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50 IAS and IPS Officers Collectively Bought Land Near Bhopal, Then Approved a ₹3,200 Crore Bypass Through It, Then Rezoned It Residential....
In April 2022, around 50 IAS and IPS officers from Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, Haryana, and Delhi collectively purchased agricultural land in Gur...
Nagaland Spent Rs 9 Crore Over 16 Years Not Building a Road, Then Confirmed It Might Not Be Worth Finishing Anyway
In March 2009, the Ministry of Urban Development approved an 18.85 km road from Peren district to National Highway 39 at Chumoukedima and assigned it to Naga...
The Courteous Embezzler: Odisha Treasury Clerk Waited 5 Months After Each Genuine Pension Payment Before Stealing the Same Amount
The Chandbali Sub-Treasury in Odisha's Bhadrak district runs on the Integrated Financial Management System, a digital platform deployed to modernise public f...
Arunachal Pradesh Solves Its Infrastructure Deficit by Building Fake Houses for the Census
India's first digital census began house-listing in Arunachal Pradesh from May 1, and villages have allegedly found a creative workaround to the development...
Six Women Collapsed After Routine C-Sections at Kota's Government Hospital. Two Died. The Drug Controller Banned the Medicines While Patien...
On the night of May 4-5, 2026, at least six women developed life-threatening complications within 8-10 hours of caesarean deliveries at Kota's New Medical Ho...
Diglipur's Tap Water Arrives Every Third Day. Its Power Grid Has Run on One Turbine Since April 8. Officials Issued a Circular.
Since April 8, 2026, the Andaman Electricity Department has been officially rationing power across Diglipur in North Andaman — not as an emergency measure, b...
Two Salaries, Two Names, One Leave Application: How a Jharkhand Constable Staffed Two State Police Forces Simultaneously for Two Years
In 2005, Ranjan Kumar joined the Jharkhand Police as a constable. In December 2007, while on officially sanctioned leave from his Jharkhand post, he enrolled...
India's 100th Airport Has Had No Flights For 21 Months. Sikkim's Legislature Decided The Best Use Of This Window Was To Rename It.
Pakyong Airport was inaugurated by Prime Minister Modi in September 2018 as India's 100th operational airport, perched at 4,500 feet in East Sikkim as the co...
Odisha Spent Rs 320 Crore on Hospital Fire Safety. Its Flagship ICU Had Its Sprinkler Valve Closed and Its Fire Alarm Switched Off. Twelve...
At 2:30 am on March 16, 2026, a fire broke out in the trauma care ICU of SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack — Odisha's largest and most senior gover...
Jharkhand's Excise Constable Exam Had 164 People in a Dark Building at Midnight — 159 Were the Candidates, 5 Were the Gang That Charged The...
On April 11, 2026, Ranchi police raided an under-construction building in Tamar at midnight and found 164 people gathered quietly in the dark: 159 aspiring e...
Three Years. Five Deadlines. One Chairman Who Quietly Resigned. Zero Pages. Manipur's Commission of Inquiry Has Until May 20.
On June 4, 2023, the Central government established a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the causes, spread, and administrative failures of the Manipur vio...
Guwahati's Rs 802 Crore Smart City Budget Had Rs 327 Crore for a Riverfront Makeover and Rs 14 Crore for a Temple. In April 2026, Four Peop...
Guwahati entered the Smart Cities Mission in 2017, receiving Rs 802 crore for urban transformation. Priorities included Brahmaputra riverfront beautification...
Nagaland Approved Rs 430 Crore for Its 13-Year Foothills Road. Then Denied the Approval Existed. Then Admitted It Did. Then Said the Rs 430...
The Nagaland Foothills Road — a 395 km highway connecting Tizit in Mon district to Khelma in Peren district — has been under construction since 2011. After 1...
Mizoram Lost Rs 960 Crore in Pig Farming to One Disease. The Government Compensated 1.6% of That and Announced the Rest Would Be Covered If...
Since March 2021, African Swine Fever has killed 71,912 pigs in Mizoram, devastating 8,966 pig-farming families and erasing an estimated Rs 960 crore in live...
In One Election, the Lottery King's Family Won Three Constituencies Across Three States Via Three Different Political Parties
In the May 4, 2026 election results, the Martin family achieved what usually takes political dynasties three generations: they swept constituencies across tw...
Andaman's Kalpong Dam Makes Power From Water. That Power Pumps Drinking Water. Both Are Now Gone and Officials Are Formally Proud of the Lo...
Since April 8, 2026, Diglipur's Electricity Department has been deliberately rationing power across North Andaman's 15 gram panchayats — not due to equipment...
Meghalaya's 30,000 Deficit Teachers Went To Court In 2017 For A Pension. In 2026, The Government Filed A Scheme So Watered Down That Teache...
In 2017, deficit grant teachers in Meghalaya took the government to the High Court demanding a pension. The court agreed they deserved one. By September 2023...
Tripura's NH-208 Turned Into A Pothole Within Two Months Of Completion. Residents Who Raised Alarms During Construction Were Ignored, And N...
The section of National Highway 208 connecting Erarpaar to Manikbhandar under Kamalpur subdivision in Tripura was supposed to be finished infrastructure. Wit...
Nagaland Spent Rs 27.97 Crore Building A Water Pipeline For Kohima. Ten Years Later, It Remains Uncommissioned Because Nobody Secured The W...
The Kohima Town Water Supply Augmentation Project launched in 2012 with an ADB loan and a promise: 31 million litres of daily relief for a city running at 82...
Tamil Nadu's Vigilance Wing Sat On A Rs 397 Crore Transformer Tender Complaint For Three Years. The Day The Madras High Court Began Hearing...
Anti-corruption NGO Arappor Iyakkam alleged that 10 tenders floated by TANGEDCO between 2021 and 2023 — for roughly 45,800 distribution transformers worth Rs...
The CBI Walked Into Arunachal's Civil Secretariat On May 5 For A Supreme-Court-Ordered Probe Into Rs 1,270 Crore Of Contracts Awarded Over...
On April 6, 2026 the Supreme Court directed the CBI to conduct a 16-week preliminary inquiry into roughly Rs 1,270 crore of public-works contracts awarded be...
Andhra Pradesh's Liquor Scam Now Has Three Central Agencies Stacked On The Same Paper Trail. The Income Tax Department Joined On May 2 With...
The Special Investigation Team has already pegged bribes at Rs 1,677.68 crore from 16 distilleries that secured government supply orders worth Rs 10,835.37 c...
Sikkim Has Been Declared India's First Fully Paperless State Judiciary. The Citizens Trying To Reach That Bench In Person Have Not Had A Wo...
On May 1, 2026, at the National Conclave on Technology and Judicial Education at Chintan Bhawan, Gangtok, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant formally declared...
Himachal Pradesh Is So Broke The CM Halved His Own Salary, Cut Ministers' Pay 30%, And Deferred 30% Of The Chief Secretary's And DGP's Wage...
On April 18, 2026, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's Finance (Regulations) Department issued a notification deferring 30 percent of the salaries of Him...
ED's Latest Chhattisgarh Liquor Raid Pulls In Rs 53 Lakh Cash And 3.2 Kg Of Gold. Six Years In, The Accused List Now Reads Like A Baghel-Er...
On April 30, 2026, the Enforcement Directorate's Raipur Zonal Office searched 13 premises across Raipur, Durg, Bhilai and Bilaspur in the latest tranche of t...