The target was genuinely met, which is rare enough to say plainly. The threshold behind it is what deserves the scrutiny. From the ramparts of the Red Fort on 15 August 2026, the 80th Independence Day, the Prime Minister said
They won Rs 1 lakh from a state scheme and have sold fifteen units. Both halves of that sentence matter. Pritam Suthar had to explain himself. He is one of four students at Aarohi Model Senior Secondary School, a government
The name promises something the document does not deliver. Four doors stay shut, and one of them is farmland. The phone call tends to come after a death. Somebody abroad has inherited a share of the family land in India,
Delhi-NCR has logged 1,349 H1N1 cases. The thermometer is the least useful thing in the room. Every Indian household has a thermometer and almost nobody has been told how little it tells you. Dr Shravan Krishna Reddy, a paediatrician, neonatologist
The Operation Sindoor deepfake wave worked by putting synthetic audio over genuine footage. Once you know that, you can catch it on a phone in about a minute. Somebody took a real clip of Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri at a
He came to trace his mother’s childhood and never left. “I think people are inspired by me because I’m not from India,” he says, which is the uncomfortable part. Caron Rawnsley is Irish, eighty years old, and has spent years
Hiring intent surveys measure what employers plan. The Periodic Labour Force Survey measures what happened. For April to June, they disagree. Somebody publishes a report every quarter saying the India job market is turning a corner. Every quarter it gets
Every report covered the bigger number. The smaller one is the only figure a small business owner can actually insist on. Walk into a branch, run a registered small business, and ask for a collateral free loan of eighteen lakh
The medal was secured in the quarter-final, a day before they played the semi. Fifteen years is the number that should bother Indian badminton. India won a women’s doubles medal at the Badminton World Championships in 2011. Then it won
The clip is AI-generated. The more useful question is why a fake with no living subject is so much harder to kill than one showing a serving minister. The Nehru AI video runs ten seconds. It shows Jawaharlal Nehru speaking
