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.
Earlier coverage
- India and France adopt Innovation Roadmap 2030 during Modi visit
- India lodges 'strong protest' with US after three mariners die in tanker strike
- Monsoon sweeps into Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, IMD says
- RBI weighs rates as weak monsoon forecast clouds India's outlook
- At least 21 killed in fire at New Delhi building housing hotel
- India's seafood exports hit record $8.46 billion despite headwinds
- India–Oman trade pact takes effect, cutting duties on most imports
- More than 100 dead in southern India heatwave as power demand hits record
- Rupee hits record low near 96 to the dollar as RBI rate hike looks increasingly likely
- India finalises ₹3.25 lakh crore deal for 114 Rafale fighters from Dassault
- Maharashtra raises onion procurement price to ₹15/kg as Mumbai supply tightens
- Delhi swelters at 47C as yellow heat alert lifts to orange and dust storms gust at 60 km/h
- India recovers 11th-century Chola copper plates held in the Netherlands
- Modi warns of a "decade of disasters" during Netherlands leg of five-nation tour
- Death toll from Uttar Pradesh thunderstorms climbs to 111
- Mumbai swelters as temperatures approach 42°C and gold rates surge on new import duty
- Tamil Nadu CM Vijay wins trust vote 144-22 as AIADMK splits on assembly floor
- Modi urges Indians to curb fuel and gold as Iran war strains foreign reserves
- Vijay's TVK clears 118-seat threshold as Congress, Left and VCK back government in Chennai
- Sensex sheds 439 points as crude and Hormuz tensions hit banking and auto names
- BJP-led alliance sweeps Assam state polls with 102 of 126 seats
- Delhi notches its hottest day of the year as heatwave grips north India