Health, education, gender, caste, tribal and welfare policy developments relevant to UPSC.
October 20, 2026
Nineteen people died at the Chorbagan Sarbojanin pandal in north Kolkata on 17 October after rain pushed a large crowd towards a single exit. The crowd dynamics behind such disasters, the rules that already exist, and where enforcement keeps failing.
October 17, 2026
India's 16th census begins its population enumeration in February 2027, with a reference date of 1 March 2027 and the snow-bound areas counted from 1 October 2026. The digital tools, the caste question, the machinery behind the count, and the delimitation that follows.