Legislation, court rulings and elections — what changed, who it affects, and what it costs.
A 3% dearness allowance increase from 1 July 2026 takes the rate to 63% and costs ₹10,016.10 crore a year. We ran the government’s own formula against the price index it uses: it gives 63.77%, the fraction is dropped, and across 1.17 crore people that fraction is worth about ₹2,560 crore.
Read the full story →The caption page of the federal indictment lists the counts beside each defendant’s name. Lucas faces five. Her business partner Carlton Upton Jr. faces six. The full count-by-defendant map, the eight days the document spent under seal, and what the honest services count has to prove.
The Justice Department confirms a judicially authorised warrant but not its target or purpose. What is on the record, what unnamed sources say, the Justice Manual’s approval rule for searching a member of Congress, and the time limits on the allegations aired in public.
About 2,000 to 2,500 people were detained in Delhi on 10 October. A day-by-day account of the week, what BNSS section 126 says a peace bond does and does not forbid, and a minister’s defence of the voter-roll deletions set against Election Commission data.
Delhi Police had not granted permission by Wednesday, with a section 163 order in force. What is on the record, what each side claims, why only Parliament can remove a Chief Election Commissioner, and the three removal attempts so far.
Highways, tap water and UPI on one side; a campaign finance scheme struck down 5–0 by the Supreme Court, a CAG finding of fourteen-times cost overrun, and 193 investigations producing two convictions on the other. Every figure from an official or judicial source.
