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Rajasthan Appointed a Seed Corporation Director in February. In June, He Was Caught Moving Fake Seeds on a Bus.
On February 10, 2026, Jugal Kishore Bishnoi was appointed non-official director on the board of the Rajasthan State Seed Corporation, a body tasked with ensu...
Congress Chose Not to Contest a Rajya Sabha Seat in Gujarat. The State Accepted.
When Shaktisinh Gohil's Rajya Sabha term expires on June 21, Congress' 66-year run of upper-house representation from Gujarat ends without a fight. With only...
To Prevent NEET From Leaking Again, India Locked Up the People Writing the New One
After cancelling NEET-UG 2026 on May 12 following a paper leak that reached over 22 lakh students, the National Testing Agency deployed what officials descri...
Telangana Court Orders Government to Follow Order Telangana Government Already Issued to Itself
In March 2024, the Telangana government issued Government Order MS No. 1, directing all state departments to procure handloom fabric exclusively through the...
Bihar's ₹26 Crore Bridge Took 11 Years to Build and 96 Hours to Shut
The railway overbridge at Itarhi Gumti crossing in Buxar, Bihar had been pending for nearly eleven years before it finally opened to the public in early June...
Odisha Orders Surprise Inspections of Mines Already Named in Publicly Available Audit Reports
Over several years, the Comptroller and Auditor General patiently documented Odisha's mining irregularities in remarkable detail: ₹4,162 crore lost to iron o...
Kerala Reveals Rs 48,733 Crore in Inherited Debt. Opposition Objects: The Numbers Are a State Secret. Also Possibly AI-Generated.
When Kerala's new UDF government, led by Chief Minister VD Satheesan, published a 195-page white paper on the state's finances in June 2026, it found that Rs...
Six Weeks and 29 Lakh Pilgrims In, Kedarnath Finally Gets a Crowd Management Plan
The 2026 Char Dham Yatra opened in April with officials assuring the public that no limit on pilgrims would be imposed. By Day 44, over 29.85 lakh devotees h...
Odisha's Most Recently Jailed Revenue Officer Returns to Duty — at the Revenue Department
On June 8, 2025, Odisha Vigilance officials arrested Dhiman Chakma, a 2021-batch IAS officer serving as Sub-Collector of Dharmagarh, after allegedly catching...
Delhi CM Solves Water Crisis: Pipes Are Working Fine, Water Simply Evaporates Before Arrival; Condensation Helpline Pending
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta offered a meteorological explanation for the capital's chronic water crisis on June 4, 2026: the water dispatched through De...
AP's Deputy Chief Minister Declared Law-and-Order Threat by Neighbouring State; His 50 Previous Films Were Approved Without Issue
On June 2, 2026 — Telangana's Formation Day — Telangana Police refused permission for Jana Sena chief and AP Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan to hold a 'Te...
Court Allows NEET Paper Leak Accused to Keep Books in Jail to Prepare for the Exam He Leaked; Admit Card Status: Outstanding
On June 2, 2026, the Rouse Avenue Court allowed Yash Yadav, one of five people in judicial custody for the NEET UG 2026 paper leak, to keep textbooks in jail...
Ladakh Announces Five New Districts to Bring Government Closer to Citizens; Also Orders All Departments to Spend Nothing, Travel Nowhere, a...
Ladakh's Lieutenant Governor Kavinder Gupta approved five new administrative districts in May 2026 — Changthang, Nubra, Sham, Zanskar, and Drass — expanding...
CBSE Revaluation Portal Charges Students Either Re 1 or Rs 69,420; Two IITs and the Finance Minister Summoned to Fix a Payment Form
When CBSE opened its Class 12 revaluation portal in late May 2026, a malicious attack on its HDFC payment gateway caused fee displays of notable creativity:...
PM Modi Promises 'Revolutionary Change' for Lakshadweep's 65,000 Residents; Revolution to Be Delivered via Improved Ice Supply and Larger B...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated and laid foundation stones for four infrastructure projects in Lakshadweep on June 5, 2026, including new...
Chhattisgarh Announces 41-Day Good Governance Festival, Because 324 Days of Regular Governance Wasn't Getting the Handpumps Fixed
"Sushasan Tihar 2026" began May 1 and runs through June 10, during which ministers, MLAs, MPs, and bureaucrats have fanned out across every village cluster a...
Lost the Chief Minister Chair, Found a Lawyer's Gown; Bar Council of India Has Follow-Up Questions
The Indian legal tradition holds that only enrolled advocates may appear before courts in full advocate's attire. Lawyers who hold constitutional office typi...
Sikkim Ran Out of Fuel, Banned Half Its Cars, Got More Fuel, Cancelled the Ban, and Will Now Explain This to a Judge
Faced with a fuel shortage in May, the Sikkim government implemented a statewide odd-even vehicle restriction — prompting the High Court to immediately take...
Tripura's Former Insurgents Are Still Waiting for the Rehabilitation Package Promised When They Surrendered in the 1990s
The Tripura Guerrilla Returnees' Demand Committee — representing former militants who gave up armed struggle in the 1990s in exchange for government promises...
India Promised Ladakh: 'Elected Leaders Will Run Things.' Then Sent the Document Where They Won't.
After years of Sonam Wangchuk's hunger strikes, cold-weather marches to Delhi, and repeated missed deadlines on statehood, the Centre finally sat down with L...
The BJP's Most Outspoken Tamil Face Quits BJP, Starts Dravidian Party, on His Own Birthday
After being sidelined as Tamil Nadu BJP chief in April 2025 — because his habit of saying accurate things about alliance partners was causing diplomatic inco...
India's Census Workers Arrived at 10 PM. The Village Decided to Arrest Them Instead.
Census workers dispatched to Hasnabad village in Bihar's East Champaran district arrived at approximately 10 PM on a Sunday, woke residents who were already...
Kerala Official Lost His Bribery Appeal in the High Court. Then the Supreme Court. Then He Tried Hiding at Home.
A former Block Development Officer in Kerala's Devikulam region was convicted years ago of demanding a ₹5,000 bribe to release housing scheme funds meant for...
India Built a System to Digitally Mark 9.8 Million Exam Papers. Three Teenagers Found 15 Flaws. The Chairman Was Fired.
CBSE's On-Screen Marking system, rolled out for the 2026 Class 12 examinations, distributed wrong answer sheets to evaluators, served blurred and illegible s...
Bihar's Social Welfare Officer and Rural Development Officer Both Vacationed in Europe. A Contractor Paid. The Government Is Surprised.
Bihar's government suspended two IAS officers — Yogesh Kumar Sagar (2017 batch, Social Welfare Department) and Abhilasha Kumari Sharma (2014 batch, Rural Dev...