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Gujarat's Solar Energy Officer Was Approving 14 Projects a Day Without Visiting a Single Site. He Apparently Knew Why.
Ashwin B. Chaudhari, Gujarat's Chief Electrical Inspector at Udyog Bhavan in Gandhinagar, was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau on June 2 for issuing NO...
India Held a Meeting to Discuss Giving Ladakh Democracy. Then Edited the Minutes to Remove What Was Agreed.
In May 2026, Ladakh's Leh Apex Body and Sonam Wangchuk held long-awaited talks with MHA officials on restoring democratic governance to India's only territor...
Punjab Passed a Life-Imprisonment Anti-Sacrilege Law. Sikhism's Highest Religious Authority Declared the Law Sacrilegious.
The Punjab government passed legislation imposing life imprisonment for sacrilege against the Guru Granth Sahib — a law designed to demonstrate the state's c...
Meghalaya's Highway Contractor Put Up Thin Wooden Sticks as Cliff-Edge Barriers. A Boulder Had Already Killed Someone. The High Court Used...
The Meghalaya High Court was already hearing a PIL on the Shillong-Dawki hill road when a boulder crushed a vehicle and killed its occupants. A court-appoint...
India Called It Asia's Largest Lac Plantation. The Forest Department and the Cooperative Argued Over Who Owed the Workers Money. The Planta...
For decades, Asia's largest lac plantation employed Dalit and tribal women in Kundri village, Palamu district — a 421-acre natural forest where palash trees...
Tripura Promised Surrendered Militants Rs 45 Crore to Reenter Society. It Spent Half, Then Stopped. The Highway Closes June 5.
The Tripura government signed a Rs 45 crore rehabilitation deal with surrendered guerrillas in 2007, acknowledging that people who gave up their weapons and...
India's Most Populous State Ran on Acting Police Chiefs for Four Years. It Just Hired a Permanent One.
When Mukul Goel was removed as UP's DGP in May 2022, the state settled into an extended acting-chief arrangement that would last through five different offic...
Andhra Pradesh Was Promised a Railway Zone When Its State Was Split in Half. It Arrived 12 Years Later.
The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act of 2014 explicitly mandated a new railway zone for residual AP — effectively the ticket stub for losing a capital city...
India's Film Censors Blocked the Movie About a Man Who Becomes CM to Fight Corruption. He Became CM.
In January 2026, the CBFC blocked "Jana Nayagan" (Tamil: People's Leader), Vijay's politically charged final film, days before its Pongal release after a com...
Lakshadweep Banned Vehicles Every Wednesday. The Mainland Plane Also Lands on Wednesday.
India's unelected administrator for Lakshadweep declared all motor vehicles banned on Wednesdays starting February 25, 2026, to promote health and reduce pol...
India's Auditor Found ₹54,282 Crore in Government Spending It Cannot Explain. The Oldest Missing Receipt Is from 1985.
India's Comptroller and Auditor General tabled its annual report in April 2026 revealing that 33,973 utilisation certificates worth ₹54,282 crore remain pend...
Assam Now Requires Couples to Register Their Live-In Relationship with the Government. The Deadline Is 30 Days. Jail Is 3 Months.
The Assam Legislative Assembly passed the Uniform Civil Code, 2026, making it mandatory for couples in live-in relationships to formally register with the st...
Arunachal Pradesh Solved Its Fiscal Concerns by Halving the Ministerial Motorcade
When Prime Minister Modi asked states to conserve fuel, Arunachal Pradesh — which just topped the national Fiscal Health Index — sprang into action with a sw...
India's Highways Ministry Was Missing Its 30-Month Construction Deadlines. The New Official Deadline Is 6 Years.
Since the late 2000s, national highway projects had operated under a nominal 30-month construction deadline, which 55% of Hybrid Annuity Model projects misse...
Kerala Planted Survey Stones in Private Homes and Jailed Those Who Objected. The New Government Has Cancelled the Railway and Is Removing t...
The Silver Line was Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's signature project: a semi-high-speed rail corridor from Thiruvananthapuram to Kasaragod, officially pri...
Haryana Needed to Demolish a Mosque and Two Temples for a Metro Line. It Cut Everyone's Mobile Internet First.
At 4 AM on May 30, the Municipal Corporation of Faridabad demolished a 700-square-yard mosque at Masjid Chowk in NIT-3 and two temples — structures standing...
AP Announces Its Biggest-Ever Teacher Exam. Rank 1 Goes to the Person Who Ran the Exam. Their Record Is Then Deleted.
The State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) administers Andhra Pradesh's teacher recruitment examinations. In the Mega DSC drive — the sta...
Arunachal Tribal Groups Rioted to Keep India in Their State. The Internet Reported This as Rioting to Leave India.
The Scheduled Tribe Bachao Andolon Committee (STBAC) called a bandh in Itanagar on May 25 to demand stricter enforcement of the Inner Line Permit, a colonial...
Asia's Highest Ropeway Dangled 300 Tourists 500 Feet in the Air for 7 Hours. An Inquiry Has Been Ordered to Determine If This Constitutes a...
The Gulmarg Gondola — Jammu and Kashmir's flagship tourism showpiece and Asia's highest ropeway at roughly 13,000 feet — malfunctioned on May 25, leaving som...
India Froze Fuel Prices Through the Entire Election Season, Then Hiked Them Four Times in a Fortnight. The Government Confirms This Is Abou...
Petrol crossed ₹100 per litre in Delhi and ₹111 in Mumbai in May 2026, following India's first fuel price hikes in roughly four years. State-run oil companie...
Goa's Solution to Viral Video of Drugs Being Sold Next to a Police Kiosk: Quietly Remove the Police Sign
In April 2026, a foreign tourist posted a viral video alleging that drug peddlers were openly approaching beachgoers right next to a Goa Police kiosk at Cala...
Meghalaya's Rs 177-Crore Assembly Already Lost Its Dome Once. This Time, the Roof Is Just Being Cleaned Incorrectly.
Construction on the Rs 177-crore Meghalaya Legislative Assembly began in 2019. Its 70-tonne steel dome spectacularly fell at 12:30 AM in May 2022, with engin...
India Solves Lakshadweep's Runway Problem by Landing the Plane in the Sea
For decades, India's 36 coral Lakshadweep islands have been connected to the mainland only by ships requiring 10-20 hours and a single narrow runway on Agatt...
Chhattisgarh Has Announced a 41-Day Good Governance Festival. The Rest of the Year Is Off-Season.
The Chhattisgarh government has launched "Sushasan Tihar 2026," an official 41-day Good Governance Festival running from May 1 to June 10, during which state...
Maharashtra Minister Proposes Eco-Friendly Bakrid: Sacrifice a JPEG Instead of a Goat
With Bakrid 2026 arriving, Maharashtra Cabinet Minister Nitesh Rane offered the Muslim community an innovative theological-technological workaround: instead...