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March 2, 2026 5:15 PM
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Mizoram’s correctional facilities are grappling with significant overcrowding, with the current inmate population exceeding total capacity by over 15 per cent. In a written response to a recent Assembly question, Home Minister Pu K. Sapdanga revealed that while the state’s 11 functional jails, inclu...
March 2, 2026 5:12 PM
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India has renewed its Bilateral Swap Arrangement - BSA with Japan with effect from 28th February, 2026. According to an official release issued today by the Reserve Bank of India, the size of the BSA remains unchanged at 75 billion US Dollars. The BSA is a two-way arrangement where both authorities ...
March 2, 2026 5:08 PM
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Captive and Commercial coal mines recorded coal production of more than 20 million tonnes (MT). The Ministry of Coal and Mines said that dispatches reached above 17 MT. The Ministry informed that cumulative coal production from these mines registered a growth of almost 12% year-on-year for the finan...
March 2, 2026 4:59 PM
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Indian scientists helped rewrite a 50-year-old biological rule of bacterial gene regulation and unveiled new paths for understanding bacterial gene regulation and its evolution. The Ministry of Science and Technology said that this could help design better antibiotics or regulatory inhibitors that b...
March 2, 2026 4:53 PM
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Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports Raksha Nikhil Khadse today announced a special edition of the Achieving Sports Milestone by Inspiring Women Through Action (ASMITA) League in New Delhi. The League marks International Women’s Day on the 8th of this month. Addressing a press conference, ...
March 2, 2026 10:17 PM
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Senior BJP leader and Union Minister Amit Shah today launched the Bharatiya Janata Party’s “Paribartan Yatra” from Raidighi in South 24 Parganas, asserting that the people of West Bengal were now seeking change. Mr. Shah said the people in the state are distressed under what he described as the mis...
March 2, 2026 4:26 PM
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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has praised the vibrancy of civil society in India, highlighting that it continues to play a key role in upholding the country's democratic traditions and the rights of minorities. At the same time, while presenting his global update to t...
March 2, 2026 4:20 PM
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Union Minister for Labour and Employment Dr Mansukh Mandaviya today chaired the 239th meeting of the Central Board of Trustees (CBT), Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) in New Delhi. In a social media post, Dr Mandaviya informed that during the meeting, several important decisions were taken to enhance...
March 2, 2026 4:11 PM
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Nagaland has recorded the highest GST growth in the country at 37%, significantly surpassing the national average of 6.8% during the financial year up to December 2025. This was announced by Governor of Nagaland Ajay Kumar Bhalla during his maiden address to the Budget Session of the Nagaland Assemb...
March 2, 2026 4:00 PM
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Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu met Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi today and urged her to provide a financial package under Special Central Assistance to compensate for the revenue deficit for the financial year 2026-27. The Chief Minister informed the Union Finance M...
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