Most Children Take Something That Is Not Theirs. Very Few Have Kleptomania
The condition affects well under one percent of people, and kleptomania in children looks nothing like a child bringing home a classmate’s pencil. A pencil case comes home from school and it is not the one that left. The explanation is vague. A friend gave it. Most parents have had some version of this moment, […]
India Spent a Decade Making the B.Ed Longer. Next Year It Gets Shorter Again
NCTE will offer a one-year B.Ed from the coming session, though a Supreme Court-appointed commission had asked for the longer course. Anyone who wants to teach in an Indian school needs a teaching degree. For the past decade that degree has taken two years. From the coming session, though, a one-year B.Ed becomes possible again. […]
Two Villages Lost Dozens of People to Police Firing for Raising a Flag. Both Waited Decades for Recognition
Tarapur in Bihar and Eram in Odisha saw two of the largest police firings of the freedom movement, yet neither is widely known today. Every August the same few places return in the retelling of India’s freedom struggle. Jallianwala Bagh, the Red Fort, Sabarmati. Tarapur and Eram lost more people to police bullets than almost […]
Two Wards in Alappuzha Cut Mosquito Breeding Sharply. Here Is What the Numbers Actually Show
An ICMR study recorded large falls in Aedes breeding after residents organised the work, though the figure now being quoted describes one ward. Mosquito control usually arrives from outside, as a fogging machine or a health worker with a checklist. In two wards of Alappuzha in Kerala, researchers tried the opposite. They asked residents to […]
Women Are Now Half of India’s Higher Education. In Engineering They Are Still About a Third
The new AISHE reports put the female share of STEM enrolment at 44 percent, though science carries that figure, not engineering. India released two years of higher education data in July, covering 2022-23 and 2023-24. The headline finding was that women now make up close to half of all enrolment. A second figure, on women […]
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 […]
Telangana Has India’s First FIFA Academy for Girls, But Nobody Publishes How Many Girls Play
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, Telangana won its first national trophy in the girls’ game. Both sit in the federation’s […]
Women Forgotten by Art History: The Artists We Were Never Taught About
Walk into a museum and look at the names beside the paintings. You will find masters whose names have survived for centuries. You will find movements built around their work, books written about them and paintings that have become cultural landmarks. But there is another story hiding in the same history. It is the story […]