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CAG audit finds gross irregularities in implementation of MGNREGA across Odisha

India, April 8 -- There have been gross irregularities in the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in Odisha, according to the recently released audit... Read More


Energy in times of war

India, April 8 -- The disastrous US-Israel war against Iran has disrupted energy supply across the world. Governments in both rich and poor countries are warning their people of dire times ahead, unli... Read More


More than half of Odisha's PVTG population missed out on welfare schemes, CAG finds

India, April 8 -- An audit by India's CAG reveals that 54% of Odisha's Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups, about 160,000 people, have been left out of key welfare schemes. Despite OPELIP's mandate... Read More


How the Artemis II crew trained to observe and photograph the moon: A NASA science team geologist explains

India, April 8 -- Artemis II has carried humans farther from Earth than ever before, completing a far-side lunar flyby. It has captured full-disk images from 6,545 kilometres above the surface. The ... Read More


Seizure of 2,000 ants at Nairobi airport highlights the hidden scale of insect trafficking

India, April 8 -- Kenya's recent ant seizures, including a 2026 attempt to smuggle over 2,000 garden ants and a 2025 case involving 5,000 ants, highlight how insects are increasingly targeted by traff... Read More


A mass human capital loss

India, April 8 -- Adult height across countries - including India - is not increasing; rather it has remained stagnant or has declined over decades. Should it raise an alarm? Many development experts ... Read More


Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 6, 2026)

India, April 7 -- Desilting of Punjab rivers The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on April 2, 2026, modified the interim order passed on February 11, 2026. It permitted the state of Punjab to take furth... Read More


Energy crisis forces India to revisit kerosene, a fuel it had nearly left behind

India, April 7 -- Amid geopolitical shocks and reduced LNG availability from West Asia, India has allowed a short-term return of PDS kerosene for household cooking and lighting in 21 states and Union ... Read More


CAG finds nearly half of Jammu and Kashmir's lakes have vanished since 1967, warns of ecological crisis

India, April 7 -- A CAG audit reveals a deepening ecological crisis in Jammu and Kashmir, where 315 of 697 lakes recorded in 1967 have disappeared. 203 lakes have shrunk, erasing thousands of hectare... Read More


Kalpakkam: India's indigenously developed atomic reactor attains criticality

India, April 7 -- India's indigenously developed atomic reactor, the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu, has achieved 'criticality', according to a statement by the Centr... Read More