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On January 9, 2026, comprehensive updates regarding the highly impactful Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thittam (Kalaignar Women's Rights Grant Scheme) were prominently highlighted by the Tamil Nadu government. This flagship w...
Telangana now has India's first commercial rainbow trout farm in a tropical climate. The Smart Green Aquaculture Farm and Research Institute is at Kandukur mandal in Ranga Reddy district. Rainbow trout normally grows onl...
Two pilot credit schemes were launched under Niryat Protsahan, the financial-support arm of the Export Promotion Mission. The Interest Subvention Scheme gives eligible exporters 2.75% support on rupee export loans. The C...
Andhra Pradesh emerged as India's top investment destination in FY26, securing 25.3% of total proposed investments in the first nine months, per a Bank of Baroda report. Odisha ranked second (13.1%) and Maharashtra third...
The RBI published its Financial Stability Report on 2 January 2026. The report comes out twice a year with inputs from a sub-committee of the Financial Stability and Development Council. It found India's government debt...
From 1 February 2026, the Centre replaced the GST Compensation Cess on tobacco and pan masala with two new levies. Tobacco products will carry an Additional Excise Duty, and pan masala will carry a Health and National Se...
Bulgaria switched from its national currency, the lev, to the euro and became the 21st country in the Eurozone. It joined the European Union nearly 20 years ago. The euro is now used by more than 350 million people in Eu...
The Centre launched the Market Access Support (MAS) intervention to help Indian exporters reach foreign markets. It sits under the NIRYAT DISHA sub-scheme of the Export Promotion Mission and mainly targets MSMEs and firs...
For the first time, India has overtaken China in rice production. India produced about 152 million metric tonnes against China's 146 million, and now accounts for more than 28% of the world's rice. India has nearly 60,00...
India's Index of Industrial Production (IIP) grew 6.7% in November 2025, the fastest rise in 25 months. Only October 2023, at 11.9%, was higher. Infrastructure and construction goods rose 12.1%. Consumer durables grew 10...
The Reserve Bank of India published its Trend and Progress of Banking in India report. It says bad loans of banks (gross NPAs) fell to a 13-year low of 2.7% in March 2024 and then to 2.5% by September 2024. Return on ass...
The RBI has started reviewing its Scale-Based Regulation (SBR) framework for non-banking financial companies. SBR, in place since 2022, places NBFCs in four tiers, the Base, Middle, Upper and Top layers, by their size an...
