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375 stories for “Current” · February 2026
Clear filtersIndia and the World Bank Group unveiled a New Country Partnership Framework for 2026-2031 aligned with the Viksit Bharat goal. It envisages annual financing of roughly $8-10 billion over five years. Priority sectors incl...
Rajasthan is India's top wool producer at 16,013.50 thousand kg, or 47.53% of national output, mostly from Marwari and Chokla breeds used for carpets, rugs and blankets. Jammu and Kashmir follows with 7,770 thousand kg o...
India has contributed $35.18 million to the United Nations Regular Budget for 2026, earning a place on the 'honour roll' of 51 member states that paid their assessments fully and on time. The General Assembly approved a...
Goa has become the second Indian State, after Kerala, to bring out a state-level Bird Atlas, released at the 9th Bird Festival of Goa in Valpoi. Using grid-based surveys, the atlas maps bird distribution and allows chang...
The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade has formally defined a deep tech startup as one building solutions on new scientific or engineering knowledge, spending most of its funds on R&D, creating signi...
The Government has finished setting up 10,000 Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) under the central sector scheme launched on 29 February 2020 to help small and marginal farmers pool production, marketing and processing...
Andhra Pradesh is set to formally launch the Amaravati Quantum Valley (AQV) project to establish the State as a global centre for quantum research, innovation and talent. It will connect academic research with industrial...
The highly esteemed Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology is currently conducting vastly extensive, scientifically rigorous archaeological excavations across eight major historical sites throughout the ongoing 2025-...
Throughout the early months of 2026, the Tamil Nadu School Education Department's highly dedicated, specialized reading initiative, widely known as 'Vasippu Iyakkam' (The Reading Movement), recorded truly phenomenal, unp...
The Environment Ministry notified the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026 under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, replacing the 2016 rules from 1 April 2026 for both urban and rural local bodies. Waste must be separ...
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation launched PAIMANA (Project Assessment, Infrastructure Monitoring and Analytics for Nation-building), a web platform for tracking Central Sector infrastructure projec...
Kerala announced a separate Elderly Budget for FY27, the first Indian State to do so. It earmarks Rs 46,236.52 crore, roughly 19.07% of the State Budget, bringing together spending on pensions, healthcare, social securit...
