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Surat in Gujarat is close to becoming India's first fully slum-free city. The Surat Municipal Corporation rebuilt slum areas in place with permanent housing, mainly through the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, and moved thous...
A new Tamil edition of From Volga to Ganga by scholar Rahul Sankrityayan (1893-1963) has been published. It is the seventh Tamil translation of the book. Theatre practitioner and teacher A. Mangai translated it, and Seer...
Venture Intelligence data shows that private equity and venture capital firms put about $3,513 million into Tamil Nadu-based companies in 2025, across 61 deals. That is 20% more by value than in 2024. Funding fell sharpl...
A site at Sorgapallam, also called Sembodai, near Gangaikonda Cholapuram in Ariyalur district has been identified as the memorial of Nathamunigal, the first Acharya of Sri Vaishnavism. His idol and an idol of Srinivasa P...
The Centre launched the Market Access Support (MAS) intervention to help Indian exporters reach foreign markets. It sits under the NIRYAT DISHA sub-scheme of the Export Promotion Mission and mainly targets MSMEs and firs...
Kaamya Karthikeyan, an 18-year-old mountaineer from Mumbai, skied to the South Pole. She is the youngest Indian to do so and the second-youngest woman in the world. Kaamya is already known for climbing the highest peaks...
NTCA data shows that 166 tigers died in India in 2025, 40 more than the 126 deaths in 2024. It is the highest yearly toll since Project Tiger started in 1973. Madhya Pradesh had the most deaths (55), followed by Maharash...
On 1 January 2026, Assam became the first state to constitute its 8th State Pay Commission. Former Chief Secretary Subhas Das is the chairman. The commission will review the pay, allowances and pensions of state governme...
The Theosophical Society held its 150th international convention at its headquarters in Adyar, Chennai, on the theme 'One World, One Life: The Spirit of New Humanity'. Helena Blavatsky and Colonel H.S. Olcott founded the...
An exposition of the Piprahwa relics, believed to be linked to the remains of Lord Buddha, was held in Delhi. William Claxton Peppé found them in 1898 at Piprahwa in Uttar Pradesh, and most were placed in the Indian Muse...
The Union Ministry of Science and Technology has developed Path Gennie, free open-source software meant to speed up drug discovery. Because the code is open, researchers and start-ups can use and adapt it without licence...
Madurai 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...
