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India Breaks the Char Dham Pilgrimage Record. Pilgrims Respond by Breaking the Queue.
The Char Dham Yatra 2026 opened on April 22 and promptly broke every previous attendance record, with 11 lakh pilgrims arriving in the first 23 days — roughl...
Eighteen MLAs Swept Out, Record Voter Turnout, Landslide for Change: Puducherry Swears In the Same Chief Minister It Had in 2001
The 2026 Puducherry Assembly elections saw the NDA alliance win 18 of 30 seats against a backdrop of anti-incumbency — 18 sitting MLAs lost, including severa...
Nagaland Requires Government Certificate to Slaughter a Pig; State That Serves Pork at Weddings, Funerals, and Church Gatherings Adjusts to...
Following the confirmation of African Swine Fever (ASF) at Signal Angami Village in Dimapur on May 20, 2026, the Nagaland government declared a 10-km Infecte...
Assam Requires All Live-In Couples to Register With the Government Within 30 Days or Face Prison
The Uniform Civil Code, Assam, 2026 Bill — tabled in the Assam legislative assembly on May 25, 2026 — makes the registration of live-in relationships mandato...
Meghalaya Has More Schools Than Any State in India. 206 of Those Schools Have Zero Students. The State Still Ranked Last.
The Union Education Ministry's Performance Grading Index 2.0, released in May 2026, placed Meghalaya last among all 36 states and UTs with a score of 448 out...
Lakshadweep's Unelected Administrator Lifts 47-Year Prohibition to Serve Tourists; the Community That Requested the Ban Has No Legislature...
The Lakshadweep administration amended the 1979 Prohibition Regulation in February 2026, permitting alcohol service at government-run dak bungalows on Chetla...
Centre Invents Pay-to-Vote: Ladakh Gets Democracy Once It Can Afford It
Six years after Ladakh was stripped of its legislature and turned into a Union Territory, the Central government finally agreed on May 23, 2026 to give it an...
Government Locates ₹54,282 Crore It Spent — Cannot Explain Where
In its April 2026 report, the Comptroller & Auditor General found that Central government ministries have ₹54,282 crore in outstanding utilisation certificat...
Guinness Record Set for World's Most Invisible National Symbol
On May 2, 2026, 223 Navy divers unfurled a massive 60m × 40m national flag at the bottom of the sea off Radhanagar Beach, Havelock Island, setting a Guinness...
BJP Marched to Kashmir's CM House to Protest Its Own Government's Liquor Policy. The LG Who Could Stop It Is Also Theirs.
On May 15, 2026, the BJP's Jammu & Kashmir unit marched through Srinagar toward Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's residence on Gupkar Road to protest the operat...
Someone Forged a Letter From Amit Shah Annexing Darjeeling to Sikkim. Politicians Issued Denials Before Checking the Letterhead.
On May 22, 2026, a forged document bearing Home Minister Amit Shah's signature began circulating online, claiming the Union Ministry of Home Affairs was init...
Manipur Collected ₹101 Crore Specifically for Construction Workers. Then Kept ₹37 Crore of It. Its Welfare Cheques Bounced.
The CAG's performance audit of Manipur's Building and Other Construction Workers' Welfare Board found that of ₹101.15 crore collected as labour cess — a tax...
West Bengal's New BJP Government Spent Five Years Calling Mamata's Cash Transfer a 'Freebie.' Week One: They Doubled It.
For five years, BJP leaders campaigned against Mamata Banerjee's Lakshmir Bhandar scheme — a monthly cash transfer of Rs 1,500 to women — calling it 'revari...
Rajasthan's 'Better Names' Campaign Distributed a List of Better Names. They Included 'Beggar,' 'Terrifying,' and 'Ego.'
In April 2026, the Rajasthan Education Department launched the 'Sarthak Naam Abhiyan' — a campaign to help government school students in Classes 1 through 9...
India's Chief Justice Called Unemployed Youth Cockroaches. So They Registered a Political Party.
On May 15, 2026, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant compared unemployed youth to 'cockroaches' and 'parasites of society' — a metaphor he later clarified was...
Himachal Pradesh Could Not Pay Its Debts, So It Withheld 30% of the Chief Secretary's Salary — Temporarily, It Promises
In April 2026, Himachal Pradesh became the first Indian state to formally defer 30 percent of its Chief Secretary's and DGP's monthly pay — along with 20 per...
A 22-Year-Old in Mizoram Jail Forged 17 Court Orders and Released 17 Convicts; State Forms a Committee
Between January 30 and March 18, 2026, seventeen convicts — including those serving time for POCSO offences, drug trafficking, and theft — walked out of Lung...
Gujarat's Collector Upgraded the State's Digital Portal With One Feature: A Bribe-Per-Square-Metre Column
Former Surendranagar Collector Rajendra Patel found India's land-conversion process inefficient. His solution: download applications from the state's own Int...
Chandigarh Declares Car-Free Wednesdays; Commissions 17 Buses to Drive Everyone to Work Anyway
On May 20, 2026, Chandigarh UT Administrator Gulab Chand Kataria issued a directive ordering staff at the UT Secretariat, Punjab-Haryana High Court, and Punj...
Two Children Killed in Rocket Attack on Their Bishnupur Home; Manipur Fixes the Problem by Cutting Internet in Five Districts
On April 7, 2026, suspected militants fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a sleeping family’s home in Tronglaobi, Moirang, Bishnupur district, killing a five...
Jharkhand’s GST Officers Helpfully Resolved Your Tax Problem — For ₹90,000 Cash, Payable in Installments
On May 20, 2026, the CBI arrested a Superintendent and an Inspector from the Central Goods and Services Tax office in Giridih, Jharkhand, for demanding ₹90,0...
Govt Spends Rs 10,000 Crore Training 4.8 Lakh Indians in Digital Skills; Proudly Places 85,000 — Rest Learned to Use Email Address 'abc@gma...
CAG Report No. 5 of 2026 has reviewed three Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) skill development schemes and produced a finding best described as arithme...
Great Nicobar's ₹81,000-Crore Project Got Tribal Consent the Traditional Way: At a Meeting Where Nobody Was Told What They Were Signing
On January 7, 2026, tribal leaders from Great Nicobar Island allege they were called to a government meeting and presented with 'land surrender certificates'...
Uttarakhand Rewarded Its Magsaysay-Winning Anticorruption Officer with a Training Academy Posting. He Donated Nine Years of Unused Travel A...
IFS officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi, 2002-batch Uttarakhand cadre, exposed a ₹1.6-crore eco-tourism scam in the state's forest department and received the Ramon Ma...
CAG Discovers ₹54,282 Crore in Unaccounted Government Spending; Some Receipts Still Pending Since 1985
CAG Report No. 6 of 2026, tabled in Parliament on April 2, found that 15 central ministries have collectively left 33,973 utilisation certificates unsubmitte...