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A three-member committee chaired by Gagandeep Singh Bedi, with K.R. Shanmugam and Pratik Tayal as members, gave its final report on employee pensions to the Tamil Nadu government. It compared the Old Pension Scheme (for...
A rare Eastern Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca) was seen in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu during the winter migration season. This large eagle breeds in Central Asia and Eastern Europe...
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...
Divya Arul from Puducherry reached the summit of Mount Elbrus in Russia. At 5,642 metres, Elbrus is the highest peak in Europe and one of the Seven Summits, the tallest mountains on each continent. The climb is a notable...
The Centre notified the area around the Parvati-Arga Bird Sanctuary in Gonda district, Uttar Pradesh, as an Eco-Sensitive Zone under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986. The sanctuary covers about 1,084 hectares and h...
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...
Two Indian chess players, Koneru Humpy in the women's section and Arjun Erigaisi in the open section, each won a bronze medal at the FIDE World Rapid Chess Championships 2025 in Doha, Qatar. FIDE (Fédération Internationa...
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...
The Delhi government is working with IIT Kanpur on an Intelligent Grievance Monitoring System (IGMS). The system will bring several public grievance portals onto one dashboard and use artificial intelligence and machine...
DRDO carried out the first flight test of the Pinaka Long Range Guided Rocket, LRGR-120, at the Integrated Test Range in Chandipur, Odisha. The guided version extends the reach of the indigenous Pinaka multi-barrel rocke...
