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What began as a targeted crackdown on three beloved biryani chains in Hyderabad has snowballed into one of the most significant tax evasion investigations in India’s food and beverage sector — exposing a ₹70,000 crore suppressed turnover racket spanning over 1.7 lakh restaurants across the country, dating back to the financial year 2019-20.
They went through approximately 60 Terabytes of Billing Data extracted from a leading restaurant billing software. Which made the case — a landmark in AI-driven tax enforcement, demonstrating how generative artificial intelligence and big data analytics can uncover systemic fraud hidden beneath layers of routine restaurant billing.

On February 22, Indian security forces successfully wrapped up Operation Trashi-I with a significant counter-terrorism victory in the Chenab Valley. They managed to neutralise the entire seven-member of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorist squad that had been operating in the rugged high-altitude terrain of the Kishtwar district. The 326-day-long military operation, underlining the Indian Army’s competence in intelligence-based counter-insurgency especially in harsh geographical conditions, has become a landmark in the history of Indian military.

The Delhi Police Special Cell has dismantled a terror module that was planning to carry out a series of high-intensity attacks throughout India. The arrested group was Pakistan- backed and officials confirmed the arrest of 8 individual, including 7 Bangladeshi nationals and 1 Indian, that resulted from a coordinated multi-state operation was busted by Delhi Police Special Cell. Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were the main supporters of the group, which was believed to be in the final stages of planning IED (Improvised Explosive Device) attacks.

BJP MLA Krishna Paswan has publicly blamed local infrastructure development for an incident that will infuriate the residents of the Khaga constituency in the Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh. Krishna Paswan’s surprise quality inspection of the newly constructed road, which was shared uncontrolled on social media, revealed a road surface so delicate that it has caused waves of “thin crust pizza” comparisons on the internet.

Once the undisputed leader of India’s electric two-wheeler market, Ola Electric has drastically shrunk its retail footprint. As per reports and shareholder communications, the company intends to close down another 150 stores by the end of March 2026, reducing the total number of stores to around 550. This is a sharp deviation from the time when the company was aggressively expanding and claimed a network of nearly 4,000 stores across the country just over a year ago.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) identified 32 fake universities spread across 12 Indian states that have been operating without any legal authority. Delhi leads the pack with 12 such institutions, raising serious questions about how these entities continue functioning right under the nose of regulatory authorities.

The national capital Delhi is on high alert as intelligence agencies have received credible threat information suggesting that terror groups may target prominent religious and heritage sites including the historic Red Fort and Chandni Chowk area.
Law enforcement agencies have greatly increased security measures throughout the city today, February 21, 2026, in a bid to stop any potential attack.

In a historic decision, a special POCSO court in Banda, Uttar Pradesh has handed down a death sentence to Ram Bhavan, a 50-year-old former government junior engineer, and Durgawati, 47-year-old, for the sexual abuse of 33 minor boys over a span of 10 years. The judge stated that this case is at the extreme “rarest of rare” level because of the mass scale of sexual assaults and the severe physical and psychological trauma of the child survivors that have been caused.

A 3.5-Year-Old Girl has been allegedly raped and strangled to death in Gurgaon in a horrifying incident. The police have arrested a 25-year-old neighbour into custody, who has reportedly confessed to the heinous crime. The Gurgaon Police have registered a case under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

A candidate who scored just 9 out of 800 in NEET-PG 2025-26 Entrance Examination has been given a postgraduate medical seat which has stirred up quite a controversy in the medical field. The admission was done in the third round of counselling for private medical colleges under the management quota, indicating a major decline in the qualifying standards to fill thousands of vacant seats across India. there were around 21 Doctors who scored less than 100 marks and were given PG seats under the management quota in the same round.