India, Jan. 29 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) is releasing, through this press note, the Report of the Expert Group on Comprehensive Updation of the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Expert Group, constituted for base revision of CPI, has experts from eminent academic institutions, seniors officers from Reserve Bank of India and Government of India. To accurately capture the changing consumption behaviour of the househo...
India, Jan. 29 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) conducted an inspection drive in Greater Noida to assess visible road dust and the effectiveness of road-cleaning and sweeping on stretches maintained by the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA). The inspection was carried out to review on-ground implementation of dust mitigation measures and identify gaps requiring immediate corrective ac...
India, Jan. 29 -- The Government of India has issued a release: LOCAL INGENUITY AND FRUGAL AI IN INDIA AN AI ECONOMIC COUNCIL FOR INDIA India's AI story is already evolving from the bottom-up. Local innovators, municipal bodies, start-ups, and community institutions are deploying AI to solve problems that are immediate and contextual to the communities they reside in. AI has multi-sectoral applications in health, agriculture, education, urban management, and disaster preparedness. The AI Eco...
India, Jan. 29 -- The Government of India has issued a release: State Total Youth Registered ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS 23750 ANDHRA PRADESH 700476 ARUNACHAL PRADESH 39418 ASSAM 571138 BIHAR 512280 CHANDIGARH 66558 CHHATTISGARH 439738 DELHI 416824 GOA 44844 GUJARAT 798557 HARYANA 636751 HIMACHAL PRADESH 241547 JAMMU AND KASHMIR 558739 JHARKHAND 304755 KARNATAKA 679715 KERALA 495325 LADAKH 32223 LAKSHADWEEP 4259 MADHYA PRADESH 1257364 MAHARASHTRA 1326696...
India, Jan. 29 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The global climate change agenda has reached an inflexion point, what was once framed as a straightforward moral and technological transition toward a net-zero future is today marked by complex trade-offs, capacity constraints and a widening gap between ambition and operational reality stated the Economic Survey 2025-26 tabled in Parliament today by Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Smt Nirmala Sitharaman. The Econ...
India, Jan. 29 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The concept of infrastructure is evolving beyond physical networks to encompass digital public infrastructure, clean energy systems, resilient water management and future ready technologies. The last 11 years have been marked not just by the accelerated expansion of traditional infrastructure, such as highways, railways, ports, and energy systems, but also by the expansion of future ready digital public infrastructure (DPI), data s...
India, Jan. 29 -- The Government of India has issued a release: State/UT Number of Uploaded Villages Andaman and Nicobar Islands 176 Andhra Pradesh 17142 Arunachal Pradesh 4613 Assam 26074 Bihar 39563 Chandigarh 12 Chhattisgarh 19571 Delhi 252 Goa 431 Gujarat 19271 Haryana 7579 Himachal Pradesh 18735 Jammu & Kashmir 6926 Jharkhand 29908 Karnataka 29569 Kerala 1275 Ladakh 238 Lakshadweep Islands 13 Madhya Pradesh 56429 Maharashtra 40042 Manipur 306 Meg...
India, Jan. 29 -- The Government of India has issued a release: As part of ongoing structural reforms in the mining sector and in line with the vision of Aatmanirbhar Bharat and Viksit Bharat 2047, the Government of India has notified Coking Coal as a Critical and Strategic Mineral under the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 (MMDR Act). The details may be accessed through this link https://coal.nic.in/sites/default/files/2026-01/29-01-2026a-wn.pdf. The decision has been...
India, Jan. 29 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The entities who have been granted licence from Central Government to set up nuclear facilities or to carry out activities pertaining to nuclear energy will be responsible for continuous monitoring, accounting and surveillance of the nuclear material, safe management of radioactive waste generated, radiation damages caused, payment of prompt compensation for nuclear damages to the victims of nuclear incidents, safe and secure opera...
MUMBAI, India, Jan. 30 -- Reserve Bank of India issued the following press release: Data on sectoral deployment of bank credit for the month of December 2025, collected from 41 select scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) which together account for about 95 per cent of the total non-food credit by all SCBs,1 are set out in Statements I and II. On a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis, non-food bank credit2 grew by 14.4 per cent as on the fortnight ended December 31, 2025, compared to 11.1 per cent during t...