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Social tensions in India are currently driven by a combination of identity based conflicts, economic disparities, and digital-age challenges. Recent reports indicate a rise in communal tension, with some studies noting a significant increase in incidents of communal violence, mob lynching, and hate crimes. Key drivers include the politicization of religion, caste discrimination, and economic anxieties. Besides, the RSS union government’s players and movers are fueling rising social tensions through their rhetorical, communal, religious polarizing, divisive, and discriminatory practices.

India’s energy security arrangement with the United Arab Emirates marks a shift from transactional crude buying to a more durable architecture of supply assurance, storage access and strategic alignment. For a country that remains heavily dependent on imported oil, the significance of the deal lies not merely in additional barrels but in where those barrels are stored, who controls access during disruption, and how quickly they can be deployed when shipping lanes, sanctions or war-risk premiums threaten normal supply chains.

Unemployment in India is on the rise again, which rose to 5.2 per cent in Current Weekly Status (CWS) in April 2026, highest in the last six months. Worker Population Ratio (WPR) declined to as low as 39.5 per cent the lowest in the last one year, and Labour Force Participation deteriorated to 41.6 per cent, also lowest in the last one year.

For four years, Indian motorists had been shielded from the brutal arithmetic of global oil markets. Petrol and diesel prices barely moved upwards even as crude swung wildly across international exchanges, governments collapsed elsewhere under inflationary pressure, and energy-importing nations passed costs directly to consumers. In India, the political leadership chose another path: absorb the pain quietly through state-run oil companies and postpone the reckoning. That reckoning arrived this week.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the selection of Vadasseri Damodaran Satheesan as the new Kerala Chief Minister 10 days after the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) swept the Assembly election, the stage is set for hard bargaining for ministerial berths and portfolios.

CHANDIGARH: When the sound of a wolf's footsteps is heard, some animals, even of opposite nature, become alert, begin to warn up to one another and gather in groups. A similar kind of stir has now begun to be seen in Punjab. Whether it is Congress or Aam Aadmi Party or other parties excluding BJP, all the north and south poles are seemingly active on the same page, but why? What is fearing them? The imminent threat is implementation of SIR in Punjab. Special Intensive Revision (SIR) preparatory, activities related to the revision of electoral rolls, exercise will be undertaken from June 15 to June 24, 2026 and Booth Level Officers (BLOs) will undertake door-to-door visits across Punjab from June 25 to July 24, 2026 for filling voter verification forms.

There is a moment in every IPL season when the spreadsheet stops lying. The net run rates, the qualification scenarios, the "if Team A wins and Team B loses by more than X runs" calculus — all of it collapses into something far simpler and far crueller. Win, or go home. That moment arrived Thursday night at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow, and Chennai Super Kings walked straight into it.

The latest NCRB figures serve as a warning that threats to children are no longer confined to streets and public spaces; they now exist inside the mobile phones children carry in their hands. Digital technology, social media and the internet have opened up a new world of opportunities for children, but at the same time they have also exposed them to dangers that were difficult to imagine just a few years ago. This is why crimes against children continue to rise even amid claims of an overall decline in crime in the country.

The opposition has always been claiming that the Election Commission of India (ECI) is being controlled by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and ECI has been working to ensure that BJP wins elections in the country. They alleged that ECI is compromised while the Modi government asserted that the constitutional body is independent. Now the Supreme Court of India has asked “Why this show-off about independence?” The question makes us rethink if elections are free and fair in the Modi Era in light of the decisions and observations made by the Supreme Court in the last several years?

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was perhaps the most consequential legislation enacted in post-independence India. It did not just provide for a transfer towards the poor; it did not just set up a scheme of employment creation like the earlier “Food for Work” programmes had done; it recognized, no matter in how limited a form, a right to employment. Under the MGNREGA employment up to a maximum of 100 days per household had to be provided on demand. It set up accordingly the largest employment generation programme in the world, one that provided significant succour to hard-pressed rural households.