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27 stories for “Ministry” · January 2026
Clear filtersThe Ministry of Transport proposed a unique Aadhaar-like identification system for electric-vehicle batteries. Under draft guidelines, each EV battery would get a 21-character Battery Pack Aadhaar Number (BPAN) from the...
The Centre announced a regional office of the National Turmeric Board and an accredited turmeric testing lab in Erode, a major turmeric market in Tamil Nadu. The Board is based in Nizamabad, Telangana, and comes under th...
The Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) launched 'Land Stack', a first-of-its-kind national digital land governance initiative - an integrated GIS-based digital platform for land and property records - on a pilot basis...
MoSPI will run India's first national survey of adult skills in 2026, at the request of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. It will use the Comprehensive Modular Survey framework and cover people aged...
The Ministry of AYUSH marked the 9th Siddha Day at Kalaivanar Arangam in Chennai on the theme 'Siddha for Global Health'. Siddha Day falls on 6 January each year, the birth anniversary of Sage Agathiyar, who is considere...
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment will fund a National Drug Use Survey for 2025-26, covering about 20 lakh people in every State and Union Territory. For the first time, it will record traditional and local...
Under Mission Mausam, the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology has built India's own automatic weather stations using 3D printing. The stations run on solar power and send live readings of temperature, wind, humidity...
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) introduced a new logo on the theme 'Data for Development'. It combines the Ashoka Chakra, the Rupee symbol and rising bars. MoSPI also introduced a mascot c...
The Union Ministry of Science and Technology has developed Path Gennie, free open-source software meant to speed up drug discovery. Because the code is open, researchers and start-ups can use and adapt it without licence...
National Test House (NTH), under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, signed an agreement with the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). NTH will be an empanelled laboratory that tests c...
The Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry said India registered more than 5.5 lakh domestic trademarks in 2024-25, the most in any single year. Online filing, faster examination and lower pendency helped. Pharmaceutica...
The Ministry of Jal Shakti released the Dynamic Groundwater Resource Assessment Report 2025. Annual recharge is about 448.52 billion cubic metres (BCM) and extraction about 247.22 BCM, so the stage of extraction is 60.63...
