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Holding power to its own promises.
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Reporters Without Borders ranks India 157th of 180 in 2026, down from 151st. A free press is how citizens find out what governments would rather hide.
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act amended the RTI Act — removing the public-interest test that let citizens access officials’ records.
Fraudsters posing as police "arrest" victims over video call and drain their savings. The losses are staggering — but a public-awareness push actually worked.
India ordered 84 internet shutdowns in 2024 — the most of any democracy, second only to military-run Myanmar.
The Enforcement Directorate files money-laundering cases that dominate headlines — but secures convictions in under 5% of them, and 95% of politicians it probes are from the opposition.
Ethnic violence that began in May 2023 left hundreds dead and tens of thousands in relief camps. A look at the human toll and the road back.
The V-Dem Institute has classified India as an "electoral autocracy" since 2017. The government rejects the label — so it’s worth understanding what the data actually measures.
After a four-decade demand, the government agreed in 2025 to enumerate caste in the next census — the first such count since 1931.
The three farm laws were repealed in 2021. The central promise that followed — a committee on MSP — has yet to deliver, and farmers are back at Delhi’s borders.
The government’s own crime bureau recorded 4.45 lakh crimes against women in 2022 — about 51 every hour, and rising.
A five-judge bench struck down the electoral bond scheme as unconstitutional, and ordered the donor data published. Here’s the plain-English version.
A 2022 overhaul made most new soldiers four-year contract recruits. It sparked nationwide protests and a debate that hasn’t settled.
In April 2024 the Supreme Court rejected demands for 100% VVPAT counting — and explained why. Here’s the verified version, minus the WhatsApp panic.
In August 2024 the government advertised 45 senior bureaucratic posts via lateral entry — then withdrew the ad within days amid a reservation row.
India’s deadliest rail disaster in decades was traced to a signalling error — months after an official had warned of exactly that risk.