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Bhopal Officials Discover SAP Software Is Excellent at Repainting Imaginary Vehicles
In what may be India's most technologically sophisticated scam, Bhopal Municipal Corporation's Additional Commissioner (Finance) Gunwant Sewatkar and accompl...
Chandigarh Smart City Discovers Its ₹116 Crore Bank Deposits Were Imaginary
In what might be India's most innovative contribution to fintech, someone created 11 fake Fixed Deposit Receipts worth ₹116 crore in IDFC First Bank's Sector...
Bihar Misplaces ₹92,133 Crore, Asks CAG to Please Not Look Too Hard
The Comptroller and Auditor General's latest report reveals that Bihar has 62,632 pending Utilization Certificates worth ₹92,132.75 crore — money that was di...
Delhi High Court Lawyers Downgraded to Salads After India Runs Out of Gas
When the Strait of Hormuz shut down after the US-Israel-Iran conflict, India's LPG imports collapsed overnight. The Delhi High Court lawyers' canteen, which...
India Scraps Earthquake Safety Codes Because Buildings Are Expensive and Earthquakes Are Theoretical
In late 2025, the Bureau of Indian Standards unveiled India's biggest update to earthquake-resistant building codes in decades — a revised seismic zonation m...
Karnataka Officials Spend ₹20 Crore on Foreign Tours, Forget to Write About What They Learned
The Karnataka government spent ₹20.28 crore of public money funding 58 foreign trips for officials since 2023 — with another 37 trips allegedly self-funded,...
MP Sinkhole Eats 50 Boulders for Breakfast, PWD Says Not My Problem
A tunnel-deep sinkhole opened up on NH-39 in Amblai village, Sidhi district, Madhya Pradesh — wide enough to swallow vehicles and apparently hungry enough to...
Democracy Requires 240,000 Soldiers: Centre Deploys 2,400 Paramilitary Companies for Bengal's Free and Fair Election
In a deployment that would make NATO planners raise an eyebrow, the Home Ministry has authorized 2,400 companies of Central Armed Police Forces for the West...
HDFC Bank Chairman Drops Ethics Bomb, Provides Zero Evidence, Nukes $7 Billion in Market Value
In a masterclass of corporate chaos theory, HDFC Bank Part-Time Chairman Atanu Chakraborty resigned on March 18 citing mysterious "ethical" concerns he'd all...
16-Year-Old Busts Fake Sports Federation That Charged Athletes $825 to Play Pretend Olympics
In what may be India's most efficient privatization of government incompetence, a fake organization calling itself the "Youth Khelo India Federation" managed...
The Structural Prayer Bridge of Bihar
Bihar's Vikramshila Setu has officially entered the 'Structural Minimalism' era, with key pillar protection walls having eroded into the Ganges. Despite expe...
The Government-Certified Human Soul
The Transgender Persons Amendment Bill 2026 introduces a revolutionary administrative burden where gender identity is no longer a matter of self-expression,...
Ranchi’s Rodent Defense Squad
In a stunning display of appetite for justice, a gang of highly motivated rats in a Ranchi police station reportedly consumed 200kg of seized marijuana store...
India Rejects World Happiness Index for Failing to Measure the Joy of WhatsApp Forwards
After the 2026 World Happiness Report ranked India lower than several neighboring countries currently facing total economic collapse, officials have question...
Government Promises to Save Satire by Appointing a 'Director of Approved Chuckles'
During a Supreme Court hearing regarding the IT Rules, the government clarified that its Fact-Checking Unit (FCU) is not meant to suppress humor or criticism...
Bureaucratic HIIT: Rajasthan Shuffles 25 IAS Officers to Prevent Them from Recognizing Their Staff
The Rajasthan government executed a major bureaucratic reshuffle, transferring 25 IAS officers in a single night. This 'Musical Chairs' approach to governanc...
Digital Nirvana: SAIL Chairman Deleted from Official Existence by Server Refresh
In a peak display of digital-first governance, a technical glitch on the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) website caused the name of the SAIL Chairm...
Bureaucratic Miracle: Government Realizes One Vendor is Not Two People
The Union Health Ministry has made the scientific discovery that a street vendor with a municipal certificate is the same human being as a street vendor need...
Bollywood’s Newest Constable: The Sunny Leone Recruitment
In a stunning display of database integrity, the UP Police Recruitment and Promotion Board issued a formal admit card for a constable position to none other...
The River That 'Bullied' The Bridge To Collapse
In a masterclass of bureaucratic accountability, Siwan administration officials have blamed the sudden collapse of a 30-year-old bridge on a nearby canal. Ac...
Bihar's Revolutionary 'Plastic' Bridge Reinforcement
Following the collapse of the fifth bridge in just eleven days in Bihar, the local administration has introduced a state-of-the-art 'Polyethylene Protection...
84 Bureaucrats Declare National Emergency Over a Biscuit at Makar Dwar
A group of 84 former bureaucrats and 116 veterans has written a stern letter to the nation, warning that democracy is under siege because a politician had te...
India's Governors Master the Art of 'Professional Assembly Ghosting'
The 'Governor-State' feud has reached a new level of performance art in March 2026. In Tamil Nadu, the Governor has perfected a '7-minute exit strategy,' whi...
Government Launches 'Real-Time Gas Stalking' to Monitor Your Empty Fuel Tank
Invoking the Essential Commodities Act of 1955, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has issued the 'Petroleum and Natural Gas (Furnishing of Informatio...
ECI Deploys 113 Math Wizards to Watch Money Vanish
The Election Commission of India has mobilized a small army of 113 IRS officers as Expenditure Observers for the upcoming polls in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal...