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The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has approved lifetime validity for licences issued by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). Food businesses will no longer have to renew licences again...
Vairamuthu has been conferred the Jnanpith Award 2026, becoming the third Tamil writer to receive it and the first in 24 years. The earlier Tamil laureates were Akilan and Jayakanthan. Vairamuthu had won the Sahitya Akad...
The Union Government has introduced a Bill in Parliament to amend the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019.The amendment redefines "transgender person" and drops the provision for self-perceived gender id...
The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has received the 12th PSU National Award for Dhwani Spandana, its initiative to make bus travel accessible.Dhwani Spandana is an onboard system that enables visually...
The United States Trade Representative (USTR) has launched Section 301 investigations into the trade practices of major partners, including India, China and the European Union.The USTR also brings out the Special 301 Rep...
The Ministry of Panchayati Raj has started the "Say No to Proxy Sarpanch" campaign to end the 'Sarpanch Pati' practice, in which male relatives exercise power on behalf of elected women village heads.The drive seeks to s...
The Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology has found Iron Age cultural material during an exploration along the banks of the Pambai river. The survey covered several villages in Villupuram district, and remains were...
The Supreme Court has allowed the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, including clinically assisted nutrition, for Harish Rana, a 32-year-old man in a vegetative state since 2013. It is the first court-approved impl...
The Prime Minister of India has inaugurated India's first Ring Metro in Delhi. A ring metro is a circular rail corridor that loops around a city instead of running only from one end to another, allowing passengers to tra...
TIME magazine has named three leaders of Indian origin, Reshma Kewalramani, Reshma Saujani and Safeena Husain, among its 16 Women of the Year for 2026. The three were recognised for their global leadership and for contri...
India is set to construct its first riverine lighthouses, which will come up on the Brahmaputra River along National Waterway-2. Until now, India's lighthouses have stood along the sea coast to guide ships; these new str...
The Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford has handed back to India a 16th-century bronze idol of Saint Thirumankai Alvar.The idol originally belonged to the Shri Soundararaja Perumal Temple at Thadikombu in Tamil...
