India, Jan. 29 -- The Government of India has issued a release: FIRST ADVANCE ESTIMATE PROJECTS REAL GDP GROWTH AND GVA GROWTH FOR FY26 TO 7.4 AND 7.3 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY POTENTIAL GROWTH FOR INDIA ESTIMATED AT AROUND 7 PER CENT, WHILE REAL GDP GROWTH FOR FY27 PROJECTED AT 6.8-7.2 PER CENT CENTRE'S REVENUE RECEIPTS ROSE TO 9.2% OF GDP IN FY25 (PA) GNPAs REACH MULTI-DECADAL LOW OF 2.2%IN SEPTEMBER 2025 55.02 CRORE BANK ACCOUNTS OPENED AS OF MARCH 2025 UNDER PMJDY, WITH 36.63 CRORE IN RURAL...
India, Jan. 29 -- The Government of India has issued a release: In the education space, progress in school and higher education has been at the back of enhanced quality and access through community engagement, effective assessments, improved accountability, and stronger alignment between education and skill requirements states the Economic Survey 2025-2026 tabled in Parliament today by Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman . According to the Survey, the achie...
India, Jan. 29 -- The Government of India has issued a release: In order to promote adoption of modern processing technology in Food Processing Sector, Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) extends Grant-in-Aid to educational and research institutions including Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) recognized Research and Development (R&D) units in private sector for related demand driven R&D projects through its R&D scheme under Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAMPADA Yojana (PMKSY)...
India, Jan. 29 -- The Government of India has issued a release: Astronomers have unravelled the mystery behind an intriguing flicker that they noticed in black hole systems, using advanced computer simulations. Black holes, the most compact objects in the Universe with strong gravitation are studied indirectly by observing the electromagnetic radiation emitted by matter surrounding them. Matter falling toward a black hole due to the strong gravitation, first collects in a temporary structure c...
India, Jan. 29 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The Economic Survey 2025-26 tabled in the Parliament today by the Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman has stated that India recorded lowest inflation rate since the beginning of the CPI series, with April-Dec 2025 average headline inflation coming in at 1.7%. The moderation in retail inflation is primarily attributed to the general disinflationary trend in food and fuel prices, which together a...
India, Jan. 29 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) continues to advance India's commitment to the sustainable use of biological resources and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from their utilisation. In furtherance of its mandate under the Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) framework, the NBA has disbursed Rs 17 lakh to the Biodiversity Management Committee (BMC) of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Maharashtra, t...
India, Jan. 29 -- The Government of India has issued a release: Urban Poverty Alleviation is a state subject. Government of India supplements the efforts of State Governments/UTs through programs and schematic interventions for the urban poor. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, MoHUA implemented "Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM)" to reduce economic, social and residential vulnerabilities of urban poor. The implementation period of DAY-NULM ended on ...
India, Jan. 29 -- The Government of India has issued a release: SBM Phase Budget Outlay Central Share SBM-U (2014-2021) 62,009 14,623 SBM-U 2.0 (2021-2026) 1,41,600 36,465 Government of India launched the Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U) on October 2, 2014 with the objective of making urban areas of the country Open Defecation Free (ODF) and for scientific processing of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) generated in the urban areas of the country including State of Maharashtra, Madhya Pra...
India, Jan. 29 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) today exchanged a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Ms. Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon and Mr. Ranjan Tandon for the establishment of the Krishnamurthy Tandon School of Artificial Intelligence at IIMA. The MoU was exchanged in the esteemed presence of Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Minister of Education, Government of India in New Delhi and Ambassador Shri Vinay Kwatra virtua...
India, Jan. 29 -- The Government of India has issued a release: Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation undertakes assessment of the functionality of household tap water connections provided under the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM), through an independent third-party agency, based on standard statistical sampling. The Functionality Assessment 2024 was conducted across 19,812 Har Ghar Jal (HGJ) villages covering 2,37,608 households in 761 districts across 34 States/ UTs. It was found that tap connec...