Applications for the LAMP Fellowship 2026-27 are open now. Apply here

Follow the Latest Under

Schedule Of Committee Meetings
Interaction with Shri Sanjeev Sanyal, Member of Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) and Chancellor, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune; Smt. Gita Gopinath, First Deputy Managing Director of the International Mon...
To hear views of the State Governments of Assam and Tamil Nadu ...
Evidence of the representatives of the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying (Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying), Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (Departm...
(i) Consideration and Adoption of the draft report on the subject “Review of Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) with special emphasis on Urban Drinking Water”. (ii) Briefing by the Ministry of Housing and Ur...
Announcements
Comments invited on
Mr. Vaghul, our first Chairperson, passed away on Saturday.  I write this note to express my deep gratitude to him, and to celebrate his life.  And what a life he lived! Mr. Vaghul and I at his residence       ...
Tanvi Vipra - May 10, 2024
Last week, the Power Finance Corporation reported that state-owned power distribution companies across the country made financial losses amounting to Rs 68,832 crore in 2022-23.  This is four times higher than the losses witnessed in 2021-22, and roughly equivalent to the annual budget of a sta...
Niranjana Menon - August 8, 2023
Discussion on the first no-confidence motion of the 17th Lok Sabha began today.  No-confidence motions and confidence motions are trust votes, used to test or demonstrate the support of Lok Sabha for the government in power.  Article 75(3) of the Constitution states that the government is ...
In the last few years, several states have enacted laws to curb cheating in examinations, especially those for recruitment in public service commissions.   According to news reports, incidents of cheating and paper leaks have occurred on several occasions in Uttarakhand, including during t...
Tanvi Vipra - Dec 6, 2022
The Uttarakhand Assembly concluded a two-day session on November 30, 2022.  The session was scheduled to be held over five days.  In this post we look at the legislative business that was carried out in the Assembly, and the state of state legislatures.  13 Bills were int...
Winter session is set to be fiery – a new VP as Rajya Sabha chair, decision on impeachment of two HC judges pending, at least 10 bills and electoral rolls to debate. But will Parliament function? That’s the real question The winter session of Parliament begins today with more than 700...
The city of Moscow has a link to the political history of Bihar. A decision made here would become the catalyst for Nitish Kumar’s first full tenure as Bihar Chief Minister. On May 22, 2005, then President APJ Abdul Kalam arrived in Moscow, the first stop on an 11-day multi-c...
Around 7.4 crore voters will be eligible to exercise their franchise in Bihar’s upcoming elections. EC has added 21.5L and removed about 3.7L voters from the electoral rolls following SIR. This’ll be the first of the big-ticket state elections, soon to be followed by polls in West Bengal...
The incoming vice president is expected to be a non-partisan arbiter while being part of the executive. On him lies the onus of making Rajya Sabha a forum for civilised debate again Members of Parliament vote today to elect the vice president. The VP’s position has a dual responsibility &nd...
The government has put together seven all-party parliamentary delegations to visit 30-plus countries to convey India’s zero-tolerance policy towards terrorism. The delegations have 59 sitting MPs. Baijayant Panda, Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Sanjay Kumar Jha, Shashi Tharoor, Sh...