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315 stories for “Act” · August 2026
Clear filtersThe Tamil Nadu Government has instituted the Inaiya Tamil Chemmal Award to honour Tamil scholars and activists who promote and develop the language through websites, digital platforms and online research. It recognises w...
India received $30.7 billion in gross Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in April-June 2026, the highest in at least 15 years, nearly 46% above the previous quarter and about 15% above April-June 2025. Net FDI for the quart...
Tamil Nadu has amended its law to safeguard government appointments made over the past 15 years under the Persons Studied in Tamil Medium (PSTM) quota. The 2010 law reserves 20% of direct recruitment vacancies for candid...
Tamil Nadu announced new industrial parks and worker accommodation in the State Assembly. ₹130 crore will fund housing for over 2,500 workers at the SIPCOT Industrial Park, Gangaikondan. A 2,570-acre clean and renewable...
Tamil Nadu will create the Tamil Nadu Mineral Resources Development Corporation Limited, a new Public Sector Undertaking under the Companies Act, 2013, to handle mining, extraction, quality upgrading, import, value addit...
The Union Environment Ministry (MoEFCC) has urged the National Green Tribunal to direct Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to submit annual conservation plans for Neelakurinji (Strobilanthes kunthiana), a Western Ghats end...
The BRICS Sports Ministers' Meeting in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, ended with the BRICS Sports Joint Declaration adopted by consensus under India's BRICS Chairship 2026. The agenda covered youth development, inclusion...
Under its BRICS Presidency, India hosted the 8th BRICS Working Group on Ocean and Polar Science and Technology (OPST) in Goa. The Ministry of Earth Sciences organised the meeting, hosted by the National Centre for Polar...
At the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) COP17 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, India urged a shift in global drought policy from reacting to crises towards proactive, technology-based resilience. It called for st...
For the first time, Census 2027 will not count beggars and vagrants as a separate category; they will be grouped under 'others' within non-economic activity. In Census 2011 only about 3.8 lakh people declared themselves...
India's solar photovoltaic module manufacturing capacity has reached 100 GW, up from 2.3 GW in 2014, while cell capacity stood at 25 GW and wafer capacity about 2 GW by March 2025. Import dependence is still close to 100...
The Unified Payments Interface (UPI), launched in 2016 by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), completed 10 years on 25 August 2026. Annual transactions grew from 1.78 crore in FY 2016-17 to more than 24,16...
