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73 stories for “Act” · January 2026
Clear filtersKerala has introduced the Right to Disconnect Bill, 2025, for private-sector employees. It would let them ignore work calls, emails, messages and online meetings after working hours without facing any penalty or discipli...
The 50th meeting of PRAGATI (Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation), the PM's technology-enabled platform launched in 2015 to monitor infrastructure projects and public grievances, was held in New Delhi. Five c...
In the third round of approvals under the Electronics Components Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS), MeitY cleared 22 projects worth about ₹41,863 crore that are expected to create 34,061 jobs. Tamil Nadu gained the most: three...
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...
A new Tamil edition of From Volga to Ganga by scholar Rahul Sankrityayan (1893-1963) has been published. It is the seventh Tamil translation of the book. Theatre practitioner and teacher A. Mangai translated it, and Seer...
An exposition of the Piprahwa relics, believed to be linked to the remains of Lord Buddha, was held in Delhi. William Claxton Peppé found them in 1898 at Piprahwa in Uttar Pradesh, and most were placed in the Indian Muse...
The Bihar government approved a revised plan to develop the Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary into a tiger reserve. If the National Tiger Conservation Authority agrees, it will be Bihar's second tiger reserve after Valmiki Tiger...
The University of Madras (Amendment) Bill, which the Tamil Nadu Assembly passed in April 2022, came back without the President's assent. It wanted the State government, rather than the Governor as ex officio Chancellor,...
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...
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 Union Minister for Consumer Affairs released IS 19262:2025, a test code for electric agricultural tractors prepared by the Bureau of Indian Standards. It sets common tests for power take-off, drawbar power, belt and...
