The death of a lifeline called NREGA  https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/national/the-death-of-a-lifeline-called-mgnrega    Ajit Ranade

VB–GRAMG dismantles the justiciable right to work; it recentralises control, shifts the fiscal burden to states and weakens labour’s bargaining power in rural India. 

NREGA  gave legal status to the State’s obligation—under Article 41 of the Constitution—to secure the right to work, turning it into an enforceable entitlement

. The EGS was financed through a tax on urban workers and backed by a statutory guarantee of rural employment. Its genius lay in its
simplicity: work on demand, locally determined public works, and wages paid as a matter of right

 The design of EGS itself was inspired by pilot projects implemented in the early 1960s, under the leadership of V.S. Page, a dhoti-clad Gandhian, who was the Speaker of Maharashtra’s Legislative Council for a record 18 years

SHANTI or surrender?  an unsettling shift in India’s nuclear liability regime and governance 

the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act of 2010  did not confine liability solely to plant operators—the entities that run nuclear facilities—but extended it to suppliers as well. These suppliers include manufacturers and vendors of reactors, components, fuel and nuclear technology. Clause 17(b) of the 2010 Act empowered operators to seek compensation from suppliers if a nuclear incident resulted from defective equipment or substandard materials, preventing any link in the supply chain from evading responsibility.

Russia and France chose to work within India’s legal framework.  American corporations...created a geopolitical impasse, chilling US
nuclear bids in India despite the landmark 2008 Indo–US Civil Nuclear Agreement... sought to  dilute Clause 17(b), with the argument that it diverged from international frameworks such as the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage. 

SHANTI 2025 decisively removes supplier liability, placing full accountability on the plant owner—typically a public-sector entity such as the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL)

Aravalli, India’s backbone, is on the verge of breaking  https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/national/aravalli-indias-backbone-is-on-the-verge-of-breaking   Rajendra Singh, National Herald, 28th December 2025 Mine owners slapped dozens of false cases against me; the police too harassed me.
But back then, there were laws to protect environmental activists—and those laws were enforced. In those days, the mountain and its
protectors were safe from mining predators. Today, who knows what has changed, but no one is willing to heed the anguish of the
Aravallis. Those who understand it want to save it, but the saviours today have their back to the wall.