CURRENT AFFAIRS

On 3 September 2026, Ladakh Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena approved the notification for establishing Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Councils in all seven districts.

Bihar and Jharkhand signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 31 August 2026 for sharing the waters of the Sone River.

Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP P. Chidambaram has drawn attention to India's position in the Electoral Democracy Index (EDI) published by the Sweden-based Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute.

A controversy involving Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma, Acting Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court, has revived an important question before the Supreme Court Collegium:

A nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court has modified the broad interpretation of the term “industry” laid down in the landmark Bangalore Water Supply & Sewerage Board v. R. Rajappa (1978) judgment.

The Union Government is considering significant reforms to strengthen the implementation of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. 

The Lok Sabha recently passed the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026, tightening the anti-paper leak law, amid repeated disruptions over Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi’s allegation that Union Home Minister Amit Shah was responsible for the use of force against students protesting at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. 

The Supreme Court has directed all States and Union Territories to consider increasing the retirement age of judicial officers from 60 to 61 years as an interim measure. The Court is also examining whether the retirement age should be uniformly enhanced to 62 years across the country.

The Supreme Court recently clarified the circumstances under which a judicial decision can be declared per incuriam.

The Supreme Court set aside a judgment of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) after finding that it relied on fake, non-existent, and AI-generated hallucinated judgments/precedents.