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NITI Aayog Just Mapped Viksit Bharat 2047 and Your Future Sits in 4 Pillars
On June 11, PM Modi chaired NITI Aayog 11th Governing Council and unveiled an Inclusive Human Development Framework for Viksit Bharat 2047 built on four pillars. Here is what it actually means for your jobs, skills and future.

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Jun 113 min read


India Immigration Rules Just Changed and Foreign Travel Plans Hit a 180-Day Wall
India just rewrote its immigration rulebook. Foreigners now register before 180 days, late entry is emergencies-only, and appeals go online. Here is the breakdown.

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Jun 93 min read


Bengal SIR Just Deleted 91 Lakh Voters and TMC Says It Cost Them 31 Seats
Bengal SIR deleted 91 lakh voters from West Bengal electoral rolls before the 2026 Assembly election. TMC told the Supreme Court the deletions exceeded BJP's win margin in 31 seats. Here is what the data actually shows.

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May 193 min read


France Just Said No on Rafale Source Codes and India's 40 Billion Dollar Deal Just Got Messy
France has refused to share the Rafale source codes India needs for its 114 jet deal, throwing the 40 billion dollar negotiation into a serious crisis. Without code access, India cannot independently fit indigenous weapons on the fleet. Here is why this fight is bigger than fighter jets.

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May 183 min read


Satyajit Ray in Colour at DAG Delhi Is the Most Personal Indian Art Show of 2026
Satyajit Ray in Colour just opened at DAG New Delhi with 127 photographs by his longtime shadow Nemai Ghosh. The show captures Ray off duty, in process, and in colour for the first time. It is the most quietly powerful Indian art exhibition of 2026.

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May 183 min read


BJP Just Won Assam With 82 Seats and Gaurav Gogoi's Jorhat Loss Says It All
Assam election results 2026 just handed BJP 82 seats and pushed Congress to a humiliating 19. Himanta Biswa Sarma took oath for a second consecutive term. Gaurav Gogoi lost his own Jorhat seat. Here is what the numbers actually say.

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May 173 min read


Navjot Altaf Waste Archives Just Turned Mumbai CSMVS Into India's Most Necessary 2026 Art Show
Navjot Altaf Waste Archives as Landscape just opened at CSMVS Mumbai and it is the most necessary Indian art exhibition of 2026. The Bhopal-born artist turns industrial debris and Adivasi memory into a slow, political, ecological argument that no Indian museum has dared to host this directly.

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May 163 min read


This Week on DesiDodo: Power, Pixels and Playlists
This week on DesiDodo we tracked the BJP sweep in Haryana, Sarvam AI's 300 million dollar raise that shook the AI race, and Shreya Ghoshal's reign as Gen Z's reels queen. Three stories. One India in fast forward.

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May 163 min read


BRICS Foreign Ministers in India as Iran War Tests the Bloc
BRICS foreign ministers met in India in May as the Iran war and a Hormuz blockade split the bloc. Jaishankar's chair's statement could not paper over the gap. Can India's neutral act hold through September's full summit?

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May 163 min read


BJP Just Swept Haryana Mayoral Elections 2026 and Congress Has No Excuses Left
BJP just swept the Haryana mayoral elections 2026, taking Panchkula, Ambala, Sonipat, and Rewari on May 13. Akshita Saini won Ambala by 21,358 votes. Shyam Lal Bansal walked Panchkula. Congress was nowhere close.

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May 153 min read


MGNREGA Is Being Replaced From July 1 and Rural India Has 125 Days to Reckon With It
MGNREGA is repealed from July 1 as the VB-G RAM G Act takes over across rural India. The guarantee jumps from 100 to 125 days a year, backed by a record Rs 95,692 crore budget. Here's what actually changes on the ground.

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May 133 min read


All Living Souls Is the Indian Art Exhibition 2026 Delhi Needed
The All Living Souls show at India Habitat Centre is the Indian art exhibition 2026 nobody saw coming. Jatin Das, Neville Tuli, and the Tuli Research Centre brought craft, culture, and desi creative heritage into one honest Delhi room.

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May 123 min read


Somnath's First Kumbhabhishekam in 75 Years Just Made Every Indian Feel It
PM Modi performed Somnath Temple's first Kumbhabhishekam in 75 years on May 11 2026. The ceremony marked India's reconstruction of the first Jyotirlinga after Independence. Here is what the day meant and why it echoed beyond Gujarat.

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May 113 min read


India Is Building 34 km of Road Every Day and the Viksit Bharat Plan Is for Real
India is building 34 km of national highway every single day in 2026. Budget 2026 has backed the Viksit Bharat infrastructure plan with Rs 12.2 lakh crore in capital expenditure. Here is what that number actually means for the country and for you.

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May 103 min read


Vande Mataram Now Has the Same Power as Jana Gana Mana and India Is Divided
The Union Cabinet has given Vande Mataram the same legal protection as Jana Gana Mana. Insult it and risk three years in jail. India is split on whether this was the right move after BJP's historic Bengal victory.

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May 104 min read


India Changed Its DP for Operation Sindoor and Gen Z Made It a Cultural Moment
India changed its DP for Operation Sindoor's anniversary and Gen Z turned it into something more. Here is what the social media moment reveals about how this generation handles national memory.

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May 83 min read


Operation Sindoor Turns One: How Bharat Rewrote Its Security Playbook
One year after the 22-minute strike, India marks a changed security doctrine. Operation Sindoor ended in a ceasefire but started a new chapter in South Asian deterrence that the world is still processing.

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May 83 min read


Kerala Voted Out the Left and India Has No Communist Government for the First Time in 50 Years
Congress-led UDF swept Kerala's 2026 assembly election with 102 seats, ending a decade of Left rule. India now has no communist government in power for the first time in 50 years. Here is what the political map looks like after the biggest upset of the 2026 election season.

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May 73 min read


Vijay's TVK Just Won 108 Seats on Debut and Tamil Nadu Politics Will Never Look the Same
Actor Vijay's TVK just walked into Tamil Nadu politics like it owned the place and now it might actually run it. The debut party won 108 seats in a hung house, becoming the single largest party overnight. This is what Kollywood crossing into politics actually looks like.

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May 53 min read


BJP Just Won West Bengal With 207 Seats and Ended 15 Years of TMC Rule
BJP won West Bengal's 2026 Assembly election with 207 seats, per the Election Commission of India, ending 15 years of TMC rule. Mamata Banerjee lost her own Bhabanipur seat to Suvendu Adhikari by 15,105 votes.

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May 53 min read
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