Nine Species Could Cover a Third of India’s Forest Carbon. A New Study Explains How
Researchers tested 160 protected animals to find which anchor species shelter the most wildlife and the most stored carbon. India’s conservation effort has long been built around the tiger. Protect the tiger’s forest, and everything else living in it stays safe too. So a study published this year asks the obvious follow-up. Which other anchor […]
A Student Built a Website to Report Bribes. Five Million Requests Later, He Took It Down
Bribes.fyi collected anonymous accounts of alleged bribe demands for six weeks, then shut down and said the data would eventually go. On 2 July 2026, a 20-year-old engineering student in Delhi put a website online. It asked one question. Had anyone at a government office asked them for a bribe? Six weeks later Bribes.fyi was […]
Parliament Passed Eleven Bills in Nineteen Days. Nine Went Through Without an MP Speaking.
A PRS Legislative Research note sets out how much time each Bill in the Monsoon Session 2026 got, and how little of the schedule Parliament used. The Monsoon Session 2026 ran from 20 July to 13 August. Both Houses met for 19 days, and Parliament passed eleven Bills. In the Lok Sabha, nine of those […]
Your Employer May Soon Be Able to Send Part of Your Salary Straight Into a Mutual Fund
SEBI proposed the salary deduction route in May and closed comments in June, yet the final rule has still not appeared. Money already leaves most salaried Indians’ pay before they ever see it. Provident fund contributions go out every month, and for many people that is the only long-term saving they do. Now the markets […]
India Has Extended Its Electric Two-Wheeler Subsidy to 2028. Here Is What Changed.
A 10 August notification restored the electric two-wheeler subsidy ten days after it lapsed. Electric scooters and motorcycles now make up more than half of every electric vehicle registered in India. The central electric two-wheeler subsidy that holds their prices down expired on 31 July 2026. Then, on 10 August, the Ministry of Heavy Industries […]