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,
The state now has a national trophy and a residential academy, yet Telangana girls football still has no public count of players. India’s first FIFA Talent Academy for girls opened in Hyderabad in June 2026. A few months before that,
India’s victory over England in the one-off Test in July 2026 was not just a large margin. It was a young side proving it can win the longest format away from home. Indian women’s cricket has spent much of the
The Aichi-Nagoya Games run on an unusual five-cluster format with no single athletes’ village. India’s planning has been shaped as much by logistics as by training. Every Asian Games cycle produces a familiar conversation about medal targets. The 2026 edition
CBSE Class 10 ran twice in 2026 for the first time, with the better score counting. The early evidence suggests the change works best when families treat the second attempt as optional. For decades, a single set of Class 10
A new national initiative asks gram panchayats to plan water the way they plan money. It draws on a decade of evidence that community-led groundwater management works. Most Indian villages know precisely how much money they have. Far fewer know
Assam flooded while running a rainfall shortfall. Kerala saw landslides. Across the country, the season has swung between drought and downpour, and scientists say that pattern is the story. A monsoon that delivers less rain than normal and floods anyway
ISRO is working towards the uncrewed G1 mission, with a humanoid named Vyommitra in the crew seat. The shifting timeline says more about human spaceflight than about the programme. India’s human spaceflight programme has spent 2026 in a phase that
With the four labour codes now operational and central rules notified, delivery riders and cab drivers are formally recognised workers. What that recognition delivers is still being built. For most of the last decade, India’s app-based workforce existed in a
