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A UAV-based survey by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) and the Tamil Nadu Forest Department has estimated 270 dugongs in Tamil Nadu waters: 158 in Palk Bay and 112 in the Gulf of Mannar, now India's largest viable d...
The 16th Finance Commission, chaired by Arvind Panagariya, kept the States' share of the divisible pool at 41% for 2026-27 to 2030-31. The Commission is a constitutional body under Article 280. Its main innovation is a n...
From April 1, 2026, Tamil Nadu's portion of the net shareable Central tax pool will be 4.097% under the 16th Finance Commission, a slight gain of 0.44% over the 4.079% allotted by the 15th Commission. Budgeted receipts f...
An RBI report on State finances found that Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry have steadily lowered their debt-to-GSDP ratios by up to 4 percentage points since 2021 without cutting development spendin...
Data from the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) shows India now counts 958 million active internet users. Rural India accounts for 57% of them, roughly 548 million people, and rural usage is expanding near...
India's 16th Census will run in two phases: Houselisting and Housing Census from April to September 2026, and Population Enumeration in February 2027 (September 2027 in snow-bound areas of Ladakh, J&K, Himachal Pradesh a...
The Gandak River in Bihar became India's second-largest gharial habitat after the Chambal. Adult gharials rose from 54 (2015) to over 400 (2025), with the total population crossing 1,000; about 944 were released into a 3...
The Environment Ministry launched India's second nationwide dolphin count from Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, under Project Dolphin. The Wildlife Institute of India leads it with state forest departments, WWF-India, Aaranyak and...
The schedule for Census 2027 was announced. The first phase, House Listing Operations, will run from 1 April to 30 September 2026 across all States and UTs, with a self-enumeration facility available 15 days before house...
The Tamil Nadu Forest Department announced the first phase of the All-India Tiger Estimation (AITE) 2026, part of the world's largest wildlife monitoring exercise conducted every four years by the National Tiger Conserva...
OverviewA concerning outbreak of Legionnaires' disease has prompted health authorities in Australia to issue urgent public health alerts. This severe form of pneumonia poses significant risks to vulnerable populations an...
Overview In a landmark demonstration of the Zero FIR mechanism, the West Bengal Police registered a First Information Report (FIR) at Suti police station in Murshidabad district for a crime that occurred in Sambalpur, Od...
