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New Delhi hosted the first-ever Home Ministers' Meeting of BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation), which ended with the adoption of the Delhi Declaration 2026. The groupi...
Anne Carson, the Canadian writer, has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. The honour recognises her inventive writing, which shapes fresh forms of contemporary literature by engaging in a conversation with c...
The Madras High Court has ruled that defaulting on a bank loan is not, on its own, a ground to stop someone from going abroad when no criminal charge exists against that person. The Court said travel abroad is a fundamen...
The Status of Policing in India Report (SPIR) 2026, brought out jointly by Lokniti–CSDS (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies) and Common Cause, draws on a survey of 8,306 citizens in 16 States, with a focus on c...
New Delhi was the venue for the 11th meeting of the BIMSTEC Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (JWG-CTTC), hosted by India. Talks centred on joint action against cross-border crimes such as...
Sagarmala Finance Corporation Limited (SMFCL) is preparing to float India's first-ever blue bond, with the proceeds going to sustainable port, shipping and ocean-economy ventures. SMFCL is the country's first Non-Banking...
A new global drought resilience architecture was unveiled at UNCCD COP17. It includes the world's first Drought Resilience Index (DRI), which measures a country's ability to anticipate, prepare for and withstand droughts...
Tamil Nadu unveiled the Annapoorani Super Six Scheme in the State Assembly on August 24, 2026, to be launched on Pongal Day in January 2027. Eligible households will be reimbursed for domestic Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LP...
Chandigarh and Dadra & Nagar Haveli have become the first Union Territories to deliver food subsidy to eligible beneficiaries through Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)-based Direct Benefit Transfer. Money is credited...
IntroductionIn a major electoral transparency ruling to curb illicit money power in democratic elections, a Supreme Court Bench authored by Justice Sanjay Karol on 18 August 2026 ruled that all electoral FIR investigatio...
The National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) disbursed ₹8.22 crore to three research institutions and 33 State Biodiversity Boards and UT Biodiversity Councils, one of the largest single access and benefit-sharing (ABS) rel...
India and the Maldives have launched the Favara–Unified Payments Interface (UPI) cross-border payment corridor, enabling money to be transferred between the two countries in real time.The corridor links the Maldives' Fav...
