The 2025 monsoon has eloquently highlighted the augmentation in the dispositions to disaster in Himalayas. The pattern of increased natural hazards as a result of climate change and uncontrolled development is quite disturbing following a continuous succession of devastating cloudbursts, flash floods, and landslides in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir resulting in death and destruction on a massive scale.

In a major step towards simplification, the Government of India has laid the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2025, in the Lok Sabha. This bill is the next leg of the 2023 Act that seeks to continue the process of decriminalising the petty and technical offences by streamlining the procedural requirements and making the penal provisions more lenient and the industry and business-friendly and simplify the environmental and forest approvals.

A recent study has found a unique genetic association behind alarmingly low rates of tuberculosis (TB) in the Sahariya tribe in central India. This finding may partly explain why the TBthe TB rate in this community is so much higher than the national mean.

Breaking the News: WHO removes Nepal from endgame list of rubella. This makes Nepal the sixth country in WHO South-East Asia Region to become free from the contagious viral disease that causes brain damage in children, deafness, and in some cases leads to miscarriage in pregnant women.

The CEC of India’s removal procedure is by design cumbersome to shield the ECI from the influence of men in power.

Constitutional Protection for the CEC

The bedrock of the CEC’s security is the provisions of Article 324(5) of the Constitution of India. It provides that the CEC can be removed from office only "in like manner and on the like grounds' as a judge of the Supreme Court.