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India's new GDP series made the economy ₹8.6 lakh crore smaller. To get there it moved ₹34.5 lakh crore between industries

MoSPI's back series isn't due until December 2026, so until then the ministry's own API serves two accounts of 2025-26 side by side. The gap between them is not one number going down. It is four large numbers going in opposite directions.

India's disaster deaths more than doubled last year. One state is 62% of the total, and the ministry's own table does not add up

A written reply laid before the Lok Sabha on Tuesday puts hydro-meteorological deaths at 6,631. Six columns fail to reconcile with their own state rows, and Uttar Pradesh reports a 47-fold rise.

India Climbs to Its Highest-Ever Rank on the UN's 2026 SDG Index

India rose to 94th of 167 countries on the 2026 UN Sustainable Development Report, its best position yet and an 18-place climb since 2015 — even as the report cautions that only about a third of its targets are on track for 2030.

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