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Clear filtersMadurai is set to become a twin city of Camberley, a town in the United Kingdom. Twinning is a long-term partnership between cities in different countries. This one covers education and research, culture and heritage, to...
Karnataka has started VijAIpatha, a pilot programme to teach artificial intelligence, STEM, robotics and coding to students in government schools. In the first phase, five advanced AI, STEM and robotics labs are being bu...
For the first time, India has overtaken China in rice production. India produced about 152 million metric tonnes against China's 146 million, and now accounts for more than 28% of the world's rice. India has nearly 60,00...
India's Index of Industrial Production (IIP) grew 6.7% in November 2025, the fastest rise in 25 months. Only October 2023, at 11.9%, was higher. Infrastructure and construction goods rose 12.1%. Consumer durables grew 10...
Celebrations for 100 years of the Ol Chiki script were held in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. Ol Chiki is used to write Santhali, a language listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, and its creator, Pandit Raghunath Mu...
The Bihar government approved a revised plan to develop the Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary into a tiger reserve. If the National Tiger Conservation Authority agrees, it will be Bihar's second tiger reserve after Valmiki Tiger...
The University of Madras (Amendment) Bill, which the Tamil Nadu Assembly passed in April 2022, came back without the President's assent. It wanted the State government, rather than the Governor as ex officio Chancellor,...
A three-member committee chaired by Gagandeep Singh Bedi, with K.R. Shanmugam and Pratik Tayal as members, gave its final report on employee pensions to the Tamil Nadu government. It compared the Old Pension Scheme (for...
A rare Eastern Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca) was seen in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu during the winter migration season. This large eagle breeds in Central Asia and Eastern Europe...
The Reserve Bank of India published its Trend and Progress of Banking in India report. It says bad loans of banks (gross NPAs) fell to a 13-year low of 2.7% in March 2024 and then to 2.5% by September 2024. Return on ass...
The RBI has started reviewing its Scale-Based Regulation (SBR) framework for non-banking financial companies. SBR, in place since 2022, places NBFCs in four tiers, the Base, Middle, Upper and Top layers, by their size an...
Divya Arul from Puducherry reached the summit of Mount Elbrus in Russia. At 5,642 metres, Elbrus is the highest peak in Europe and one of the Seven Summits, the tallest mountains on each continent. The climb is a notable...
