A year after four protesters were shot dead in Leh, the Centre has yet to share a draft of its offer, and Ladakh’s leaders say distrust is growing.

Census 2027 will include caste enumeration, but by adopting an open-ended structure that may replicate the shortcomings of the doomed 2011 Socio-Economic Caste Census, the exercise may once again produce data that are unusable.

With BJP-ruled States enacting uniform civil codes, it is time to assess them as laboratories of legislative experimentation and ask whether they advance gender equality and protect individual autonomy in marriage and property rights.

CBT can reduce risks associated with printing and logistics, but it introduces new vulnerabilities like hacking. With the NTA’s institutional weaknesses and NEET-UG’s scale, a shift to CBT may compromise fairness without guaranteeing better security.

Vedanta’s push for bauxite mining in Odisha’s Niyamgiri Hill appears to be gathering momentum, with the State government’s backing. But claims that local communities have approved the project appear dubious at best.