PIB Current Affairs 8 September 2026

Polity & GovernanceLowquizQuiz

Ladakh Lt Governor given additional charge of Jammu and Kashmir

•The President appointed Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena, Lt. Governor of Ladakh, to discharge the functions of the Lt. Governor of Jammu and Kashmir in addition to his own duties.
•The arrangement covers the period of leave of Shri Manoj Sinha, Lt. Governor of Jammu and Kashmir.
•Union Territories are administered by the President through an administrator appointed by him under Article 239, which is the source of this power.

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Coal Ministry launches first sector-wide CSR framework; 1,050 transplants under TBSY

•Union Minister of Coal and Mines Shri G. Kishan Reddy launched the Comprehensive CSR Framework for Indian Coal Companies — the first sector-specific CSR framework since statutory CSR began under the Companies Act, 2013.
•The framework was prepared by the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs and is meant to make CSR in coal mining areas outcome-oriented.
•Coal India Limited's Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojana has completed more than 1,050 bone marrow transplants, with up to Rs. 10 lakh per patient paid directly to empanelled hospitals against a Rs. 130 crore outlay across four phases.

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NCSC issues notice to Punjab Government, seeks report within five days

•The National Commission for Scheduled Castes issued notices to the Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police, Government of Punjab, over the death of Gulzar Singh, a resident of Sangrur district.
•The Commission ordered the inquiry in exercise of its powers under Article 338 of the Constitution and directed that the facts and an action-taken report be submitted within five days of receipt of the notice.
•NCSC Chairman Shri Kishor Makwana announced that he would visit Sangrur on 10 September 2026 to examine the matter.

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MoSPI launches QPR portal on data harmonisation for administrative data use

•MoSPI held a workshop of Statistical Advisers and Chief Data Officers of all Central Ministries, Departments and Organisations on 8 September 2026 in New Delhi, themed 'Data Harmonisation for Use of Administrative Data in Data Driven Governance'.
•Shri Shaktikanta Das, Principal Secretary-2 to the Prime Minister, launched the Quarterly Progress Report (QPR) portal on data harmonisation at qpr.mospi.gov.in.
•The portal lets ministries report dataset cataloguing, metadata preparation, use of common unique identifiers and quality checks under the Statistical Quality Assurance Framework, with automated validation and cross-verification against NMDS.

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Polity & GovernanceMediumquizQuiz

President appoints five judges to Chhattisgarh and Gauhati High Courts

•The President, in consultation with the Chief Justice of India, appointed three Judicial Officers — Santosh Sharma, Sushma Sawant and Sudhir Kumar — as Judges of the Chhattisgarh High Court.
•Advocate Nchumbemo Mozhui and Judicial Officer Helen Dawngliani were appointed Additional Judges of the Gauhati High Court.
•Judges of a High Court are appointed under Article 217; Additional Judges are appointed under Article 224 for a term not exceeding two years.

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InternationalMediumquizQuiz

WHO South-East Asia Region adopts Dili Declaration; India wins two SEARO awards

•Health Ministers of the WHO South-East Asia Region adopted the Dili Declaration on Human Resources for Health: Equity in Specialized Care at the 79th Session of the Regional Committee (RC79) held in Timor-Leste.
•India told the ministerial roundtable that medical colleges have risen from 387 to 858 since 2014 (up 121.71%), MBBS seats from 51,348 to 1,42,464 (up 177.45%) and PG seats from 31,185 to 86,287 (up 176.69%).
•India received two WHO South-East Asia Regional awards — for sustaining elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus over a decade, and for leadership on noncommunicable diseases through primary healthcare.

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Science & TechLowquizQuiz

STPI holds Electropreneur Summit 2026, launches Open Challenge Programme

•Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) held the Electropreneur Summit 2026 at IIIT-Delhi, launching the Open Challenge Programme of the STPI Electropreneur Park to identify and support ESDM startups.
•MoUs were exchanged with 11 Spoke Centres spanning Chandigarh, Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and with investors Indian Angel Network (IAN) and Solara VC.
•Electropreneur Park 2.0 targets 500 startups and a push into Tier-II and Tier-III cities, against EP 1.0's 59 startups, 66 patent filings and over ₹640 crore in startup valuation.

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Science & TechMediumquizQuiz

ICAR-NRC on Mithun develops AI system to track Mithun behaviour in real time

•Researchers at the ICAR-National Research Centre on Mithun, Nagaland, have built an artificial intelligence system that detects and tracks Mithun behaviour in real time in a natural farm setting.
•Twelve high-definition CCTV cameras with infrared coverage across two sheds produced a dataset of 3,000 manually annotated images of four behaviours — feeding, standing, lying and mounting.
•The framework pairs the YOLOv8n detection model with DeepSORT tracking, achieving mAP@0.5 of 99.5 per cent, recall of 99.6 per cent and about 31 frames per second on an NVIDIA RTX 3060 GPU.

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DefenceLowquizQuiz

India and Morocco hold inaugural Joint Defence Committee meeting in New Delhi

•The inaugural India-Morocco Joint Defence Committee meeting was held in New Delhi on 8 September 2026, covering training and education, peacekeeping, military exercises, medical cooperation, cyber defence and defence industries.
•It was co-chaired by Joint Secretary (International Cooperation), Ministry of Defence, Shri Amitabh Prasad and Brigadier General Abdellah Athmani, Chief of the 2nd Bureau of the Moroccan Royal Armed Forces.
•The Committee is the institutional mechanism created by the defence MoU signed during Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh's visit to Morocco in September 2025; the two sides are moving towards the 70th anniversary of ties in 2027.

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Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan turns six; 10 crore-plus national pledge planned

•The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment will hold a National Mass Pledge Against Drug Abuse by the end of September 2026 to mark the sixth anniversary of the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan (NMBA), targeting participation by over 10 crore citizens.
•The plan was firmed up at the third high-level coordination meeting chaired by Joint Secretary (Drug Prevention) Dr Sandeep Rewaji Rathod, which set out a 'Whole of Government' and 'Whole of Society' approach and a Uniform Reporting Mechanism for participation data.
•Pledge ceremonies are to be held across offices, educational institutions, autonomous bodies, PSUs and field formations of ministries including Railways, Defence, Youth Affairs & Sports, Education, Post, Police, CAPF, NCC, AYUSH, Rural Development and Health & Family Welfare.

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Navy Chief Admiral Krishna Swaminathan to visit Australia and New Zealand

•Admiral Krishna Swaminathan, Chief of the Naval Staff, begins an official visit to Australia and New Zealand on 9 September 2026 to deepen cooperation with the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal New Zealand Navy.
•The Australia leg follows the Third India-Australia Annual Summit of July 2026 and the Second India-Australia Defence Ministers' Dialogue of June 2026.
•The New Zealand leg follows Prime Minister Narendra Modi's July 2026 visit, during which the two countries elevated ties to a Strategic Partnership, and the recently concluded Maritime Cooperation Arrangement.

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DefenceLowquizQuiz

IAF and Japan Air Self Defence Force to hold Veer Guardian-2026 at Jodhpur

•The Indian Air Force and the Japan Air Self Defence Force (JASDF) will hold the bilateral air exercise Veer Guardian-2026 at Air Force Station Jodhpur from 9 to 22 September 2026.
•The IAF fields the indigenous LCA Tejas along with Su-30 MKI and Rafale; the JASDF participates with its F-2A fighter aircraft.
•The fourteen-day schedule covers advanced operational missions, mission planning conferences, subject-matter-expert exchanges, and engineering and aerospace-safety interactions.

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Science & TechLowquizQuiz

ARCI develops bi-layered titanium-zirconia single-piece dental implant under DST support

•Scientists at ARCI, an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology, have developed a single-piece dental implant that fuses a titanium alloy fixture with a zirconia crown region.
•The single-piece design removes the abutment interface, where micromovements can compromise osseointegration, and cuts the two to three surgeries a conventional implant needs.
•It was made by Spark Plasma Sintering in a custom tapered graphite die, reaching 99.5% density with a crack-free interface; the work is published in Materials Letters.

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EnvironmentLowquizQuiz

7th India-Japan Joint Working Group on Forests meets at Bengaluru, endorses 2027-2031 roadmap

•The 7th meeting of the India-Japan Joint Working Group on cooperation in forests was held at Bengaluru on 8 September 2026.
•The Indian side was led by the Additional Director General (Forests), MoEFCC, and the Japanese side by a Deputy Director General of the Forestry Agency, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
•The two sides endorsed a Roadmap for 2027-2031 under the Memorandum of Cooperation signed in 2015 and signed the Minutes of the 7th JWG.

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Science & TechHighquizQuiz

DoT's Financial Fraud Risk Indicator prevents over Rs 5,000 crore of suspected cyber fraud in 15 months

•The Department of Telecommunications says its Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI) has helped prevent suspected cyber fraud losses of more than Rs 5,000 crore in the fifteen months since its launch on 22 May 2025.
•Cumulative prevention rose from Rs 139.16 crore in August 2025 to Rs 5,043.73 crore by August 2026, with over Rs 2,000 crore prevented in the four months from April 2026 alone.
•FRI is built on DoT's Digital Intelligence Platform and classifies mobile numbers as Medium, High or Very High risk using inputs from Sanchar Saathi, I4C's National Cybercrime Reporting Portal and telecom operators.

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History & CultureLowquizQuiz

Vice-President visits INA Museum at Moirang, site of the first tricolour hoisting on the Indian mainland

•Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan visited the INA Museum at Moirang, Manipur, and paid floral tribute to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at the site where the INA first hoisted the tricolour on the Indian mainland.
•He then visited Sainik School Imphal, where he laid a floral tribute at the War Memorial and addressed the cadets on discipline, courage and leadership.
•He said Sainik Schools have a special role in strengthening the spirit of Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat, as cadets from diverse backgrounds study and train together.

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Schemes & CommitteesMediumquizQuiz

Day-Care Cancer Facility inaugurated at Vidisha with Tata Memorial Centre support

•Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science & Technology Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated a Day-Care Cancer Facility at Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government Medical College, Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh.
•The facility is being developed with technical support from the Tata Memorial Centre, the cancer institution run under the Department of Atomic Energy.
•It follows a Cancer Gap Care Analysis by TMC specialists from 5 to 7 June 2026 and a screening camp that identified 586 cancer patients and 254 suspected cases.

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DefenceLowquizQuiz

IAF to hold Dronathon-2026 at Pokhran range for indigenous drone and counter-drone systems

•The Indian Air Force is organising Dronathon-2026 to let domestic manufacturers demonstrate Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (CUAS) capabilities.
•It runs from 14 to 16 September 2026 at the Pokhran range, Jaisalmer, with static displays and live demonstrations to evaluate combat effectiveness.
•Focus areas are surveillance and reconnaissance, autonomous operations, swarm technologies and electronic warfare, aligned with Atmanirbhar Bharat.

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Agreements & MoUsMediumquizQuiz

DFPD and FCI sign FY 2026-27 MoU linking foodgrain management targets to depot performance

•The Department of Food & Public Distribution and the Food Corporation of India signed a Memorandum of Understanding for FY 2026-27 in New Delhi.
•The MoU sets a performance framework with defined annual targets on storage losses, storage capacity utilisation, logistics and supply chain, and quality control.
•A proportion of the targets is linked to depot performance measured through the Depot Darpan Portal, a web platform assessing depot infrastructure and operational efficiency.

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NationalMediumquizQuiz

2,800-km Dedicated Freight Corridor completed as PM dedicates ₹35,000 crore projects in Vadodara

•The Prime Minister laid foundation stones for and dedicated development projects worth more than ₹35,000 crore at Vadodara, Gujarat, on 8 September 2026.
•The centrepiece was the completion of the 2,800-km Dedicated Freight Corridor, comprising the Eastern and Western corridors.
•Separating freight from passenger traffic allows over 430 cargo trains to run daily and cuts a 30-hour truck journey to 10-12 hours.

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EconomyMediumquizQuiz

Kharif sown area at 1,086.31 lakh hectares; pulses and jute gain, rice and cotton fall

•All-India kharif sown area stood at 1,086.31 lakh hectares as on 4 September 2026, against 1,104.00 lakh hectares in the same week of 2025-26 — a fall of 17.69 lakh hectares.
•Pulses (117.13 lakh ha, up 1.84) and jute and mesta (6.34 lakh ha, up 0.10) were the two groups to gain over last year.
•Rice fell the most, to 421.82 lakh hectares from 438.19 lakh hectares, a decline of 16.37 lakh hectares.

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Awards & HonoursLowquizQuiz

72nd National Film Awards to be presented at Ekta Nagar, Gujarat, on 22 September

•The President of India will present the 72nd National Film Awards on 22 September 2026 at Ekta Nagar (Kevadia), Gujarat, honouring Indian cinema of 2024.
•The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has decided to hold future editions in different states and cities rather than only in the National Capital.
•'Article 370' was adjudged Best Feature Film, 'Bhangaar' Best Non-Feature Film and 'Ram-Nami' Best Documentary; Mammootty ('Bramayugam') and Kartik Aaryan ('Chandu Champion') share Best Actor, Yami Gautam is Best Actress and Randeep Hooda wins Best Debut Director.

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Schemes & CommitteesMediumquizQuiz

PM-SETU clears ₹735.70 crore ITI cluster plans; total sanction reaches ₹2,171 crore

•The 5th National Steering Committee of PM-SETU approved Strategic Investment Plans worth ₹735.70 crore for ITI clusters in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana.
•This takes the total sanctioned investment under PM-SETU to ₹2,171 crore across nine ITI clusters.
•The three clusters are Bhiwadi (Rajasthan, ₹241.00 crore, anchored by H.G. Infra Engineering Limited), Medchal (Telangana, ₹254.30 crore, anchored by ZEN Technologies Limited) and Meerut (Uttar Pradesh, ₹240.40 crore, submitted by NSDC).

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History & CultureLowquizQuiz

Bhupen Hazarika's 100th birth anniversary marked; Bharat Ratna and Phalke laureate of Assam

•The Prime Minister paid tribute to Dr Bhupen Hazarika on his 100th birth anniversary on 8 September 2026.
•Hazarika was born on 8 September 1926 at Sadiya in Assam and died in 2011; he was a singer, lyricist, composer, filmmaker and writer.
•He received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1992, the Padma Vibhushan posthumously in 2012 and the Bharat Ratna posthumously in 2019.

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Schemes & CommitteesMediumquizQuiz

DAHD steps up Lumpy Skin Disease surveillance; 36.18 crore cattle vaccinated so far

•The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying has stepped up prevention, surveillance and control of Lumpy Skin Disease, coordinating with States and UTs on vaccination and other containment measures.
•More than 36.18 crore cattle have been vaccinated or re-vaccinated against LSD so far; there are 3,461 active cases at present, mainly among young, unvaccinated animals and those with co-morbidities.
•Since July 2026 sporadic cases have been reported mainly from Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Uttarakhand, with very low severity and recovery generally within a week.

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InternationalMediumquizQuiz

Rajnath Singh begins maiden Sri Lanka visit, pledges support in times of crisis

•Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh began his maiden visit to Sri Lanka on 8 September 2026 with an interaction with the Indian diaspora in Colombo, saying India will always stand firmly with the island nation whenever it faces a crisis.
•He framed the relationship on shared cultural and civilisational ties and credited the diaspora with acting as a bridge between the two peoples.
•The address set out India's economic transformation — an economy that has roughly doubled from USD 2 trillion in 2014 to about USD 4 trillion, growing 7.8% in Q1 of FY 2026-27.

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MoES and NIOT hold deep sea mining industry workshop to secure India's critical minerals

•The Ministry of Earth Sciences and the National Institute of Ocean Technology held an Industry Outreach Workshop on 'Deep Sea Mining - Business Opportunities and Strategic Importance' at the Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi, with EY as knowledge partner and NITI Aayog associated.
•India holds an exclusive International Seabed Authority exploration contract over 75,000 sq km of the Central Indian Ocean Basin, estimated to hold roughly 366 to 380 million tonnes of polymetallic nodules.
•India is the first nation to hold two exploration contracts for polymetallic sulphides, the more recent one covering the Carlsberg Ridge.

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Polity & GovernanceMediumquizQuiz

CRCS-Sahara refund portal restored; Rs 9,267 crore paid to 41.56 lakh depositors

•The Ministry of Cooperation has restored the CRCS-Sahara Refund Portal, restarting verification and refund processing for depositors of four Sahara Group cooperative societies.
•Rs 9,267 crore has been refunded so far to 41,56,711 depositors, credited directly into Aadhaar-seeded bank accounts; about 20 lakh applications are still to be processed.
•The refund mechanism runs under the Supreme Court's order of 29 March 2023 in W.P. No. 191/2022, and the portal itself was launched on 18 July 2023.

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Schemes & CommitteesMediumquizQuiz

International Literacy Day 2026 marked as ULLAS drives the push for a fully literate India

•The Ministry of Education held the national-level celebration of International Literacy Day 2026 in New Delhi, with Minister of State for Education Shri Jayant Chaudhary saying literacy and education must be reimagined as instruments of empowerment and active citizenship.
•The event was organised by the Department of School Education & Literacy around this year's theme, 'Literacy for people, the planet and prosperity'.
•Tripura Chief Minister Prof. (Dr.) Manik Saha said the state had reached a 95.6% literacy rate, crossing the Centre's benchmark for being declared fully literate.

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EconomyMediumquizQuiz

Seven bids in Round 1 of the ₹37,500 crore coal and lignite gasification scheme

•Round 1 of the ₹37,500 crore Scheme for Promotion of Surface Coal/Lignite Gasification Projects closed with seven applications.
•Applicants are NTPC Limited (synthetic natural gas), Adani Enterprises (three urea projects), Gallantt Ispat (direct reduced iron and syngas), Shyam Sel & Power (syngas) and Talcher Fertilisers (urea).
•The scheme was approved by the Union Cabinet on 13 May 2026; the Request for Proposal was issued on 7 July 2026.

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Banking & FinanceHighquizQuiz

Global Fintech Fest 2026 opens in Mumbai on agentic AI, tokenisation and quantum

•The 7th Global Fintech Fest is being held in Mumbai from 8 to 11 September 2026 and was inaugurated by the Prime Minister on 8 September.
•Its theme is 'Potential to Impact: Agentic AI | Tokenisation | Quantum — Trusted, Connected, Global Systems for Inclusive Finance'.
•The principal organisers are the Payments Council of India, the National Payments Corporation of India and the Fintech Convergence Council, with support from MeitY, the Department of Financial Services, the MEA's NEST Division, NITI Aayog, RBI, SEBI, IFSCA and PFRDA.

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Schemes & CommitteesHighquizQuiz

9th Rashtriya Poshan Maah to launch from Varanasi with Anganwadi Centres at its core

•The 9th Rashtriya Poshan Maah will be launched on 9 September 2026 at the Rudraksh International Cooperation and Convention Centre, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.
•Its central theme is 'Hamari Anganwadi, Hamari Jimmedari', built on five priorities: dietary diversity and protein, fresh hot cooked meals, community ownership through Anganwadi Management Committees, nutrition-linked early childhood development, and ten years of the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana.
•Poshan Maah is the September campaign of Mission Poshan 2.0, the unified nutrition mission of the Ministry of Women and Child Development that merged POSHAN Abhiyaan, Anganwadi Services (ICDS) and the Scheme for Adolescent Girls.

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PIB Current Affairs — 8 September 2026

Ladakh Lt Governor given additional charge of Jammu and Kashmir

Coal Ministry launches first sector-wide CSR framework; 1,050 transplants under TBSY

NCSC issues notice to Punjab Government, seeks report within five days

MoSPI launches QPR portal on data harmonisation for administrative data use

President appoints five judges to Chhattisgarh and Gauhati High Courts

WHO South-East Asia Region adopts Dili Declaration; India wins two SEARO awards

STPI holds Electropreneur Summit 2026, launches Open Challenge Programme

ICAR-NRC on Mithun develops AI system to track Mithun behaviour in real time

India and Morocco hold inaugural Joint Defence Committee meeting in New Delhi

Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan turns six; 10 crore-plus national pledge planned

Navy Chief Admiral Krishna Swaminathan to visit Australia and New Zealand

IAF and Japan Air Self Defence Force to hold Veer Guardian-2026 at Jodhpur

ARCI develops bi-layered titanium-zirconia single-piece dental implant under DST support

7th India-Japan Joint Working Group on Forests meets at Bengaluru, endorses 2027-2031 roadmap

DoT's Financial Fraud Risk Indicator prevents over Rs 5,000 crore of suspected cyber fraud in 15 months

Vice-President visits INA Museum at Moirang, site of the first tricolour hoisting on the Indian mainland

Day-Care Cancer Facility inaugurated at Vidisha with Tata Memorial Centre support

IAF to hold Dronathon-2026 at Pokhran range for indigenous drone and counter-drone systems

DFPD and FCI sign FY 2026-27 MoU linking foodgrain management targets to depot performance

2,800-km Dedicated Freight Corridor completed as PM dedicates ₹35,000 crore projects in Vadodara

Kharif sown area at 1,086.31 lakh hectares; pulses and jute gain, rice and cotton fall

72nd National Film Awards to be presented at Ekta Nagar, Gujarat, on 22 September

PM-SETU clears ₹735.70 crore ITI cluster plans; total sanction reaches ₹2,171 crore

Bhupen Hazarika's 100th birth anniversary marked; Bharat Ratna and Phalke laureate of Assam

DAHD steps up Lumpy Skin Disease surveillance; 36.18 crore cattle vaccinated so far

Rajnath Singh begins maiden Sri Lanka visit, pledges support in times of crisis

MoES and NIOT hold deep sea mining industry workshop to secure India's critical minerals

CRCS-Sahara refund portal restored; Rs 9,267 crore paid to 41.56 lakh depositors

International Literacy Day 2026 marked as ULLAS drives the push for a fully literate India

Seven bids in Round 1 of the ₹37,500 crore coal and lignite gasification scheme

Global Fintech Fest 2026 opens in Mumbai on agentic AI, tokenisation and quantum

9th Rashtriya Poshan Maah to launch from Varanasi with Anganwadi Centres at its core