrations after the party’s victory in elections to the Legislative Assemblies of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan. | Photo Credit: PTI One of the ways Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel sought to counter the BJP was by trying to forge a distinct ‘Chhattisgarhi identity’ among voters in the State. The State government crafted a range … Read more
The Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal on Wednesday said it cannot direct for reservation for transgenders in public employment and education but said the government ought to take more steps towards the community’s inclusion in mainstream society. The tribunal passed its order on the applications filed by three transgenders — two of them had applied for the … Read more
Kaushik Ghantasala in ‘How is that for a Monday?’, produced and directed by Sripal Sama. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement In a tech firm in Orange County, USA, a 20-something H-1B visa-holding immigrant, Shyam Kumar (Kaushik Ghantasala) walks in with an air of pride and tells his boss that he has fixed issues related to … Read more
Construction work underway on the first floor of the Ram Janmabhoomi temple, in Ayodhya. | Photo Credit: ANI Amid the construction of the Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya, likely to be completed by January 2024, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Uttar Pradesh Government is taking various other initiatives to establish the identity of Ram in … Read more
Image for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The Union Government is likely to begin registering students for creating an Aadhaar-linked unique identity system from the month of August. In March, the National Educational Technology Forum (NETF) came out with a public document elaborating the need for an Education Ecosystem Registry (EER), which … Read more
by Siddharth Gandhi Traditional data management methods in healthcare have left people’s sensitive information spread among many providers over their lifetime. This makes it nearly impossible for individuals to access their records and make informed decisions about their care. However, the future of healthcare is moving towards a model where people can create and control … Read more
The Bru tribespeople wait at the polling booth to cast their vote for the Tripura Assembly election | Photo Credit: ANI A large majority of voters in Tripura were eagerly waiting for the election results to see which party will form the government. However, the concern for the people belonging to the Bru tribal community … Read more