Climate change: Much of India battered by severe heat waves; hottest ever March ever recorded in 122 years

Old pension scheme could make state budgets unsustainable: In the recent state budgets, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh said they will revert to the old pension scheme; Were this trend to continue, it would be fiscal "hara-kiri", said State Bank of India's Economic Research 

Electric buses: Tata Motors emerges lowest bidder for 5450 electric buses to be purchased by government entity, to be used ultimately by five Indian cities for public transport

Corruption in Karnataka: The anti corruption bureau (ACB) has been made weak and ineffective; As a unit of the state police, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) is not immune from political interference in postings, transfers, duration of tenures, etc., and lacks support from an independent authority like the Lokayukta

High level former bureaucrats flag communal hate concerns: Former bureaucrats including former national security advisor, former home secretary, former principal secretary to the PM, and over 100 other high ranking bureaucrats write to Prime Minister Modi flagging the rise in communal hate in India