Sakshi Mishra

On a September morning in 2025, YouTuber and educator Nitesh Rajput uploaded a video titled "Reality of SSC Exam" to his channel. Armed with Right to Information replies and publicly available government documents, he questioned the transparency of India's Staff Selection Commission examination process, specifically scrutinising tender allocations to private vendors conducting these high-stakes exams that determine the futures of millions of aspirants. The video, which rapidly crossed three...

In a series of landmark judgments that will reshape land acquisition jurisprudence across India, the Supreme Court has upheld thousands of land acquisitions undertaken by the Delhi Development Authority and other Delhi government entities between 1957 and 2006, while simultaneously providing relief mechanisms for affected landowners, marking a pivotal moment in resolving a decade-long legal crisis that had thrown urban development projects in the national capital into disarray. A three-judge...

In July 2025, fifty schoolchildren in Bihar were rushed to a government hospital after consuming worm-contaminated food served as part of the Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman (PM-Poshan) scheme, which most Indians still call the Mid-Day Meal. Three months earlier, in Rajasthan, two separate food poisoning cases were reported from government schools within weeks of each other. In January 2023, parents in West Bengal were horrified when their children returned home, describing a snake's body...

India’s ongoing legal battle over the 2023 amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules represents one of the most significant constitutional confrontations in the digital era. At the heart of the dispute is the government’s attempt to empower a Fact Check Unit (FCU) to label online content related to the “business of the Central Government” as “fake, false, or misleading,” compelling social media intermediaries to remove such content...