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Andhra Police Allegedly Ran Protection for a Honey-Trap Ring That Extorted Rs 1 Crore. Their Punishment: Voluntary Retirement
On April 18, a 24-year-old Bengaluru resident filed a complaint in Anantapur that unravelled a honey-trap extortion ring run by prime accused Mamillapalli Ra...
Nagaland Traders Threaten to Shut Down the State Over Seats on Municipal Councils That Can't Pay Their Own Staff
Nagaland's ULB elections, held in 2024 after a 20-year delay, produced municipal councils that promptly ran out of cash: Dimapur and Kohima together drew mor...
Manipur Police Constable Changes Into Plain Clothes, Stone-Pelts His Own Colleagues and Torches Their Vehicles, Gets Arrested — Separately,...
Manipur's law-and-order crisis has reached its logical conclusion: the police are now policing the police. On April 21–22, Manipur Police arrested two of the...
Uttarakhand Police File FIRs Against Pilgrims Complaining About 15-Hour Kedarnath Queues — Same Day, Separate Video Surfaces of Police Lath...
Uttarakhand's Char Dham Yatra crowd-management strategy is a two-step program. Step one: if pilgrims are forced to wait up to fifteen hours for darshan witho...
Chhattisgarh Man Dumps Almonds on Housing Board Officer's Desk to Help Her Remember Where She'd Put His File for a Year — File Found Within...
After twelve months of following up on a single housing file, Bilaspur resident Tarun Sahu concluded that the Chhattisgarh Housing Board's filing system oper...
India's Digital India Centres Don't Have Aadhaar Service, e-District Service, or Money — But They Definitely Have a Mandatory Certification...
MeitY's Common Service Centres are pitched as the local backbone of Digital India: a village-level entrepreneur (VLE) opens a small office, and rural India a...
Manipur Inaugurated a ₹6.35 Crore Light-and-Sound Show That Has Yet to Light, Sound, or Show Anything
A sweeping CAG performance audit of Manipur's public finances catalogued the kind of failures usually associated with movie villains in their planning phase....
Sikkim's State-Owned Bank Hires Candidate Who Scored 26 Marks, Rejects One Who Scored 128 — CAG Calls It a Recruitment Process
The Comptroller and Auditor General's Performance Audit on the State Bank of Sikkim — the only state-owned bank in India — found that against 26 Assistant Ma...
Ludhiana Offers ₹1,550 Crore to Anyone Willing to Clean It — No Takers, Twice
Ludhiana — a city of 35 lakh people, Punjab's financial engine, and a former Smart City Mission beneficiary that already burned through ₹935 crore with littl...
India's Drone Revolution Hits Turbulence: Aviation Regulator Charged ₹5 Lakh Per File to Approve Imports
While India's leadership touts a drone revolution and makes sweeping policy speeches about unmanned aerial vehicles transforming agriculture, delivery, and d...
Indore Cops Disable CCTV, Break Into Home, Steal Gold — Forgot About the Other Cameras
In a plot twist that would embarrass a Bollywood screenwriter, five Indore police officers — including a Sub-Inspector — arrived at businessman Gaurav Jain's...
Goa Destroyed 24% of Its Water Bodies, Polluted 60% of the Rest, Still Sells Itself as Beach Paradise
A Jal Shakti Ministry census found 360 of Goa's 1,463 recorded water bodies are completely dead — dried up, silted, or destroyed. Of those still technically...
Tamil Nadu Water Minister Ran Rs 1,020 Crore Bribe Factory From the Sanitation Department
The Enforcement Directorate uncovered a Rs 1,020 crore bribe racket inside Tamil Nadu's Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department, allegedly cente...
Puducherry Became India's Counterfeit Drug Capital, Shipped Fake Medicines to 16 States, and the Government's Response Was to Do Nothing
Puducherry achieved the remarkable feat of becoming India's counterfeit pharmaceutical hub under its government's nose. A syndicate run by kingpin Raja alias...
Andhra Pradesh Gave Away 19.83 GW of Tribal Land to Adani and Friends Without Asking the Tribes
Andhra Pradesh holds India's highest pumped storage potential at 44 GW, and successive governments have treated it like a clearance sale. The previous YSRCP...
Rajasthan Marble Waste Dump So Toxic It Causes Silicosis, So Photogenic It Gets 20,000 Visitors Every Weekend
Kishangarh in Ajmer district, Rajasthan, hosts Asia's largest marble waste dumping yard — 350 acres of chalky white marble slurry that looks exactly like a s...
Rajasthan RAS Exam Topper Who Went Viral for "Serving the People" Interview Caught Taking Rs 60,000 Bribe Within Months of Posting
In what might be the fastest speedrun from idealism to corruption charges in Indian administrative history, SDM Kajal Meena — a 2024-batch Rajasthan Administ...
Telangana Gave 360 Rice Millers Government Paddy Worth Rs 3,960 Crore, They Invested It in Tollywood Films and Real Estate Instead
When 360+ rice millers in Telangana were handed government paddy under the custom milling rice policy, they were supposed to return milled rice within 15 day...
Belagavi Engineer Started as Daily Wager on Rs 200/Day, Lokayukta Finds 6 Kg Gold, 18 Properties, and Rs 14 Crore in Assets
On April 11, Lokayukta teams simultaneously raided seven locations connected to Ajaysingh Bapusingh Rajapur, an Assistant Executive Engineer in Belagavi's Di...
Modi's First Constitutional Amendment Defeat in 12 Years: Women's Reservation Bill Sinks After Opposition Calls It a Delimitation Trojan Ho...
On April 17, the Modi government suffered its first constitutional amendment defeat in twelve years when the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill — bundling 3...
Himachal DGP Allegedly Snatches DSP's Car Mid-Duty, Entire Police Service Rebels, Government Calls the Rebellion Fake
On March 10, DSP Vijay Raghuwanshi was on duty near Kasumpti, Shimla, when his official vehicle was withdrawn on alleged senior-level instructions — no writt...
Odisha Dam Safety Engineer Started at Rs 2,000/Month, Vigilance Finds Rs 1.81 Crore in Deposits and Rs 13 Lakh in Flight Tickets
Rajesh Chandra Mohanty joined the Odisha government in 1994 as a stipendiary engineer at Rs 2,000 a month. Thirty-two years later, as Additional Chief Engine...
Arunachal's Border Highway to China Included Rs 130 Crore in Compensation for Villages and Assets That Don't Exist
The Arunachal Frontier Highway is supposed to be India's strategic answer to Chinese road-building along the Line of Actual Control — a muscular declaration...
Meghalaya's Shillong-Tura Road: Started in 2010 at Rs 1,303 Crore, Still Not Built, Now Costs Rs 2,366 Crore
In 2010, Meghalaya sanctioned a road to connect Shillong to Tura via Nongstoin and Rongjeng for Rs 1,303 crore. In 2026, the road is still not fully built —...
Mizoram Pays Rs 117 Crore to One Guy Who Didn't Even Own the Land It Acquired for the Air Force
In a feat of bureaucratic choreography, Mizoram acquired land near Lengpui airport for an Indian Air Force base at a generous Rs 187.90 crore — then proceede...