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9 stories for “NSO” · January 2026
Clear filtersTamil Nadu's Anna Medal for Gallantry 2026 was awarded posthumously to Peter Johnson (who died saving two youths in the Thamirabharani river) and to firemen V. Sankar, S. Rameshkumar and P. Suresh for a flash-flood rescu...
The National Statistics Office is preparing two first-ever national surveys: a National Household Income Survey and an Annual Survey of Incorporated Service Sector Enterprises. The second will use the GSTN database to co...
A consortium led by Pixxel, with Piersight Space, SatSure and Dhruva Space, will build India's first privately owned Earth-observation satellite constellation with IN-SPACe under a public-private partnership. It plans 12...
The Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai confirmed the Northeast monsoon retreated from Tamil Nadu on 19 January 2026; Tamil Nadu recorded a winter rainfall surplus of 25.8 mm since 1 January, with Tiruttani at 15.2 C...
India ended its Consumer Price Index series with 2012 as the base year and will launch a new CPI series with 2024 as the base year; the NSO released the final December 2025 data under the old base, with the new series ef...
In January 2026, the Government of India introduced new measures to strengthen irrigation infrastructure as part of its broader agricultural development strategy. The initiative focuses on improving water management syst...
A SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition)-based reservoir management system for Chennai's reservoirs is ready for commissioning. The Rs 32-crore project, implemented by the Water Resources Department with World...
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...
Tamil Nadu's 2025 northeast monsoon (October-December) brought about 43 cm of rain against a normal of roughly 44 cm. That is slightly below normal and ends a six-year run of normal or surplus rainfall since 2019. Chenna...
