The Supreme Court of India has directed 17 states and eight Union Territories to frame rules for registering Sikh marriages under the Anand Marriage Act, 1909, within four months. Until the rules are notified, states must continue to register Sikh marriages under existing laws. This landmark direction seeks to give legal recognition to Sikh marriages performed through the Anand Karaj ceremony, ensuring Sikh couples can obtain official certificates affirming their marital status.

The Indian economic situation will be a mixed one in 2025-consumers enjoy the benefit of cinematic inflation, but the government experiences the issue of underperformance of the nominal GDP, which negatively influences the income collection and fiscal goals.

A constitutional Presidential reference has recently been filed in May 2025 in the Supreme Court of India. The reference aims to gain a clear picture on the 14 questions which are about who can wield power on the Governors and the President through Articles 200 and 201 of the Constitution. This is after the historic decision of the Court in May 2025 in the case State of Tamil Nadu vs. Governor of Tamil Nadu that provided schedules in which Governors had to take action against the State Bills and the leaders of the Government to take action to end the delays, and delays were judicially checked.

Article 1: Impact of Frequent Elections to the Indian Democracy.
Issue: What is a suggested change given in the article in order to dampen the disruptive British impact of the frequency of elections in India?
a) Basing the budget of Election Commission.
b) Installing a two party system.
c) Aligning national and state polls (One Nation, One Election).
d) Door to door position complicates the count of polling stations.

Reason why: The election is connected to state and national polls (One Nation, One Election).
Elaboration: "One Nation, One election is a proposed change in which, according to the article, the mechanism with which the national and state elections may be aligned to save on expenses, reduction of the discontinuity and to enable governance go on more smoothly.

The democracy of India has been branded as the festival of the people with millions of people voting during each election. Although regular polls are the manifestation of the participation system, they also lead to economic, developmental, and social problems. Their long-term effect on governance is debatable in 2025.