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193 MPs Try to Impeach Election Commissioner, Parliament Says No Without Saying Why
For the first time in Indian democratic history, 193 MPs — 130 from Lok Sabha and 63 from Rajya Sabha — filed notices to impeach Chief Election Commissioner...
India Seizes ₹650 Crore in Cash, Booze, and Drugs Meant to Buy Votes, Calls It Democracy
As India heads to the polls for Assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and Puducherry, the Election Commission has been running what a...
Delhi's Water Utility Doesn't Know How Much Water It Has, Where It Goes, or Whether It's Safe
The CAG's Performance Audit Report, laid before the Delhi Legislative Assembly on March 23, 2026, paints a portrait of a water utility that has achieved a re...
Pune City Engineer Accumulates ₹2,000 Crore on a Government Salary, Nobody Asks Questions for 22 Years
Prashant Waghmare served as Chief City Engineer for Pune Municipal Corporation for over two decades, during which he apparently discovered that municipal eng...
J&K Sat on ₹34,000 Crore It Couldn't Spend, Then Forgot to Give It Back
The Comptroller and Auditor General has just tabled a report revealing that Jammu & Kashmir's departments collectively sat on ₹34,918 crore in unspent saving...
India Post's Digital Bank Has 58% Dead Accounts and 362 Hours of Annual Downtime
India Post Payments Bank was supposed to bring Digital India to every village post office. The CAG has now confirmed it brought something closer to Digital T...
Skill India Trained Millions of Ghost Students, Paid Their Imaginary Bank Accounts
India spent over ₹10,000 crore on its Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana to "Skill India" and the CAG has now confirmed the scheme skilled nobody but the fr...
India's Most Disaster-Prone State Gets Least Disaster Money Because the Formula Counts People, Not Cyclones
The 16th Finance Commission increased India's State Disaster Response Fund by a generous 59.5% to ₹2,04,401 crore — and then distributed it using a formula s...
Hospitals Invented Fake Emergencies to Bill Veterans' Healthcare Scheme, Split the Profits 50:50
The CBI has uncovered a multi-crore fraud targeting the Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS), the healthcare program for India's retired military...
CBI Files 4th Case Against Anil Ambani, Who Apparently Treated LIC Like a Personal ATM for a Decade
On April 1, 2026 — a date that writes its own punchline — the CBI registered its fourth case against Anil Ambani and Reliance Communications for allegedly de...
Fake Government "War Lockdown" Notice Causes Nationwide Panic Before Revealing It Was April Fool's
On April 1, 2026, two PDFs styled as government press releases went mega-viral on WhatsApp and Telegram. One claimed to be from the Delhi government announci...
India Finally Counts Its Citizens After 16-Year Break, Hopes They Haven't Moved
On April 1, 2026, India finally launched the first phase of Census 2027 — the Houselisting and Housing Census — after a 16-year gap since the last headcount...
West Bengal Mob Holds 7 Judges Hostage for 9 Hours, Mastermind Caught Fleeing at Airport
In Kaliachak, Malda district, a mob surrounded a BDO office on April 1 and held seven judicial officers hostage for over nine hours. The officers were conduc...
BJP Promises to Make Assam Flood-Free in Two Years, Brahmaputra Presumably Not Consulted
In their 2026 Assam election manifesto launched on March 31, the BJP unveiled the Badh Mukt Assam Mission: a ₹18,000 crore commitment to make Assam flood-fre...
Hyderabad Solves LPG Crisis by Hiding 414 Gas Cylinders in a Graveyard
As India grapples with a crippling LPG shortage caused by the Strait of Hormuz closure, Hyderabad police busted a black market racket operating out of, and t...
MP Moves Religious Holiday to Avoid Working on Financial Year's Last Day
In a masterclass of last-minute governance, the Madhya Pradesh General Administration Department issued an order on March 27 giving district collectors the o...
KBC Winner Tehsildar Arrested for Stealing Flood Relief Money
Amita Singh Tomar, a tehsildar posted in Vijaypur, Sheopur district, became a household name after winning ₹50 lakh on Amitabh Bachchan's Kaun Banega Crorepa...
Sinkhole Eats 50 Boulders, PWD Says "Not Our Problem"
A tunnel-deep sinkhole appeared on National Highway 39 near Amblai village in Sidhi district, Madhya Pradesh, and proceeded to devour over 50 large boulders...
Scammers Use AI Deepfake of Finance Minister to Steal Money, Proving India's Economy Is Now Fictional in Multiple Ways
Delhi Police's Southwest District Cyber Unit arrested eleven individuals for orchestrating an AI-driven investment scam that used deepfake technology to crea...
Nitish Kumar Spends Career Fighting Dynasty Politics, Installs Son as Deputy CM After 3-Week Party Membership
Nitish Kumar, Bihar's longest-serving Chief Minister and a man who has spent his entire political career railing against dynasty politics, resigned from the...
Unemployed Postgraduate Achieves India's Highest Bomb Threat KPI: 1,100 Hoaxes from Mom's House
Srinivas Louis, a 47-year-old postgraduate from Bengaluru currently unemployed and living with his retired government employee mother in rented accommodation...
Supreme Court Checks on Vyapam Probe After 11 Years, Discovers CBI Still "Looking Into It"
In 2015, the Supreme Court handed the Vyapam scam — a sprawling admission and recruitment fraud in Madhya Pradesh involving politicians, bureaucrats, and med...
Telangana Revenue Minister Claims His Wife, Son, and Brother Are "Distant Relatives"
Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy of Telangana has achieved a new frontier in political denial. His family's firm, Raghav Constructions, was raided i...
India's Potholes Now Performing Medical Miracles That Hospitals Cannot
Vineeta Shukla, 50, was declared brain-dead at a Bareilly hospital with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 3 (the worst possible), pupils fixed and dilated, zero...
India Spent 5 Years Banning Coal Tandoors for Clean Air, Now Begs Restaurants to Please Use Coal Again
In what may be India's most efficient policy reversal, the Commission for Air Quality Management revoked all GRAP restrictions in Delhi-NCR, including the ca...