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Sports
- Asian Games 2026: Aichi-Nagoyav8 · Folds the day-by-day medal log into final results now the Games are over, and adds India's 501-athlete contingent and Gulveer Singh's three-medal first in athletics.
- Asian Para Games 2026: Aichi-Nagoyav2 · Opens the Asian Para Games 2026 card: edition, host and dates, India's entering body, its Hangzhou record and the two flag bearers.
- Cricket 2026 — Results Trackerv19 · Names Smriti Mandhana as India women's captain after Harmanpreet Kaur, and logs the eight-wicket Lucknow win that opened the five-match T20I series against West Indies.
- Multi-Sport & Global Events 2026 - Trackerv33 · Added India's place among seven countries in preliminary IOC talks to host the 2036 Summer Olympics, with a shortlist due in March 2027, as one row (R-182).
- Chess Olympiad 2026: Samarkandv1 · Gives the Samarkand Olympiad its own card (R-182): India's Open silver and women's bronze, the retained Gaprindashvili Trophy and six individual medals, with the rounds that led there.
- India's Anti-Doping Lawv1 · Brought the National Anti-Doping Act, 2022 and its 2025 Amendment into force on 17 July 2026 — India's clean-sport regime now carries full statutory force, aligned with the WADA Code and the UNESCO anti-doping convention.
Awards & Honours
- Major Awards – 2026 Trackerv22 · Moved the 2026 Nobels to their own card (R-182 split), added Satya Nadella's US technology medal and Israel's bravery award for pilot Smit Machchhar, and cut rows to 12.
- Nobel Prizes 2026v1 · New card for the 2026 Nobels, split from the awards tracker: adds the Peace Prize to South African judge Navi Pillay, of Indian Tamil origin, beside the four earlier prizes.
- Gallantry & National Honours 2026v1 · Republic Day 2026: 70 gallantry awards - Ashok Chakra to Gp Capt Shubhanshu Shukla, 3 Kirti Chakras; Jeevan Raksha Padak 2025 to 30.
- Nobel Prizes 2025v1 · 2025 Nobels awarded across all six categories; MOFs, macroscopic quantum tunnelling and peripheral immune tolerance take the science prizes
- Padma Awards 2026v1 · Padma Awards 2026: 131 conferred - 5 Vibhushan, 13 Bhushan, 113 Shri; Dharmendra and V S Achuthanandan among posthumous Vibhushan.
Environment & Ecology
- India's Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) Regimev6 · Adds the NBA's April-September 2026 receipts - ₹9.68 crore, agri-seed leading - and the ₹278 crore realised since 2008, and trims the card to its exam core.
- Monsoon 2026, El Nino & Climate Signalsv9 · Adds WMO's 8 October outlook - El Nino heading for a record December peak, a positive dipole - and trims the card to its exam core under the split rule.
- COP31 Antalya & India's Stancev2 · Adds India's 8 October Pre-COP31 asks: ambition matched by finance, technology and capacity support, Article 9.1 on the agenda, Article 6 cooperation, and nationally determined pathways.
- India's Renewable Energy Milestonesv6 · Updates wind to 59.20 GW (30 Sep 2026), adds the 100 GW-by-2030 wind goal and Windergy India 2026, and restates rooftop loans as repo plus 50 bps.
- Tiger Conservation in Indiav5 · Adds Nameri's CA|TS Approved accreditation (10 Sep 2026), which completes it for all four Assam tiger reserves; the 2023 IBCA launch moves out of the capped log.
- India's Carbon Market (CCTS & GEI Rules)v5 · Adds the India-Japan JCM Operational Manual of 30 September 2026, which takes the Article 6.2 channel to projects, and reorganises the card around the scheme's core and a dated log.
- Delhi-NCR Air Quality & GRAPv9 · Adds CAQM's October enforcement: Flying Squads in 34 Punjab and Haryana districts against stubble burning until 30 November, and PTZ cameras on NCR industries' fuel use by 31 October.
- Great Indian Bustard Conservationv3 · Records the start of rewilding: two captive-bred males released at Sam on 4 October 2026, the Ramdevra Rewilding Aviary, a 97-bird captive flock and the updated jump-start count.
- Project Cheetahv4 · Rolls the population to 60, 41 of them Indian-born, after KJP21's five cubs on 5 October, the first with a Botswanan father; recasts the card around its core.
- CAFE Norms — India's Fleet Fuel-Economy Rulesv3 · Moves the CAFE norms from draft to notified: in force 1 April 2027 to 31 March 2032, benchmark about 16.7 percent tighter, plus super credits and a Carbon Neutrality Factor.
- Restoring India's Degraded Forestsv2 · Adds India's COFO 28 statement: Bonn Challenge progress, forest and tree cover, FAO ranks and flagship programmes; rebuilds the card around its restoration core.
- India's Forest and Wood Certification Scheme (PRAMAAN)v1 · Adds a new card on India's forest and wood certification scheme as its first PRAMAAN certificates go to APFDC and an Odisha bamboo farmer.
- International Whaling Commission and Indiav1 · Introduces the International Whaling Commission: its 1946 convention, binding Schedule, commercial-whaling moratorium and India's membership since 1981, with India's IWC-70 call in Hobart for science-led cetacean conservation (ruling R-183).
- India International Water Week 2026, Ninth Editionv2 · Corrects the dates to 22-25 September 2026 (four days, closing on 25 September, not 26) and adds what the week produced: the recommendations report, census reports on springs, water bodies and irrigation, two Dutch MoUs for Gujarat's Kalpasar Project and an India-Africa roundtable on water and sanitation.
- New Species Described in India — 2026 Trackerv1 · Opens the 2026 species tracker with Gastrodia keyiensis, the leafless ghost flower orchid described from a Keyi River gorge in Arunachal Pradesh.
- Rhino Conservation in Indiav1 · New card on India's rhino: the greater one-horned rhinoceros, Assam's near-80 percent share of the world's rhinos, Kaziranga's anti-poaching record, the return of rhinos in Bihar and West Bengal, the Dudhwa reintroduction, and Project Rhino, which the Prime Minister said on 22 September 2026 has been set going for the range States.
- NGT - India's Green Tribunalv2 · Closes out the Tribunal's international conference - President Droupadi Murmu's valedictory on 20 September 2026 and the release of its souvenir 'Harit Nyayam' - and adds what its 2010 Act says: who may chair it and how the Chairperson is chosen, the five-year term, the three principles every order must apply, the penalty for defying an order, and the appellate authority it replaced.
- India at UNCCD COP17v3 · India hosted the Global Dryland Congress 2026 in New Delhi and it closed by adopting the Delhi Declaration on Drylands. ICAR and ICRISAT drew over 800 experts from more than 25 countries, marked 50 years of their partnership, and heard India's domestic case that drylands are productive landscapes: 61.39 million hectares of rainfed farming, 43 percent of the net sown area, and 7,602 watershed projects in 12 years.
- India's Groundwater Resourcev6 · Added the fluorosis programme: what the NPPCF does about excess fluoride, and the multi-stakeholder workshop the health ministry held on National Fluorosis Day, 9 September 2026.
- Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan (NCAP City Rankings)v3 · Fills in the programme behind the ranking. NCAP was launched in 2019 in mission mode, and between FY 2019-20 and FY 2025-26 its 130 cities received Rs 16,423.55 crore of performance-linked grants, of which they report spending Rs 11,575.54 crore, or 70.5 percent. India had 1,646 air-quality monitoring stations in 603 cities as of March 2026, with SAMEER publishing AQI for over 292 of them. Road dust and construction account for 40 to 50 percent of PM10 in most NCAP cities. The 2025 round's toppers were Indore, Amravati and Dewas.
- Geothermal Energy in Indiav1 · India commissioned its first two geothermal wells at Puga Valley in Ladakh in July 2026, each 1,000 metres deep, under the national geothermal policy notified in September 2025 — the first step towards a 1 MW demonstration plant.
- Himalayan Glaciers & GLOF Riskv2 · Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan reviewed GLOF and snow-avalanche readiness on 3 September 2026 with Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir, alongside the MHA, NDMA, Central Water Commission, IMD and the Defence Geoinformatics Research Establishment. The states were told to watch vulnerable lakes continuously, plan flow paths, close gaps in early warning and evacuation before the next extreme event, sharpen last-mile alerts, and speed up the GLOF mitigation project the Centre sanctioned for them in 2024. The card is also restructured to the reader contract - a nine-stat capsule, marked pointers and a key-terms rail - with every existing figure kept.
- Snow Leopard Conservation in Indiav1 · New card: India presents its snow leopard science — counting, radio-collaring and genetics — at a Russia-India roundtable in Moscow under the Irbis-IBCA partnership.
- Elephants - Census & Human-Wildlife Conflictv3 · Added the 13 August 2026 national elephant event at Visakhapatnam - the Gaj Gaurav Awards 2026, and, more substantially, a Rs 500 crore Regional Action Plan that puts human-elephant conflict in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Karnataka on a single landscape footing rather than four separate ones. New too: Project Elephant's 1992 start as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme, the 30 Giant Steps record of 2020-2026, the 23rd Steering Committee's Phase II conflict study across five States, Andhra Pradesh's H.A.N.U.M.A.N. wildlife-care units, and a school campaign that reached over 20 lakh children.
- Asiatic Lions — Population and Second Homev2 · Added the ministry's World Lion Day 2026 markers — 891 lions against 523 in 2015, and a range now near 35,000 sq km versus about 30,000 in 2020 — and rebuilt the card into a scannable checklist, stat capsule and four sections.
- India's River Interlinking Programmev1 · Of the 30 river links planned under the National Perspective Plan, only Ken-Betwa is being built, at ₹44,605 crore; the Kosi-Mechi inter-state link is dropped, and Polavaram has drawn ₹20,658 crore of central assistance.
- E20 Achieved - India's Ethanol Programmev3 · Rebutted the E20 contamination scare: nationwide testing on 8 August 2026 found chloride of 0-3 parts per million at pumps — against a claim of 500 ppm — with refinery petrol at or under 1 ppm, ethanol from 80 distilleries under 3 ppm, and no water ingress in underground tanks at about 90,000 outlets.
- India's Updated NDC (2031-2035)v2 · The government has put current NDC progress on the parliamentary record: emissions intensity down 37.38 per cent by 2022 (earlier reported as 36 per cent to 2020), non-fossil capacity at 54.18 per cent as on 30 June 2026, and a carbon sink of 2.44 billion tonnes to 2022. One correction: India's live 2030 emissions-intensity goal is 45 per cent, set by the 2022 NDC update - the 33-35 per cent figure this card carried belongs to the superseded 2015 pledge.
- The Aravalli Definition Disputev1 · SC stays its own 100-metre Aravalli definition (29 Dec 2025), orders new expert panel; blanket freeze on new mining leases stays until ICFRE plan.
- The High Seas (BBNJ) Treatyv1 · High Seas (BBNJ) Treaty entered into force 17 Jan 2026 after the 60th ratification (19 Sep 2025); India signed Sept 2024 but has not yet ratified.
- COP30 Belém & India's Stancev1 · COP30 closes with Global Mutirão finance package but no fossil-fuel phase-out; India presses CBDR, Article 9.1 and finance 'in trillions'.
- EU CBAM & Indian Exportsv1 · EU CBAM enters paying phase (1 Jan 2026): India''s steel/aluminium exports hit; Delhi objects on CBDR and WTO grounds, weighs domestic carbon pricing as its counter.
- The Great Nicobar Projectv1 · NGT (16 Feb 2026) declined to interfere with the Great Nicobar clearance; FRA-consent disputes over Shompen and Nicobarese rights remain in court.
- India's Ramsar Sites & Wetlandsv1 · India hits 100 Ramsar sites: Surha Tal (Ballia) listed on World Environment Day 2026; four new sites added in the first half of 2026.
- India's Waste Rules Overhaulv1 · SWM Rules 2026 in force (four-stream segregation, EBWGR); plastic recycled-content rises to 60% by 2028-29; DRAP targets zero dumpsites by Oct 2026.
- Western Ghats ESA Notificationv1 · Centre moves to notify Western Ghats ESA phase-wise from consenting states (Gujarat first); sixth draft covers about 56,825 sq km, expires July 2026.
Polity & Governance
- Cybercrime in India - The Fraud Epidemicv8 · Adds 2024 fraud losses of over Rs 22,800 crore, ASTR's 82 lakh-plus disconnected connections and India's 9 October welcome for ITU joint trials against cross-border telecom fraud.
- Examination Governance After the NEET 2026 Leakv13 · Adds a parliamentary committee's 382nd Report on the NTA - computer tests in government centres, a permanent cadre, admission tests only - and trims the card to the R-182 contract.
- NCAHP — Regulating Allied and Healthcare Professionsv1 · New card: the 2021 NCAHP Act, the Commission's functions and registers, and the October 2026 rules creating Autonomous Boards and a Central Assessment Committee.
- Key Appointments - 2026 Trackerv20 · Adds Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, named on 6 October to become the 29th Chief of the Air Staff on 31 October, succeeding Air Chief Marshal AP Singh; 49 rows.
- Regulating India's Higher Educationv7 · Adds the UGC Letter of Intent reported for the University of Colorado Denver's Hyderabad campus, set to be Telangana's first foreign university campus.
- Collegium & Judicial Appointments in 2026v4 · Adds the 5 Oct 2026 elevation of three High Court Chief Justices and recasts the card around appointment, bench strength and removal, dropping debate quotes.
- Drug-Free India by 2029 — the Three-Year Roadmapv3 · Refreshes the fugitive count to 288 from 36 countries (to August 2026) and logs the 3 October deportation of narco-trafficker Navpreet Singh from Türkiye.
- The Election Commission Under Scrutinyv9 · Adds the Supreme Court's 5 October refusal to suspend the CEC over SIR decisions allegedly taken without fellow Commissioners' concurrence; notices issued, the plea is pending.
- Panchayati Raj: Advancement Index, Digital Push and Panchayat Financesv4 · Adds the 2026-27 People's Plan Campaign, opened by over 2.42 lakh Special Gram Sabhas on 2 October, new SVAMITVA and SAMARTH prints and the new Secretary; trims state-level RGSA detail.
- Bank Records as Evidence in Indian Courtsv3 · Marks the Act as in force since 1 October 2026, when it replaced the 1891 law on proving bank records in court.
- India's Late Birth and Death Registration Lawv4 · Marks the amendment as in force since 1 October 2026: late entries past two years now need a First Class Judicial Magistrate's order.
- SC/ST Protection Laws — PoA and PCR Actsv1 · New card on the PCR and PoA Acts: who enforces them, the Special Courts rule, the SAMBAL helpline and ₹1,423.30 crore of central releases over 2022-25.
- UPSC — India's Central Recruiting Commissionv2 · Records the centenary as held, with the stamp, coin and judgements book released; corrects removal: Article 317 also lets the President remove a member by order alone.
- UIDAI and Aadhaar — India's Digital Identityv1 · Opens the UIDAI home card: the 2016 statutory basis, what Aadhaar is and is not, and the five initiatives launched on the 17th Aadhaar Day.
- Census of India 2027v6 · Updated Phase I to the Prime Minister's 27 September count: nearly complete nationwide, 32 crore-plus families recorded, 2.6 crore self-enumerated; card reorganised around its exam core (R-183).
- Access to Justice - DISHA 2.0, eCourts and Fast-Track Courtsv4 · Added India's first Victim Rights Centre, opened in Patna in September 2026 by the Chief Justice of India, Surya Kant: a one-year pilot at the Bihar State Legal Services Authority that gives victims legal help, counselling and psychological support under one roof, to be extended to every district of Bihar. The checklist is cut to the exam core and the ten sections regrouped into six, with a dated log of what changed; event logistics and attendee names are dropped.
- FSSAI - India's Food Safety Regulatorv2 · Added FSSAI's September 2026 draft that reserves the name paneer for milk-derived products: a new clause under Regulation 2.1.1 of its 2011 sales regulations, with products licensed as Analogue in Dairy Context required to drop the word. The card now opens with the regulator itself - set up in 2008 under the 2006 Act, working under the Health Ministry, operational since 5 August 2011 - and keeps the August school-food cut-offs.
- FCRA and the 2026 Amendmentsv5 · Opened the Joint Parliamentary Committee's scrutiny of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026: the 31-member panel under Lok Sabha member Sanjay Jaiswal met for the first time on 18 September 2026 in New Delhi, where Home Ministry officials briefed it on what the Bill provides. The panel has 21 Lok Sabha members named by the Speaker and 10 Rajya Sabha members named by the Chairman, and must report by the close of the winter session's first week. The Amendment Rules, 2026 stay in force, untouched.
- Consumer Protection in E-Commercev1 · The amended e-commerce rules are notified and take effect on 1 January 2027 — no search manipulation, labelled sponsored listings, 30-day prior-price disclosure and a yearly dark-pattern audit; the CCPA has also fined Rapido ₹10 lakh for dark patterns in its tipping prompts.
- Parliament's 2026 Monsoon Sessionv12 · Records that the Bankers’ Books Evidence Act (assent 13 August, in force 1 October 2026) and the Births and Deaths registration amendment (assent August, in force 1 October 2026) have moved from passage to commencement, and that the August “no UPI merchant-discount-rate framework” position ended on 15 September 2026.
- Zonal Councils — Western Zonal Council 2026v1 · Amit Shah chaired the 28th Western Zonal Council at Panaji on 7 September 2026, with Goa, Gujarat, Maharashtra and the Union Territory at the table; the Government put zonal-council meetings at 71 since 2014 against 25 over the previous decade, and 1,445 of 1,893 issues closed.
- DGP Appointments and the Prakash Singh Guidelinesv1 · The Supreme Court held Jharkhand's DGP appointment to be against its Prakash Singh directions: the officer took charge with one day of service left, not the six months the court requires.
- Ladakh's Hill Development Councilsv1 · Ladakh's Lieutenant Governor approved hill development councils in all seven districts, extending elected district government to five newly created ones; polls await a Section 8 notification.
- Regional Languages in High Courts (Article 348)v1 · Tamil Nadu's Assembly voted unanimously on 3 September 2026 to ask the Centre for Tamil as the principal language of the Madras High Court, and this new card sets out the constitutional route such a switch must travel - Article 348(2), the Governor's proposal, the President's prior consent, and Section 7 of the Official Languages Act, 1963 for the judgments themselves.
- School Education - the RTE Quota, Funds and Curriculumv4 · NCERT's textbook rewrite has moved up a stage: on 1 September the Education Minister said the Class 1 to 9 books under the new curriculum framework are out and revised Class 10 to 12 books are being written in mission mode, with artificial intelligence to be worked into what schools teach.
- The 2026 Red Fort Addressv1 · Decodes the 80th Independence Day address: the Sapt Dhara seven streams, AI training for 1 crore youth, a voluntary civil-defence force, free online exam coaching, the 6-crore Lakhpati Didi goal and the 100 GW nuclear target for 2047.
- Renaming Kerala as Keralamv3 · Recorded the Rajya Sabha's passage on 12 August 2026, which takes the renaming Bill through both Houses, and added the Upper House debate that the Lok Sabha never had. Fills in the state-consent step too: the President referred the Bill to the Kerala Assembly, which agreed to it by a unanimous resolution. Nothing is renamed yet - the Bill still awaits the President's assent, so Kerala remains the State's constitutional name.
- OBC Classification and OBC Certificates in West Bengalv1 · Explains the Calcutta High Court ruling that ends West Bengal's OBC-A and OBC-B split and leaves everyone holding a certificate issued under the earlier rules in the general category.
- India's Public Grievance Portal (CPGRAMS)v1 · Explains the portal that handles India's public grievances, and where it now stands. CPGRAMS gives citizens one 24x7 window into every Central Ministry and Department and all States and Union Territories: grievances have grown from about 3.01 lakh a year in 2014 to roughly 27 lakh in 2024, average disposal time in Central Ministries has fallen from 157 days to 14, and guidelines issued in August 2024 cut the redressal deadline from 30 days to 21 with a 30-day appeal to a Nodal Appellate Authority. The AI voice chatbot Samadhan Didi launched on 30 May 2026, and a NextGen rebuild is under development.
- Women's Reservation & the Delimitation Questionv2 · Added the Parliamentary Affairs Minister's 8 August warning that the one-third women's quota could slip to the 2034 general election unless delimitation begins early on census figures already published, and rebuilt the card to the current reader format.
- The Anti-Defection Law Back in Focusv1 · 7 of AAP's 10 Rajya Sabha MPs merge into BJP; disqualification plea before the Chairman tests the Tenth Schedule's two-thirds merger exception.
- Amaravati - Andhra's Sole Capitalv1 · Amaravati is now AP's sole, permanent capital in law - President assented 6 Apr 2026; 'three capitals' plan buried.
- Assembly Elections 2026v2 · Removed/corrected unverifiable CM ordinal numbers
- Custodial Deaths & the Anti-Torture Law Gapv1 · Govt data: 170 custodial deaths in 2025-26 (to 15 Mar), just one disciplinary action in five years; India still has not ratified UNCAT or enacted an anti-torture law
- Denotified Tribes (DNTs)v1 · DNTs cleared for a first dedicated count in Census 2027 (since 1931); welfare via DWBDNC and the Rs 200 crore SEED scheme, with ~267 communities still unclassified.
- The Federalism Reset Debate (Kurian Joseph Committee)v1 · Kurian Joseph Committee (TN) report submitted Feb 2026: proposes a structural federal reset - fixed Governor terms, GST Council veto cut to 20%, delimitation freeze extended to 2126.
- IT Rules Amendment 2026 (AI-Content Labelling)v1 · IT Rules 2026 in force: AI/deepfake content must be labelled with permanent provenance metadata, and the unlawful-content takedown window is cut from 36 hours to 3.
- Article 142, Suo Motu & the Limits of Judicial Powerv1 · SC's June 2026 'right to walk' ruling and rising suo motu use reignite the Article 142 judicial-overreach debate.
- NATGRID - India's Intelligence Gridv1 · NATGRID linked to NPR (about 119 crore residents) and opened to state police (SP+); AI Organised Crime Network Database launched Dec 2025
- Online Gaming Rules 2026 & OGAIv1 · Online Gaming Rules 2026 in force (1 May): money games banned, e-sports recognised, and a new regulator, OGAI, set up under MeitY to classify games.
- Passive Euthanasia — From Doctrine to Applicationv1 · SC's Harish Rana ruling (11 Mar 2026) becomes the first application of India's passive-euthanasia framework: CANH held to be medical treatment and lawfully withdrawn.
- PESA Rules in Jharkhandv1 · Jharkhand notifies PESA Rules (Jan 2026), about 25 years on: Gram Sabha powers extended to 16,022 villages across 13 districts.
- The Age-of-Consent Debate (POCSO)v1 · SC (Jan 2026) urges Centre to weigh a Romeo-Juliet exemption; Law Commission 283rd keeps consent age at 18 but backs sentencing discretion for 16-18 cases
- The Right to be Forgotten in Indiav1 · Delhi HC (29 May 2026) roots the right to be forgotten in Article 21 and frames de-indexing/masking rules for online court records
- Uniform Civil Code — The State-by-State Rolloutv1 · Assam becomes the 3rd state (first in the Northeast) to pass a UCC in 2026, after Gujarat (2nd) and Uttarakhand's 2025 rollout.
Economy & Banking
- New GDP Series (Base Year 2022-23)v8 · Adds the NSO's 9 October draft guideline for States to compile expenditure-side GSDP on the 2022-23 base; no State yet estimates private consumption.
- India's Pharmaceutical Sectorv12 · Adds the 30 percent-of-MRP cap on cancer-drug trade margins and the draft curb on prescription-drug advertising by sellers; a new section explains NPPA, the DPCO and trade margins.
- SEBI Regulatory Actions 2026v1 · Opened SEBI's 2026 decision log with its exam core and the 7 October circular making a six-level, colour-coded Credit Risk-o-Meter compulsory for debt securities.
- GST 2.0 — The Two-Slab Reformv4 · Adds the 57th GST Council's recommendations — arrest powers dropped, prosecution threshold to ₹5 crore, ₹10,000 notice floor, faster refunds — and trims the note to its exam core.
- India's Foreign Trade - FY 2026-27v13 · Adds India's place among 15 economies backing a USTR-issued statement on structural excess capacity, and Goyal's 8 October reaffirmation of the US$ 1 trillion export goal.
- India's Maritime & Shipping Reformsv9 · Logs the third Sagarmanthan dialogue (shipping ministry with ORF, 7 October 2026) and the India-EU Green Shipping Corridor coalition launched there; older log entries compressed.
- Consumer Price Index (CPI) & Retail Inflationv5 · Adds the 7 October 2026 repo hike to 5.50 percent, the shift to calibrated tightening and RBI's raised 2026-27 CPI projection of 5.2 percent.
- India's Environmental-Economic Accounts (SEEA)v1 · Adds India's SEEA-based environmental accounts: the new 2026-2030 strategy and its priority subjects, the 2022-2026 roadmap, and MoSPI's fish-stock valuation paper.
- India's Balance of Payments Accountv4 · Updates foreign exchange reserves to US$734.6 billion on 2 October 2026, down from the US$785.7 billion record of 4 September.
- India's Transport Planning Authority (ITLA)v2 · Adds ITLA's place beside the PM GatiShakti National Master Plan and the National Logistics Policy, its role coordinating transport ministries, and the overseas models it follows.
- Paytm Payments Bank: Licence Cancellation and Winding Upv2 · Records Paytm Payments Bank's exclusion from the RBI Act's Second Schedule by a notification of 31 July 2026: it is no longer a scheduled bank.
- RBI Monetary Policy 2026v9 · Records the October hike to 5.50% and the shift to calibrated tightening, with new FY27 projections; adds the MPC's legal basis and inflation target, and trims stale prints.
- RBI Regulatory Actions 2026v11 · Adds the 7 October Basel III rules on CVA and SA-CCR, effective 1 April 2027, and Account Aggregator interoperability by 31 December 2026; trims the card to its core.
- The Rupee in 2026v6 · Records the 7 October 2026 repo hike to 5.50 percent, the shift to calibrated tightening and RBI's higher FY27 projections: growth 7.1 percent, inflation 5.2 percent.
- SME Growth Fund (SGF)v2 · Adds the fund's design from PIB's backgrounder — patient equity via a direct-investment AIF — plus the April 2025 SME thresholds and MSMEs' share of exports and GDP.
- WPI Base Revision & the Move to PPIv6 · Corrects the Index of Services Production's coverage: its 19 sub-sectors make up about 60 percent of services-sector GVA, per MoSPI's 6 October approach paper.
- ISP: India's Monthly Services Output Indexv2 · Adds MoSPI's 6 Oct 2026 Approach Paper: education, health and public administration to join the index, lifting coverage from about 60 to 80 percent of services GVA.
- India's Steel Sectorv4 · Replaces the April-August print with April-September 2026 figures, adds the National Steel Policy 2017 capacity goal, and records 101 Green Steel-certified producers.
- RoDTEP — Export Duty Remissionv1 · New card: what RoDTEP refunds, why it replaced MEIS after the WTO ruling, how the e-scrip works, and its extension to 31 December 2026.
- India's Private Corporate Capex Surveyv1 · New card: MoSPI's forward-looking survey of private corporate capex, its third round (October-December 2026) and the earlier rounds' headline results.
- India's Digital Payments Engine (UPI & Beyond)v12 · Replaces the August print with NPCI's September 2026 figures: 2,407 crore UPI payments, 23 percent more than a year earlier, worth ₹29.37 lakh crore.
- India's Offshore Mineral Auctionsv1 · Adds offshore mineral auctions: the OAMDR law and its 2023 auction-only amendment, the 2024 first tranche, and the two Andaman Sea nodule blocks offered on 1 October 2026.
- India's Sugar Sectorv3 · Adds the 15-day holding period and 1,000-quintal dealer cap for 15 October-30 November 2026, 2,000 in Kolkata and Assam, and the season-opening print: retail 15 percent off peak.
- India's Annual Survey of Industries (ASI)v1 · Adds the Annual Survey of Industries: who runs it, which factories it covers, and the 2024-25 results showing 9.59 percent GVA growth and factory employment past 2 crore.
- India's External Debtv1 · Adds India's external debt series: what the RBI measures and the end-June 2026 stock of US$ 778.2 billion, its ratios and make-up, with the International Investment Position as sister series.
- Minimum Support Prices (MSP) — How India Sets Themv1 · Explains how MSP is set — CACP recommends, CCEA decides, 22 crops, 1.5 times cost — and records the rabi 2027-28 prices, with wheat at ₹2,610 a quintal.
- Union Budget 2026-27v5 · Replaces the June accounts with the Centre's position to August 2026: receipts at 37.5 percent and spending at 38.9 percent of Budget Estimates, tax devolution ₹5,90,391 crore.
- India's Four Labour Codesv2 · Adds the Shram Samvad campaign (90 days, 316 districts) and the laws each Code replaced; brings social-security coverage to 68 percent and rebuilds the card core-first.
- Bharat Maritime Insurance Pool — India's Own Marine Coverv1 · Creates the card for India's first domestic marine insurance pool: ₹12,980 crore guarantee, ₹13,906.50 crore cover, who qualifies, how claims are paid and the policies written by 7 September 2026.
- India's Industrial Output Index (IIP)v3 · Replaces July's print with August 2026's quick estimate: industrial output up 8.0 percent, manufacturing 9.0 percent for a third month at 8 percent or more, capital goods up 16.9 percent.
- CGTMSE — Credit Guarantees for Small Firmsv1 · Explains CGTMSE, the Government-SIDBI trust behind collateral-free loans to small firms — its ₹10 crore cover ceiling, 75 to 90 percent guarantee slabs and exclusions — and its new cover for invoice discounting on TReDS, announced on 25 September 2026.
- India's Medical Devices & MedTech Sectorv5 · Added the medical-device PLI scorecard of 25 September 2026: production of 57 unique devices, from MRI and CT machines to heart valves, has begun under the ₹3,420 crore scheme approved in 2020, which pays 5 percent on incremental sales for five years across four segments. The card is rebuilt around its core - market, policy, PLI and rules - with a dated log of this year's changes.
- India's Net FDI Storyv2 · Adds the inflow side, a highest-ever US$94.53 billion of FDI inflows in 2025-26 and US$843 billion of cumulative FDI since 2014-15, explains why those numbers dwarf RBI's net figure of US$6.9 billion, and brings in the latest print: net FDI of US$13.4 billion for April-July 2026.
- India's Tourism Sectorv1 · New card: tourism accounted for 5.22 percent of GDP and 8.46 crore jobs in 2023-24 and drew 428.55 crore domestic and 2.53 crore foreign tourist visits in 2025. It also maps Swadesh Darshan 2.0, PRASHAD and the e-Visa, and the two launches set for World Tourism Day.
- Banking Sector Reformsv2 · Brings the MY Bharat figure up to date: more than 3 crore registered youth as of 23 Sep 2026, replacing the 2.60 crore the Finance Ministry cited at the Confluence.
- Bharat Taxiv2 · Added the Uttar Pradesh launch of 23 September 2026 in Lucknow, Kanpur, Gorakhpur, Varanasi and Prayagraj, and the six-month count since the February 2026 start: over 10 lakh Sarathis, about 20,000 rides a day and more than ₹100 crore paid to drivers.
- India's Coal Sectorv8 · Added how Coal India sells coal today - SHAKTI fuel supply agreements for power plants, linkage auctions for industry since 2016, e-auctions and State agencies for small buyers - and its switch to calorific-value contracts; trimmed the card to its core pointers with one latest supply print.
- Edible Oils in India: Import Duties and the Oilseeds Missionv1 · New card: the Centre cut customs duty on crude sunflower oil to nil and on crude soybean and palm oil to 5 percent to cool cooking-oil prices, while keeping refined oil 19.25 percent dearer in duty to protect domestic refiners. The card also sets out India's import dependence and the two oilseed missions.
- India's Sovereign Credit Ratingsv3 · Added Fitch's 23 September call: it raised India's 2026-27 growth forecast to 6.9 percent from 6.4 percent and expects the RBI to lift the repo rate to 5.5 percent in October, while S&P projected 7 percent. No agency changed India's rating. The card now opens with the rating scale and a dated log of each agency's move.
- NLMC - Monetising Surplus Government Landv2 · Added NLMC's chief executive, Rohan Chand Thakur, and its sale of 459 RINL land parcels in Visakhapatnam, which go to e-auction on 12 and 16 October 2026; the Rs 5,000 crore board recommendation of 18 September stays on the card.
- NSWS: India's One Portal for Investor Approvalsv1 · Explains the National Single Window System at five years: who runs it, how an application moves, the Know Your Approvals tool, PAN as the business ID, and its current count of approvals and onboarded businesses.
- Gwalior Telecom Manufacturing Zonev4 · The third investors' roundtable for the Gwalior zone, held in Bengaluru on 22 September 2026, drew proposals of ₹700-800 crore on top of the ₹5,500 crore already proposed by 24 companies, and the Communications Minister said it completed the first phase of investor outreach. He put Madhya Pradesh's incentives and subsidies at about ₹8,000 crore.
- RBI Forex Swap Schemes — FCNR(B), ECB & OFCBv4 · Raised the running count: the swap window has now drawn US$143,596 million to 18 September 2026, and the FCNR(B) leg is restated upward to US$132,980 million from the provisional US$127,226 million reported on 2 September. The deposit window stays shut; OFCBs and ECBs can still use the swap until 31 December 2026.
- EPFO Wage Ceiling for Mandatory Coveragev1 · The Union Cabinet has lifted the EPFO's mandatory-coverage wage ceiling to ₹25,000 a month — the first revision since 2014 — bringing more than 51 lakh additional employees into provident fund, pension and insurance cover.
- India's Automobile Sectorv5 · Rural buyers led August's record month. FADA's report puts registrations outside the cities 19.79 percent above August 2025, against 15.17 percent growth in urban markets, with the national count up 17.51 percent at 24,23,201 vehicles. Alternative-fuel cars still hold 41.95 percent of passenger-vehicle sales against petrol's 40.85 percent.
- Virtual Digital Assets: FIU-IND Registration and PMLA Compliancev1 · FIU-IND has served non-compliance notices on 15 virtual digital asset platforms under Section 13 of the PMLA, and ordered their applications and web addresses taken down under the IT Act. Crypto intermediaries serving Indian users have owed registration and reporting duties since March 2023, whether or not they keep an office in India.
- India's Jute Sectorv2 · Filled the card out from the Agriculture Ministry's own account of the sector. Jute packaging is a legal reservation - 100 percent of food grains and 20 percent of sugar must go into jute bags - and MSP paid to jute farmers has risen from Rs 441 crore over FY2004-05 to FY2013-14 to Rs 1,342 crore over FY2014-15 to FY2025-26, disbursed through about 110 purchase centres in six states. Also added: jute and mesta output of 94.03 lakh bales on the Third Advance Estimate, the JUTE-SMART portal's 303 lakh bales of sacking bags bought since 2016, and the National Jute Board's statutory welfare role.
- Competition Commission of India (CCI) — Orders Trackerv1 · Opened the tracker with the CCI order of 2 September 2026: four debenture-trustee bodies and their officials must stop fixing a minimum fee, though mitigating factors spared them any penalty.
- India - World's Largest Rice Producerv2 · Tripura's organic rice has reached Europe: APEDA flagged off 18 tonnes of NPOP-certified ethnic rice to Austria and the Netherlands on 2 September 2026, promising farmers up to 40 percent better prices.
- Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) — India Trackerv1 · Services PMI rose to 54.1 in August 2026 from 53.3, the composite held at 54.3, and services hiring reached a 15-month high.
- Financial Inclusion: FI-Index and Banking Accessv5 · India Post Payments Bank marked its ninth foundation day and launched three digital platforms - a DakPay Sound Box for merchants, an insurance technology platform and a mutual-fund platform. Added its March 2026 scorecard: 13.25 crore customers (77 percent rural, 49 percent women), Rs 29,104 crore of deposits and Rs 21.61 lakh crore of digital transactions.
- Income Tax Act, 2025v2 · The first filing season of the new tax code closed with a record: the Income Tax Department counted more than 7.8 crore returns for Assessment Year 2026-27 as on 31 August 2026, the revised deadline for business and professional filers whose accounts need no audit. Those returns are still assessed under the Income-tax Act, 1961. The card now carries the full deadline calendar, the Section 44AB audit thresholds, belated-return and verification rules, and reads faster throughout.
- India's Mining Law Reformsv4 · The 2026 MMDR amendment is now law — notified 17 August 2026 as the MMDR Amendment Act, 2026; Section 9D's bar on state levies over mineral rights and mineral-bearing land is in force, per the Ministry of Steel's April-July review.
- One State One RRBv2 · Added the FY2025-26 scorecard - record ₹10,176 crore net profit, ₹13.5 lakh crore business, GNPA 5.3% - and the SIDBI-RRB MSME co-lending push; card restructured to the reader contract.
- Critical Minerals & Rare Earths Strategyv4 · The eighth-tranche block auction has entered investor outreach: the Mines Ministry is roadshowing its 20 blocks — 17 composite-licence, 3 mining-lease — with Patna's event on 17 August 2026 paired with a workshop on the NMEDT scheme that refunds part of composite-licence holders' exploration costs. No tranche-8 block has been auctioned yet.
- Sixteenth Finance Commissionv3 · Added the rural local-body grants under the 2026-31 award: ₹4,35,236 crore for panchayats across 28 states, split 80:20 between basic and performance grants, with half the basic grant tied to water and sanitation — plus the Article 280(3)(bb) route that sends that money to a panchayat through its state.
- GeM — India's Public Procurement Platformv3 · Adds the seller-side headcount Parliament was given for 30 July 2026 — 11,75,001 MSMEs, 37,758 startups, 2,17,155 women entrepreneurs and 3,784 self-help groups — with the Karnataka and Bengaluru splits. Sets out the five-year procurement series: the MSME share of GeM orders sank to 36.2 percent in 2024-25 and rebounded to 47.2 percent, worth ₹2,37,235 crore, in 2025-26 even as total order value fell. Also records how GeM polices the market — machine-learning screening, the competition regulator's cartel toolkit, 365-day bans and 55,772 sellers suspended last year — and the Prime Minister's 11 August post on the minister's article.
- Urban Cooperative Banksv1 · Opens a standing card on urban cooperative banks. NUCFDC, the sector's umbrella body, switched on shared technology in Mumbai on 8 August 2026 — a bundled 'Bank in a Box' platform, a Security Operations Centre watching member banks around the clock, and a forensics tie-up — with 650 of about 1,400 banks now signed up and ₹306 crore of capital raised. The Reserve Bank's draft 'on tap' licensing route is open for comment until 5 September 2026, alongside five years of relief that reset branch, priority-sector and settlement rules.
- MSME Payment-Delay Reform Billv1 · Parliament has passed the MSME payment-delay amendment: state-owned buyers must clear small-firm invoices on TReDS, and disputes now run on 30-day, 90-day and six-month clocks. Presidential assent is the last step before it becomes law.
- Economic Survey 2025-26v1 · Economic Survey 2025-26 (tabled 29 Jan 2026): FY26 growth pegged at 7.4%, FY27 at 6.8-7.2%; case made for an entrepreneurial state moving India from self-reliance to strategic indispensability.
- IBC at Ten - The Review Debatev1 · Standing Committee's 28th Report (2 Dec 2025) reviews IBC at ten: 32.8% recovery, 713-day average resolution, backs the pending IBC (Amendment) Bill, 2025.
- Insurance Laws (Amendment) Act, 2025v1 · Insurance Laws (Amendment) Act, 2025 in force: 100% FDI allowed, IRDAI penalty ceiling raised to Rs 10 crore, foreign-investment rules notified 30 Dec 2025.
- National Logistics Policy at Threev1 · NLP at three: ULIP past 160 crore transactions, India 38th on the LPI; DPIIT-NCAER study pegs logistics cost at 7.97% of GDP (2023-24), down from the long-quoted 13-14%.
- National Monetisation Pipeline 2.0v1 · NMP 2.0 launched: Rs 16.72 lakh crore brownfield asset pipeline (FY26-30), 2.6x NMP 1.0; asset recycling to fund new CAPEX.
- RBI Surplus Transfer & the Economic Capital Frameworkv1 · RBI's Central Board approved a Rs 2,86,588.46 crore FY26 surplus transfer to the Centre on 22 May 2026, resolving conflicting reported figures
Important Days
International Relations
- India-ASEAN Comprehensive Strategic Partnershipv4 · Logged the 15th AITIGA Joint Committee (Jakarta, October 2026), which pressed sub-committees for time-bound progress on the review's pending chapters; the next round meets in India in January 2027.
- India-US Relations - Tariffs & Tiesv16 · Adds the US suspension of PERM, the employer's green-card step, for eight firms including Infosys, TCS, Wipro and HCL; India says existing H-1B visas stay valid.
- India-Canada Relationsv4 · Adds the 5-7 October NSA-level Security Dialogue in New Delhi: closer work on terrorism, organised crime, cybercrime, trafficking and extradition, and planned cyber and economic security dialogues.
- The West Asia War & India's Stakesv21 · Adds India's 8 October condemnation of the attacks on Abha and Riyadh airports, which Saudi Arabia says killed three, and folds the September entries into one.
- Indian Seafarers in the Black Seav3 · Adds India's 7 October condemnation of attacks on three Black Sea ships - Aframax Rio's 23 Indian crew rescued, seven Indians on Able evacuated to Bulgaria.
- India-EFTA TEPAv2 · Adds TEPA's first-anniversary push: the 2nd India-EFTA Prosperity Summit and the Commerce Department's new FTA Utilisation Cell; fixes the signing-to-force gap at over 18 months.
- India-Switzerland Relationsv2 · Adds the Indo-Swiss Research Framework, Switzerland's further CHF 45 million for joint research, the Explore scheme and renewed investment-treaty talks from the Swiss President's visit.
- India-UK CETA in Forcev4 · Adds the fourth India-UK Financial Markets Dialogue (London, 29 September 2026): joint work on GIFT IFSC, London as the offshore rupee hub, and a push to implement CETA.
- India-Afghanistan Relationsv2 · Adds India's backing for Afghan sovereignty at the 8th Moscow Format talks, explains the Russia-hosted format, and rebuilds the card around the bilateral core.
- India-Nepal Relations: Boundary Row and the 2026 Floodsv11 · Nepal closed flood search and rescue on 5 October with at least 1,455 dead, 5,285 missing and 13,795 rescued; it puts early recovery at nearly $5 billion.
- Ebola Outbreak in DR Congo (2026)v3 · Updates the toll to 4,018 deaths among 8,300 confirmed cases across seven provinces (3 Oct 2026) and adds Africa CDC's warning that falling case reports may mask surveillance gaps.
- The Inter-Parliamentary Union and Indiav1 · New card: the IPU's founding, headquarters, membership and organs, and India's delegation to the 153rd Assembly in Arusha (5-9 October 2026).
- Colombo Security Conclavev1 · Opens the card on the Colombo Security Conclave: members and observer, 2011 origins, 2024 Charter, Colombo secretariat, five pillars, and the Deputy NSA meeting India hosted on 30 Sep 2026.
- India's Gulf Partnerships — UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, GCCv9 · Retitles the card to name Qatar and the GCC beside the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and trims speech lines from the log; no fact changes.
- India-France Ties: A Special Global Strategic Partnershipv7 · Adds the 28 September education talks: French universities invited to open branch campuses in India, GIFT City included, and the India-France qualifications-recognition agreement under revision.
- UNSC Reform — India's Pushv5 · Adds IBSA's joint call of 24 September: permanent seats for India and Brazil, a permanent African presence and formal text-based negotiations during UNGA 81.
- India at the 81st UN General Assemblyv5 · Adds the 26 September General Debate address (self-defence against terrorism, open energy and trade routes) and Russian, Portuguese and Mauritian backing for a permanent seat; earlier entries condensed.
- India at the WorldSkills Competitionv5 · Adds the Shanghai 2026 result: India 10th, up from 13th, with six silvers, 20 Medals for Excellence and a Best of Nation in Bakery; pre-event logistics trimmed (R-183).
- IMEC: India's Corridor to Europe via the Gulfv2 · Added the US position: President Donald Trump backed IMEC at a UN-week meeting with Gulf and Arab leaders on 22 September 2026, urging energy links away from Iranian checkpoints. Added India's 2026 joint statements with France and Israel, including the first IMEC ministerial meeting encouraged for 2026, and cut the war background to one line.
- Greenland: the US-Denmark Security Dealv2 · Named the two sites the deal is expected to open - Mestersvig and Narsarsuaq, alongside the existing Pituffik Space Base - and dated the signing: 22 September 2026, at the UN General Assembly in New York, with the leaders of the three governments. The text is still unpublished, and whether it amends the 1951 defence treaty or stands as a new framework is unknown; the Danish and Greenlandic parliaments must approve it before it takes effect.
- India-EU Trade & Technology Council (TTC)v2 · A European Parliament industry and research committee delegation, led by Angelika Winzig, took the Council's agenda to Dr Jitendra Singh in New Delhi on 22 September 2026: India wants tangible outcomes from the Council, research collaboration through Horizon Europe, and early signature and ratification of the India-EU trade agreement. The card now also says where the Horizon Europe talks stand and what the EUR 60 million clean-technology pot funds.
- India-Japan Economic Partnershipv2 · Added India's official trade figure - USD 27.48 billion with Japan in FY 2025-26, exports USD 6.04 billion - and the framework the relationship actually runs on: the partnership ladder from 2000 to 2014, over 70 standing dialogues, the 2+2 since 2018 and the economic security dialogue it opened. Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri held talks on 22 September 2026 with a Liberal Democratic Party delegation led by Taro Kono, in India under the Distinguished Visitors Programme. The day-by-day account of the August 2026 business delegation is now a dated log.
- India's Energy Dialogue with OPECv1 · Covers the OPEC-India Energy Dialogue for the first time. The standing producer-consumer forum, begun at New Delhi in 2015, held its seventh High-Level Meeting there on 22 September 2026, co-chaired by Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri and OPEC Secretary General Haitham Al Ghais; it took up energy security, steady oil markets and investment in supply, and agreed to meet next in Vienna.
- India-Pakistan Bilateral Relationsv2 · Added India's stated policy line - relations only in a climate free of terror, hostility and violence (External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, Lok Sabha, 7 August 2026) - with the MFN withdrawal, the 200 percent duty and the other measures in force, and the channels both sides still keep open, from DGMO talks to the exchange of nuclear-installation and prisoner lists.
- India-Bhutan Partnership: Hydropower and Development Aidv1 · Covers Jaishankar's 16-18 September visit to Bhutan: a ₹4,000 crore concessional credit line for energy, the 1,020 MW Punatsangchhu-II inauguration, new hospital, bridge and hydro launches, and UPI payments for Bhutanese nationals in India.
- India-Bangladesh After the 2024 Upheavalv2 · India has two invitations out to Bangladesh's Prime Minister Tarique Rahman - one for a bilateral visit, one for the BRICS Summit as Chair of BIMSTEC - and the External Affairs Ministry says both sides are resetting ties through dialogue; Dhaka calls it a working relationship and a work in progress, and intends to host a BIMSTEC Summit in 2027. On the ground the energy link keeps running: the 72nd consignment down the India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline delivered nearly 4,000 tonnes of diesel to Parbatipur in mid-September, taking the total since 2023 to 330,087 tonnes.
- India-China Relations — The Cautious Resetv5 · Added the Modi-Xi meeting of 12 September 2026 in New Delhi - Xi's first visit to India in nearly seven years - where India pressed its 'three mutuals' of respect, sensitivity and interest, held that differences must not become disputes, and raised the structural trade imbalance and market access. Also records the MEA's rejection of the Pakistan-China Boundary Joint Commission as legally invalid on 16 September, with India restating that it has never recognised the 1963 China-Pakistan boundary agreement and that Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh remain integral parts of India.
- India-Russia at 25 (Strategic Partnership)v2 · Brings the partnership up to September 2026. Putin held talks with Prime Minister Modi in New Delhi on 11 September around the 18th BRICS Summit, and INNOPROM India 2026 - the first Indian edition of Russia's industrial fair - set a US$ 50 billion investment target beside the US$ 100 billion trade goal for 2030, with trade now near US$ 60 billion. Army chief General Dhiraj Seth visited Russia from 16 to 18 September. The note is also restructured to the current reading format, with the old key-facts list moved into the pointers.
- India-Sri Lanka Relationsv6 · Signed in Colombo: two defence MoUs - upgrading six L70 air-defence guns for the Sri Lanka Air Force under an Indian grant, and cadet-corps plus war-college cooperation - with three Indian-built Bailey bridges opened and President Dissanayake repeating that Sri Lankan territory will not be used against India's security interests.
- India-Luxembourg Relationsv2 · Added Xavier Bettel's public backing for a permanent Indian seat on the UN Security Council, made during his 7-9 September 2026 visit: he wants the Council enlarged to take in India and Brazil, calls the veto a relic of the Second World War, and would let a two-thirds majority overturn one.
- India-Belgium Relationsv2 · India will post a defence attache in Brussels, matching Belgium's officer in New Delhi; the External Affairs Ministry put two-way trade at about US$ 13 billion behind the five-year doubling goal, set out a three-Ts frame of Trade, Technology and Talent, and added civil-aviation talks and a shared position on Ukraine.
- India-Seychelles Relationsv2 · India's Department of Fisheries hosted Seychelles' Minister of Fisheries, Agriculture and Blue Economy, Wallace Cosgrow, on 25 August 2026: the two sides mapped work on mariculture, tuna, data systems and marine conservation, agreed to build an annual work plan, and Seychelles asked for a dedicated fisheries and aquaculture MoU.
- India-SACU Preferential Trade Agreement Talksv2 · Corrected the Commerce Secretary's name to Rajesh Agrawal, the spelling used in the government's own trade releases; nothing else in the note changes.
- India-Uzbekistan Relationsv3 · The State Visit has happened: ties are now a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, with 16 outcomes, a US$ 5 billion trade target for 2030, a UPI-UZQR payments deal, a US$ 1 million Aral Sea grant and Uzbekistan's top friendship order for the Prime Minister.
- India's Suspension of the Indus Treatyv2 · India has rejected the Court of Arbitration's latest ruling on the treaty: the MEA says the panel was set up in breach of the pact, has no authority over India's sovereign choices, and that the treaty stays in abeyance.
- Saudi-Türkiye-Pakistan Pact & Indiav2 · Added the first sign of the pact becoming machinery: Türkiye's defence ministry said on 13 August 2026 that the three states will build political and military mechanisms under it - their military chiefs, foreign ministers and defence ministers - and are planning joint exercises and closer defence-industry cooperation. This is a stated Turkish intention, not a constituted body, and no Indian reaction is on record.
- India-Israel Relationsv2 · India and Israel wrapped up the second round of proposed free-trade-agreement talks (20-23 July 2026, New Delhi), building on the February 2026 upgrade to a Special Strategic Partnership; bilateral merchandise trade stands at USD 3.93 billion. The whole card is also restructured for faster reading.
- President Murmu's 2026 Europe State Visitsv2 · Completes the tour with the Romania leg: in Bucharest President Murmu addressed the India-Romania Business Forum on 24 July, held talks with President Nicusor Dan and Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan, and signed three MoUs - including a Chair of Indian Studies at the University of Bucharest - pitching the India-EU FTA and inviting Romanian firms into India's growth story.
- India-Maldives Relationsv2 · First round of the India-Maldives FTA concluded (virtual, 29 Jun-7 Jul 2026); two-way trade rose 13.54% to USD 771.76 million in 2025-26, with India the Maldives' second-largest trading partner.
- Chabahar Port - India's Iran Gatewayv1 · US sanctions waiver on Chabahar lapsed 26 Apr 2026; 2026-27 budget gave zero allocation; India weighing stake transfer to Iran; port operating but not commercially scalable.
- The Gaza Plan & Abraham Accords 2.0v1 · Trump's Board of Peace runs Gaza's transition under UNSC Res 2803; UK, Canada, France, Australia, Portugal recognise Palestine; India holds to two-state line
- India-EU Free Trade Agreement Talksv1 · India-EU FTA concluded at the 27 Jan 2026 summit: duty-free access for 99%+ of Indian exports, dairy fully protected, CBAM safeguards secured; signing and ratification pending.
- India-Oman CEPAv1 · India-Oman CEPA in force since 1 Jun 2026: 99.38% of India's exports get duty-free access; India is only the 2nd country after the US to sign a comprehensive pact with Oman.
- The US Retreat from Multilateralismv1 · US completes WHO exit (Jan 2026) and heads for a third UNESCO withdrawal by Dec 2026, leaving swelling UN arrears and a funding gap the Global South must absorb.
Science & Technology
- India's Telecom Sectorv14 · Adds the third Bharat 6G Symposium, the New Delhi Declaration's first progress report and TTDF's 136 funded projects, and gathers India's 6G goals and alliances in one section.
- India's Additive Manufacturing Strategy (NSAM)v1 · New card on India's 3D-printing strategy: MeitY's 2022 targets, progress to October 2026 and the priorities of the coming NSAM 2.0.
- National Quantum Missionv4 · Adds India's first free-space quantum key distribution link, a 5.56-km QNu Labs trial with BISAG-N and IIT Gandhinagar on 27-28 September 2026, and why open-air links matter.
- National Supercomputing Missionv1 · Introduces the National Supercomputing Mission: its DST-MeitY steering, ₹4,500 crore plan, 50-machine target and the September 2026 count of 40 machines with 68 petaflops.
- BHASHINI — India's Language AI Platformv1 · Creates the BHASHINI platform card: who runs it, its four language technologies and coverage, and the new CAG-BHASHINI Anuvaad audit-report translation tool.
- CHIME Telescope and Hydrogen Intensity Mappingv1 · Creates the CHIME card: what the telescope is, how hydrogen intensity mapping probes dark energy, and its first standalone detection with Raman Research Institute collaborators.
- Kavach - Train Collision Protectionv6 · Adds the 28 Sep approval of Rs 223 crore for Kavach 4.0 on 614.75 route km of Varanasi Division, North Eastern Railway, as the latest divisional sanction.
- Private Space Companies in Indiav8 · Adds the Agnibaan RLV's design - a reusable upper stage and a restartable, deep-throttling semi-cryogenic engine - and TDB's place under DST, with every pointer cut to the core.
- India's Bioeconomy & BioE3 Policyv3 · Adds the first commercial product under BioE3: on 24 September 2026 a biodegradable plastic made of polylactic acid (PLA) was launched, developed by Balrampur Chini Mills from sugar feedstock, with a ₹75 crore BIRAC grant for a 100 TPA pilot plant at Kumbhi, Uttar Pradesh. The card is also rebuilt around the policy core - approval, aim, six thematic areas, target, funding and infrastructure - with the August 2026 speech remarks taken out.
- India's Semiconductor Mission (ISM & Semicon 2.0)v6 · Recorded the close of SEMICON India 2026 on 19 September - 56 MoUs, announcements and initiatives, 600-plus exhibitors, 52 countries - and named the two newest plants in production, CDIL Semiconductor at Mohali and Suchi Semicon at Surat. Added ISM's chief executive, the RISC-V challenge results and C-DAC's new AI and quantum platforms, with the mission's core now first.
- Bharat Forecast Systemv5 · India's Doppler Weather Radar network reached 51 with the Sambalpur station in Odisha, inaugurated on 17 September 2026 - up from 14 radars in 2014, with about 40 more planned under Mission Mausam. IMD now extends weather, cyclone and flash-flood early warnings to 13 neighbouring countries.
- Green Hydrogen: Mission, Refineries and the Trainv5 · Added a research front to the card. Scientists at the Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences in Bengaluru, an institute of the Department of Science and Technology, have built a photocatalyst with no metal in it: an amino acid joined to a light-absorbing dye, the pair assembling itself in water into ordered nanosheets that split water using sunlight. The ordered form yields nearly 18 percent more photocurrent than the same material in bulk. Mission outlay, targets, the refinery allocations and the hydrogen train are unchanged.
- ORV Sagar Manthan - India's New Ocean Research Vesselv1 · Records the launch of ORV Sagar Manthan at Kolkata on 9 September 2026 - India's own advanced ocean research vessel, built by GRSE for NCPOR, due in service by 2028 in place of ORV Sagar Kanya.
- Deep Ocean Mission & Samudrayaanv6 · Adds the launch of the mission's own ocean research vessel, ORV Sagar Manthan, at Kolkata on 9 September 2026 - the ship this card had listed only as a keel laid - and the International Seabed Authority's five-day deep-sea taxonomy school that CMLRE hosted at Kochi from 7 to 11 September.
- Indian Biotech Breakthroughsv3 · Adds ARCI's bi-layered single-piece dental implant. The International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials, a Department of Science and Technology institute, fused titanium alloy and yttria-stabilised zirconia into one body by spark plasma sintering, reaching 99.5 percent density in a single step. It replaces the usual three-part implant, so a patient faces fewer surgeries. Bench-tested and published in Materials Letters; machining is still being optimised.
- EOS-05 — India's First GEO Imaging Satellite (GSLV-F17)v2 · Corrected the PSLV-C62 payload count against the Indian primary. ISRO Chairman V. Narayanan's briefing of 12 January 2026 puts the 64th PSLV flight at EOS-N1 plus 14 co-passenger payloads, 15 in all, where a wire report had said 16; he traced the failure to a roll-rate disturbance near the end of the PS3 stage and a flight-path deviation.
- IndiaAI Missionv7 · A privately built sovereign AI stack, Gnani Artha, was launched by the Vice President on 28 August 2026 - the Evon 3.3 language model paired with the Plexus platform, from the firm GNANI AI - and the card now also records Parliament's own AI interpretation in eight languages on Digital Sansad, with all Scheduled Languages to follow.
- India's National Time Networkv2 · India's national clock now has legal force: rules notified on 27 August 2026 make Indian Standard Time the common reference for administrative, commercial, legal and other official use, taking effect 180 days after they are gazetted, with NavIC recognised as an approved timing source.
- SHANTI Act & the Nuclear Openingv6 · Sizes the fleet the new law governs: 24 reactors at seven sites and 8,780 MW today, nine units building with 7.5 GW between them, ten more in preparation, and ten fleet-mode heavy-water reactors cleared. Adds where India's thorium lies and why Homi Bhabha's 1954 plan starts with natural uranium, the size classes behind the small-reactor push, the radiation-dose and waste rules that govern a station, and what atomic energy does away from the grid — cancer care, mutation-bred crops, food irradiation, a rare-earth reference standard, semiconductor-grade boron from Talcher and Kalpakkam's hydrogen plant driven by reactor heat.
- ICAR -- Crop Varieties, Livestock Breeds, R&D and Agricultural Educationv3 · Added the 16 indigenous animal breeds registered by ICAR-NBAGR on 7 August 2026 - Periyar cattle, the Kombai dog and the Sikkimese yak among them - which take India's registered breeds to 262 (258 indigenous, four synthetic), plus the 24 August launch of an Indian-bred non-GMO popcorn maize hybrid in Andhra Pradesh.
- Digital Rupee vs Stablecoinsv3 · The CBDC-based food-subsidy transfer goes live today: Chandigarh launches PMGKAY payments as programmable digital-rupee tokens on 14 August 2026, in what official sources call the first full-fledged rollout of its kind by a Union Territory, with Dadra & Nagar Haveli launched virtually from the same event. Adds the three-stage framing of welfare delivery and who is presiding.
- India's Chandrayaan Lunar Programmev3 · Records NASA's invitation for ISRO to take part in its Moon base programme, the ninth India-US civil space working group at Bengaluru on 5-6 August 2026, and the agreement to pursue open scientific data sharing under the Artemis Accords; the whole card is also rebuilt to the current reader format.
- India in the FAIR Mega-Science Projectv1 · India's first beam catcher has reached the FAIR accelerator site in Germany, one of three such units designed by CSIR-CMERI and built in Kanpur; the card sets out what FAIR is, how India pays for it, and every component Indian industry supplies.
- Gaganyaan & Bharatiya Antariksh Stationv3 · Reset the flight schedule from the official Lok Sabha reply of 5 August 2026: the first uncrewed test flight is now targeted in the last quarter of 2026 and the first crewed mission by 2027, replacing the 2027-28 slippage reported earlier; the station is still to be operational by 2035.
- PFBR Criticality - Stage II Milestonev3 · Added the government's account of how the Kalpakkam breeder was commissioned — IGCAR's under-sodium ultrasonic imaging, the DISHA weld-inspection robot and about 90 percent indigenous manufacture — plus the two more 500 MW breeders in pre-project work there and the climb from 8,780 MW of nuclear capacity to 22,480 MW by 2031-32.
- India's Indigenous African Swine Fever Vaccinev1 · Added India's first home-grown African Swine Fever vaccine - who built it, how it works, the dosing schedule, and the crore-scale losses in Assam and Mizoram it is meant to prevent.
- Qdenga — India's First Dengue Vaccinev1 · India's drug regulator CDSCO has approved Qdenga, the country's first dengue vaccine, for people aged 4 to 60 — a live attenuated tetravalent shot already cleared in 42 countries with WHO prequalification.
- ICMR i-DRONE -- Drones for Healthcare Accessv1 · New: an ICMR i-DRONE study in Telangana finds that flying TB samples by drone cut the median diagnosis time from 15 to 5 days and average patient cost from about Rs 9,451 to roughly Rs 91.
- NavIC — India's Satellite Navigationv1 · Constellation stretched thin: only 3 of 8 working NavIC satellites still broadcast full navigation signals (Mar 2026); the second-gen NVS series with L1 and indigenous clocks is the fix.
- NISAR — The NASA-ISRO Radar Satellitev1 · NISAR in routine science operations: launched 30 Jul 2025 on GSLV-F16, the first dual-band (L+S) radar satellite images all of Earth every 12 days and streams about 85 TB/day of open data.
Reports & Indices
- World Development Report 2026v1 · Creates the card for the World Bank's World Development Report 2026 on AI: its adopt-adapt-advance framework, job and readiness findings, and the 8 October India launch.
- India's First Household Travel Survey (NHTS)v1 · New card on NSO's first household travel survey: its sample, definitions and the headline modal shares for workers, students and overnight journeys.
- Domestic Tourism Expenditure Survey 2025-26 (NSS 80th Round)v1 · New card: NSO's 2025-26 domestic tourism survey finds pilgrimage the top reason for overnight trips, business travel the costliest per trip and Uttar Pradesh the most-visited state.
- India's Employment Picture (PLFS 2025 & After)v7 · Added NSO's first district-level labour snapshot: participation sits between 40 and 80 percent in roughly 98.8 percent of districts, Surat leads the hundred most populous districts on participation at 68.6 percent and on work ratio at 67.8 percent, Darbhanga trails on both, and Ernakulam has the lowest youth NEET at 9.6 percent.
- District-Level Unincorporated Sector Estimates (ASUSE)v1 · Opened a card on the NSO's first district-level portrait of India's unincorporated non-farm economy. Built from ASUSE 2025 and covering 757 of 770 districts, it shows the top 50 districts holding nearly a third of all establishments, workers and value added; women making up at least a third of the workforce in 237 districts; and 280 districts beating the all-India GVA per worker of Rs 1,56,539. Delhi, Lakshadweep and Chandigarh get no district figures.
- NITI Aayog's Manufacturing Hub Reportv1 · NITI Aayog put out its manufacturing-hub study on 13 August 2026: 12 sectors shortlisted overall, four of them — chemicals, textiles, telecom gear and solar PV — assessed in full, with eight further sector reports still to come.
- NFHS-6 - India's Health & Family Snapshotv2 · Parliament was told how the NFHS-6 fact sheets were designed: a Technical Advisory Committee held them to harmonised key indicators, and anaemia prevalence will now be taken from a separate ICMR survey that measures haemoglobin from an intravenous draw rather than a finger prick. The fact sheets themselves were released on 29 May 2026.
- Investment Friendliness Index (IFI)v1 · Breaks down NITI Aayog's new Investment Friendliness Index, released 17 July 2026: its eight pillars, 84 indicators, four performance bands, and where each state and UT landed.
- Fiscal Health Index 2026v1 · NITI Aayog's second Fiscal Health Index (FY2023-24): Odisha tops the major states, Punjab, West Bengal and Kerala sit at the bottom, and coverage now extends to 10 NE & Himalayan states.
- Women & Men in India 2025 (Gender Data)v1 · Women & Men in India 2025 (27th ed.): sex ratio at birth 917, female higher-ed GER 30.2 tops male, rural female LFPR 45.9%; NITI credit report - women hold Rs 76 lakh crore, 36% penetration
- India in Global Indices — 2026 Trackerv1 · 2026 indices so far: India up in Happiness (116th), Corruption Perceptions (91st), Innovation (38th) and SDG (94th, highest-ever); down to 157th on Press Freedom and 115th on Peace.
- Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2025v1 · Global MPI 2025 released: India down to 16.4% multidimensionally poor (from 55.1% in 2005-06); 1.1 billion poor worldwide, now mapped against climate hazards.
- NCRB Crime in India 2024v1 · NCRB Crime in India 2024 released: overall crime down 6% (rate 418.9 per lakh), but cybercrime crosses 1 lakh cases for the first time (+18%); first full year under BNS.
- SIPRI Arms Transfers & Military Expenditurev1 · SIPRI 2026: India is the world's 2nd-largest arms importer (2021-25) and 5th-largest military spender ($92.1 bn in 2025); Russia's share of Indian arms down to 40%.
- Digital Threat Report (BFSI Sector)v1 · 2nd edition (2025-26) released: AI asymmetry named the defining BFSI cyber risk; 18-month roadmap issued
Government Schemes
- AYUSH sector and the Ministry of Ayushv8 · Adds the RIS report's workforce detail: women hold 43 percent of Ayush services jobs and more than half in organised segments; standalone clinics earn most, wellness grows fastest.
- TB Mukt Bharat — The Elimination Pushv4 · Adds JOSH Teams, launched 8 October 2026: ten-member youth squads of NCC cadets and MY Bharat volunteers, first in 55 districts; TB Mukt panchayats now 67,933 for 2026.
- eSanjeevani — National Telemedicine Servicev2 · New card: India's national telemedicine service, its two modes and developer, the 50 crore teleconsultation mark of 15 Sep 2026, and specialist OPDs at three AIIMS.
- VB-G RAM G Act, 2025 (MGNREGA's Successor)v4 · Adds the notified Schedule of Permissible Works: 375 works in four categories, 41% more than MGNREGA's 266, with disaster preparedness a separate category for the first time.
- India's Electric Mobility Pushv8 · Corrects the PM E-DRIVE outlay to ₹11,900 crore, raised by a 10 August 2026 notification; e-two-wheeler incentives now run to March 2028; 26.59 lakh EVs sold by June 2026.
- Export Promotion Missionv4 · Extends RELIEF Component II, the 95 percent ECGC cover for West Asia-bound cargo, to 31 March 2027 under Notification No. 37/2026-27.
- GOBARdhan and the Compressed Biogas Frameworkv3 · Adds the 1 October 2026 launch: Handbook, Unified GOBARdhan Portal, a 5 MMSCMD output target, pipeline and credit-guarantee terms, and 217-plus plants commissioned by August 2026.
- PMAY-Gramin — India's Rural Housing Pushv2 · Adds the scheme core (60:40 funding, ₹1.20 lakh unit aid, 2024-29 phase), the 12 August 2026 status, and Andhra Pradesh's 3 lakh houses and 3D-printing pilot.
- PM-SETU - Industry-Led ITI Upgradationv3 · Marks PM-SETU's first year: approved plans reach ₹3,446 crore across 14 clusters, 850 ITIs identified, nationwide rollout cleared; adds the launch date, NSTI partner countries and new courses.
- India's Coastal Mission (NCM 2.0)v1 · Adds the National Coastal Mission: NCM 2.0's ₹767 crore outlay, coverage, five components and the machinery its 30 September 2026 guidelines set up.
- Scheme Milestones — 2026 Trackerv8 · Completed the fully-literate list: ten States and UTs, adding Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh and Jammu & Kashmir to the six States and Ladakh.
- Green Energy Corridor — Transmission for Renewablesv1 · Adds the Green Energy Corridor: Cabinet cleared Phase III on 30 September 2026 — ₹1,86,405 crore to evacuate 135 GW and add 50 GWh of battery storage by 2032-33.
- Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses (Pulses Self-Reliance Mission)v3 · Adds the ₹5,547.99 crore Price Support Scheme procurement approved for Kharif 2026-27 in Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana, and explains PM-AASHA's three components.
- Livestock Insurance under the National Livestock Missionv1 · New card: livestock insurance under NLM — 15 percent farmer premium, 10-cattle-unit cap, claim deadline, and the portal DAHD launched on 28 September 2026.
- RDI Scheme — Rs 1 Lakh Crore for Private R&Dv6 · Adds the fourth named RDI Fund award: Rs 37.51 crore to Multi Nano Sense Technologies, Nagpur, for an indigenous MEMS multi-gas sensor taken from TRL 4 to TRL 9.
- Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban)v1 · New card: SBM-U 2.0's outlay, funding shares and Garbage Free targets, plus the 50 PRAGATI-50 model cities and the Durgapur sanitation test bed launched on 29 September.
- ULLAS — New India Literacy Programmev1 · New card: ULLAS's funding, five components, the 95% full-literacy benchmark, the ten fully literate States/UTs and the 29 Sep 2026 learner print.
- Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana and the fisheries scheme familyv7 · Adds PM-MKSSY's aquaculture insurance incentive, claim deadlines and uptake, and the 5-tonne productivity target; corrects the SC/ST/women top-up; trims the card to its core (R-182, R-183).
- Nasha Mukt Yuva Abhiyan — The 100-Week Youth Campaignv6 · Added the Prime Minister's 27 September Mann Ki Baat call and health camps at 400-plus locations; trimmed the card to its exam core, keeping NMBA's figures (R-182).
- Ayushman Bharat Digital Missionv3 · Marked five years of the mission: ABHA IDs passed 97.8 crore and linked health records 121 crore by 25 September 2026, and Arogya Manthan 2026 launched a Secure Data Environment for vetted research on de-identified health data, plus a mobile app for the providers registry.
- Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY — India's Hospital Coverv3 · Added the framework for auto-adjudicating PM-JAY claims, launched at Arogya Manthan 2026 on 25 September 2026, and the scheme's portability across States, which matters most to migrant workers; the Secure Data Environment launched alongside is on the ABDM card.
- DDU-GKY — Rural Youth Skillingv4 · Added the October 2026 start of DDU-GKY 2.0 training for about 70,000 youth in 2,015 batches across 24 States and UTs, the national 2.0 target of over 9 lakh for 2026-28, and the scheme's PPP delivery through NSQF-aligned courses.
- Make in India — The Manufacturing Push Since 2014v1 · Marks twelve years of Make in India: DPIIT's toolkit from PLI to GatiShakti, US$843 billion of cumulative FDI since 2014-15, PLI results to June 2026 and the schemes added since December 2025 for chips, phones, rare-earth magnets and industrial parks.
- ELDERLINE 14567 — Senior Citizens' Helplinev1 · New card on ELDERLINE 14567, the free senior citizens' helpline: part of the AVYAY scheme, launched on 1 October 2021, live in 32 States and UTs, and past 29 lakh calls, 8.67 lakh of them actionable, by September 2026.
- Khelo India Scheme, 2026-31v3 · Brings the MY Bharat membership figure up to date: more than 3 crore as of 23 Sep 2026.
- MPMS: India's Incentive for Making Mobile Phonesv3 · Added the latest status: India now makes about 32-33 crore phones a year, meeting roughly 99.2% of domestic demand, with five major global brands building here. The ₹62,500 crore outlay, 2.25-5% incentives and ₹39 lakh crore target are unchanged.
- National Cooperation Policy 2025v8 · Refreshed Bharat Taxi's scale to the Ministry of Cooperation's 23 September count — over 10 lakh Sarathis, around 40 lakh passengers, about 20,000 rides a day and more than ₹100 crore paid to drivers in six months — and added its formal launch in five Uttar Pradesh cities.
- MY Bharat (Mera Yuva Bharat) — Youth Platformv1 · New card: MY Bharat has crossed 3 crore registered youth in under three years, and the Viksit Bharat Quiz that opens VBYLD 2027 takes entries until 30 September 2026.
- NAMASTE Scheme (Mechanised Sanitation)v7 · NAMASTE has now validated 90,186 sewer and septic-tank workers in every State and Union Territory, and profiled 2,51,756 waste pickers in 34 of them, as on 22 September 2026. The delivery figures came with them: 87,008 protective-equipment kits, 753 sets of emergency sanitation safety equipment, and Rs 34.16 crore of capital subsidy to 983 workers under the Swachhta Udyami Yojana.
- Domestic LPG Subsidy: Aadhaar Authenticationv1 · New card: biometric Aadhaar authentication becomes compulsory for subsidised LPG refills from 1 October 2026, with 89.9 percent of active consumers already covered.
- PM-AJAY: Merged Scheme for Scheduled Castesv1 · New card: PM-AJAY's three components and the schemes they replaced, with the September 2026 count of 16,022 Adarsh Gram villages and over ₹11,186 crore released since 2014-15.
- Rozgar Mela — the Centre's Recruitment Drivev1 · Added the 20th Rozgar Mela: over 51,000 appointment letters on 19 September 2026, taking the drive past 12.75 lakh letters in 20 rounds.
- NADCP: India's FMD and Brucellosis Vaccination Drivev2 · Moved the story from vaccination to proof: a three-day DAHD-WOAH workshop in New Delhi validated nine priority States' plans for FMD-free zones, DAHD issued guidelines for FMD-free compartments, and the outbreak count stood at 20 up to August 2026 against 40 in all of 2025, with 2030 the target for FMD freedom.
- PM Vishwakarma Artisan Support Schemev2 · Marked the scheme's third year at Kolkata's Dhono Dhanyo Auditorium — the MSME Ministry's first PM Vishwakarma programme in West Bengal, which joined in May 2026 and has since drawn more than 7 lakh applications — with certificates, toolkits and ₹1 lakh cheques handed to artisans.
- DAY-NRLM — Rural Livelihoods Missionv3 · Two September moves widen the mission's brief. Its seventh Gender Samvaad, on 11 September 2026, drew over 6 lakh participants on women's leadership in livelihoods. A day short of a week later the department signed with PFRDA to raise 'Pension Sakhis', who will take pension awareness and National Pension System enrolment to rural doorsteps through the SHG network.
- HPV Vaccination for Adolescent Girlsv1 · India has crossed 80 lakh HPV vaccine doses since the campaign began in February 2026, with Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram and Uttar Pradesh covering all the 14-year-old girls they had identified.
- PM-KMY Farmer Pension Schemev1 · Opened a card on the Centre's farmer pension scheme, which turned seven on 12 September 2026: 24,96,252 farmers enrolled by 6 February 2026, Rs 540.66 crore spent since 2019, and Haryana and Bihar well ahead of every other state on take-up. The card also sets out the matching contribution ladder, the exclusion list and how a farmer can pay the premium out of PM-KISAN money.
- Incentives for Piped Cooking Gas at Homev1 · Opened a card on the Centre's new incentive for piped cooking gas. From 1 September 2026 a city gas firm earns 200 standard cubic metres of cheap domestic APM gas for every extra billed household connection, which is expected to cut the payback on a connection from about ten years to roughly three. India had 1.74 crore piped-gas homes across 309 authorised Geographical Areas when the scheme was announced on 18 August 2026.
- Post-Matric Scholarship for Scheduled Castesv2 · Puts the money on the record: ₹46,581.54 crore of central assistance since FY 2014-15, ₹6,186.95 crore for 47.53 lakh students in FY 2025-26, and the pre-matric companion's ₹4,893.03 crore. Adds the verification stack behind the transfers, and the sister schemes - SHREYAS at ₹3,509.39 crore and PM-YASASVI at ₹15,555.53 crore.
- HIV/AIDS Control in India — NACO's 95-95-95 Pushv1 · Explains the 95-95-95 targets and NACO's four-step MAS district ladder, with Saitual the first district in Mizoram to reach Surakshit status.
- PM SHRI Schools — Exemplar Schools under NEP 2020v1 · Explains PM SHRI - the exemplar-school scheme under NEP 2020, its ₹27,360 crore project cost and the 13,092 schools selected by July 2026.
- Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 — India's Nutrition Missionv5 · Opened the ninth Poshan Maah: launched at Varanasi on 9 September 2026 and running to 8 October, with the network now put past 14 lakh Anganwadi Centres and ten years of PMMVY payouts crossing ₹21,000 crore.
- PARIVARTAN Schemev2 · Spells the scheme out in full: PARIVARTAN is the Programme for Accelerated Renewal and Incentivization of Vehicle Assets, its second half reading Reducing Transport Air-Pollution and Network Emission. It is what the vehicles must be replaced with that changes here - BS-VI, CNG or electric, not BS-VI or electric alone - and the vehicles being retired are now stated as BS-IV and older. The Housing and Urban Affairs ministry launched it as a time-bound fleet-modernisation scheme for the NCR.
- ECLGS 5.0 — Emergency Credit Guarantees for Businessv1 · Explains ECLGS 5.0, the May 2026 credit guarantee window for MSMEs, other firms and airlines — its cover, caps, interest ceilings and the ₹2,50,024 crore already guaranteed.
- Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs)v1 · New card on Krishi Vigyan Kendras, the district-level centres that take farm science to the field. The Agriculture Minister's 7 September 2026 review set two deadlines - infrastructure and logistics upgraded at 300 priority KVKs by March 2027, and an Incubation-cum-Skill Centre in every KVK by December 2028 - alongside cleared reforms to KVK pay and promotion, and a push on States to fill vacancies and release funds in season.
- Startup India - DPIIT's Ecosystem Pushv2 · Added the September 2026 push to take the ecosystem past the metros. At the 6th RISE Conclave in Kolkata the science minister said more than 50 to 60 percent of India's startups are not metro firms, asked scientific institutions to travel to Tier-2 and Tier-3 innovators, and set out a lab-to-market model that seats the commercial partner beside the laboratory from day one. The conclave counted about 150 startups, eight MoUs and four technology transfers.
- Vibrant Villages Programme (VVP-I and VVP-II)v1 · Sets out both phases of the Vibrant Villages Programme — the ₹11,639 crore combined outlay, what VVP-I and VVP-II each cover, and the 1,248 projects sanctioned so far.
- Child Labour in India — the NCPCR Rescue Campaignv1 · NCPCR's three-month national drive rescued more than 3,800 children from child labour and led to over 575 FIRs, with rehabilitation and a return to school tracked afterwards.
- Cooperative Grain Storage Plan (PACS Godowns)v1 · Cooperative godowns have moved past the pilot stage: 313 village societies had finished storage by July 2026, adding more than 1.80 lakh tonnes of capacity, with 1,012 societies picked for the next round.
- Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari - Community Water Rechargev1 · The recharge drive has crossed 1.58 crore structures as of 3 September 2026 and has swallowed the Catch the Rain campaign; the Prime Minister used the first water summit to ask for a Jal Utsav and better water data.
- India's Malaria Elimination Drivev1 · India's malaria cases and deaths have fallen by nearly 80 percent since 2015, and only 33 high-burden districts are left, the Health Ministry's 2030-elimination review found.
- PM Fasal Bima Yojana — Crop Insurancev2 · India crop insurance scheme, ten seasons in: ₹2.06 lakh crore paid in claims, ₹12,200 crore budgeted for 2026-27, satellite and weather-station yield estimation inside the claim process, and Bihar returning from Rabi 2026-27.
- Bal Vivah Mukt Bharatv2 · Union Minister Annpurna Devi renewed the pledge in August 2026: ending child marriage is a national commitment, and every citizen should report a suspected case on Child Helpline 1098. The card is restructured to the full reader contract - the law, the 2024 Supreme Court framework, the 100-day drive and the Balod milestone all stay.
- BHAVYA Rasayan - Chemical Parks Schemev2 · Added the 24 August CEO Roundtable setting a USD 1 trillion chemicals-sector goal for 2040 and the first CHEMCONNECT meet at IIT Madras, where DCPC's 18 Centres of Excellence showcased technologies.
- Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0v5 · States and UTs have been asked to plan JJM 2.0 and SBM-G 2.0 works together inside the VB-G RAM G Act's Viksit Gram Panchayat Plans, with water security as one of the Act's four work verticals and every asset geo-tagged on the national rural infrastructure stack. The tenth Sujal Gram Samvad (25 August 2026) put four panchayats' community-run, user-charge-funded supply on record. The 2019 baseline of 3.23 crore households (16.71 percent) is back as its own pointer.
- PM SVANidhi — Credit for Street Vendorsv3 · Marks one year of the restructured scheme: 78.68 lakh vendors, over 1.18 crore loans and ₹19,171 crore lent by 27 August 2026, with 10.56 lakh new vendors and 21.86 lakh loans worth ₹6,294 crore in the revamp's first year. Adds the 27,077 RuPay credit cards approved, the Digital Lending Platform and Vendor Migration Module, the 50 planned Street Food Hubs at up to ₹4 crore each, the September 2026 Lok Kalyan Melas, and the latest digital-payment and SVANidhi se Samriddhi counts.
- India's Tribal Development Schemesv3 · Added the Mysuru National Conclave on Tribal Languages and Museums (24–26 August 2026): Adi Vaani upgraded with an iOS app and five new languages, the ministry's 'Jago' AI assistant launched, an MoU signed with CIIL, Karnataka's Jenukuruba primers released, and 11 Tribal Freedom Fighter Museums sanctioned across 10 States with four already open.
- Farm Mechanisation and Digital Agriculture Frameworkv1 · Pulls the mechanisation and agri-technology stack into one card after Parliament was told no separate national mechanisation policy exists: the SMAM subsidy ladder, DGCES now in 23 States and UTs, and the satellite, drone and AI systems behind crop estimation.
- Student Mental Health and Suicide Preventionv1 · Sets out how India supports student mental health, after a Lok Sabha reply on student suicides: the crime bureau's reports as the data of record, Manodarpan and school counsellors, UGC and coaching-centre rules, campus counselling centres, and 53 Tele-MANAS cells that have handled over 43.25 lakh calls.
- PMAY-Urban — India's City Housing Missionv1 · PMAY-Urban has crossed 1.25 crore houses sanctioned and 1 crore delivered, a crore of them owned by women; the 8th sanctioning committee cleared 2.09 lakh more on 6 August 2026, taking PMAY-U 2.0 past 18.38 lakh sanctions across its four verticals.
- Mission Shakti — Women's Safety and Empowermentv1 · Sets out Mission Shakti's reach as told to Lok Sabha on 7 August 2026: 991 of 1,033 One Stop Centres running, 15.20 lakh women assisted since 2015, and the 181 helpline past 1.04 crore women by 30 June 2026.
- India's Organ Donation and Transplant Networkv1 · Recorded India's best transplant year yet — 20,138 in 2025 — and added the four tools launched on Organ Donation Day: the Jug Jug Jiyo campaign, the e-प्रत्यारोपण platform, a NOTTO app and two national guidelines.
- PM-KISAN Farm Income Supportv1 · Cabinet cleared five more years of PM-KISAN, with ₹3.15 lakh crore for 2026-27 to 2030-31 and the ₹6,000-a-year, three-instalment design carried forward.
- PM-SSY — India's Floating Solar Schemev1 · Cabinet approved a ₹5,070 crore floating-solar scheme: 5,000 MW on water bodies with 10,000 MWh of paired storage, to be sanctioned between 2026-27 and 2030-31.
- PM-VBRY Employment Incentive Schemev1 · PM-VBRY finished its first year on 1 August 2026: over 72 lakh first-time workers formalised, nearly a third of them women, and more than 15 lakh already paid.
- Samudra Manthan Offshore Exploration Schemev1 · Cabinet cleared Samudra Manthan: ₹84,084 crore to de-risk deepwater oil and gas drilling up to March 2031, with the state meeting as much as half of each well's cost.
- Bihar's Kosi-Mechi River Linkv1 · Bihar's Kosi-Mechi canal link is 8.5% built, with ₹3,652.56 crore of central assistance behind it and March 2029 as the finish date.
- PM Vidyalaxmi — Collateral-Free Education Loansv1 · Sets out PM Vidyalaxmi as it stands: 1,425 listed institutions, a 75% credit guarantee on loans up to ₹7.5 lakh, 3% interest subvention below ₹8 lakh family income, and 67,728 loans disbursed in FY 2025-26.
- Modified UDAN (UDAN 2.0)v2 · Alliance Air flew NAMO Airport, Daman's first-ever service (a Daman-Delhi flight) on 16 July 2026, giving the Union Territory its first direct air link. The card is also rebuilt with fresh Modified-UDAN detail: the 4 July 2026 launch, refreshed UDAN totals (679 routes and over 1.68 crore passengers as of 15 July 2026), India's operational airports up from 74 to 165, and all five funding components in full.
- National Investment Policy for Urea-2026 (NIPU-2026)v1 · Cabinet clears NIPU-2026 to pull PSU and private money into new gas-based urea units, offering a 12-16% return band and rupee cost-conversion after four years, in a push for urea self-sufficiency.
- Atal Pension Yojana — Continued to 2030-31v1 · Cabinet cleared APY's continuation to FY 2030-31 (21 Jan 2026); over 8.66 crore subscribers; ₹1,000-5,000 guaranteed pension for the unorganised sector.
- BHAVYA — Bharat Audyogik Vikas Yojnav1 · Cabinet-cleared BHAVYA (₹33,660 cr for 100 plug-and-play parks); DPIIT issued operational guidelines on 23 May 2026, with the first 50 parks to be picked by challenge.
- PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojanav1 · PM-DDKY launched 11 Oct 2025 with Rs 24,000 crore outlay; 36-scheme convergence across 100 low-productivity districts, tracked on 117 KPIs.
- PM-KUSUM & Agri-Photovoltaicsv1 · PM-KUSUM 2.0 in the works: a proposed 10 GW Agri-PV component (crops plus solar on one field), with the FY2026-27 outlay set at Rs 5,000 crore.
- PM MITRA Textile Parksv1 · Warangal opens as India's first functional PM MITRA park (10 May 2026); all seven sites locked, Rs 4,445 cr outlay to 2027-28.
- SARTHAK-PDSv1 · SARTHAK-PDS cleared: Rs.25,530 cr umbrella scheme to 2031 merges foodgrain-movement/FPS-margin aid with SMART PDS for 81.35 cr NFSA beneficiaries.
- Urban Challenge Fundv1 · UCF operational: Rs 1 lakh crore fund, 25% central cap, guidelines released (Apr 2026); about Rs 4 lakh crore of urban investment targeted by 2030-31.
Defence & Security
- Military Exercises - 2026 Trackerv23 · Counts SAREX-2026, the Coast Guard's 12th national maritime search-and-rescue exercise, held off Paradip on 8 October; the tally rises to 24.
- India's Fleet Support Shipsv2 · Adds the class's indigenous content, over 82 percent by the Navy's count, and notes Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh was chief guest at Surya's 6 October launch.
- Defence Budget & Aatmanirbharta Drivev15 · Adds HAL Koraput's 2,000th aero-engine with new AL-31FP and Shakti engine capacity, a Rs 661.50 crore BrahMos naval fire-control contract, and the first Fleet Support Ship launch.
- DRDO's Emerging Technologies - Hypersonics, Lasers & High-Altitude Systemsv2 · Adds DRDO's October 2026 firsts - the HAPS airship's 21 km flight and the AHAP parachute's maiden jump at Nyoma - retitles the card, and names DRDO's current chairman.
- Jammu & Kashmir After Article 370v10 · Adds the neutralising of LeT commander Musa in Budgam, completing a group of four, and India's rejection of Türkiye's UNGA remarks; restructures the card to the core-and-log anatomy.
- PRAHAAR — National Counter-Terrorism Policyv5 · Adds the Extradition Portal launched at the 28 Sep 2026 PRAHAAR conference, 288 fugitives returned from 36 countries and the Shahzad Bhatti Network's UAPA ban; card restructured core-first.
- Tarang Shakti 2026 — IAF's Multinational Air Exercisev1 · New card: Tarang Shakti 2026, the IAF's multilateral air exercise at Jodhpur (26 Sep–12 Oct) with seven foreign air forces, themed Power in Partnership.
- India–Japan Defence Cooperationv3 · Records the end of Veer Guardian-2026: the Indian and Japanese air forces closed their fourteen-day exercise at Air Force Station Jodhpur on 22 September 2026, after close-in air combat and multi-aircraft missions flown by Rafale, Su-30MKI and Tejas jets with Japan's F-2A.
- RAKSHA - India's Defence Diplomacy Documentv2 · Tracks the first fortnight of defence diplomacy since RAKSHA: the Army chief's Russia visit (16-18 September), the Defence Secretary's meeting with Vietnam's deputy defence minister on the BRICS margins with the next Defence Policy Dialogue set for Aero India 2027, the VIMARSH DRDO-industry meet of 15 September - nine technology-transfer licences to 13 firms and a framework to share DRDO source code - and India's protest to Pakistan over a naval collision that breached the 1991 military-notice agreement.
- Aero India (Bengaluru Air Show)v1 · Dated the next Aero India: the 16th edition runs from 8 to 12 February 2027 at Air Force Station Yelahanka in Bengaluru, with exhibitor and visitor registration open from 3 September 2026.
- India's Left-Wing Extremism Endgamev3 · The Vice-President put Chhattisgarh's turnaround on the record at the AIIMS Raipur convocation on 2 September, calling the decades-old Naxal problem ended and crediting political resolve, a hard security line and development-first governance; no new district or casualty figures were given, so the zero-district ledger stands.
- ASW Shallow Water Craft (Mahe class)v3 · Mangrol, the third of eight Mahe-class submarine-hunters from Cochin Shipyard, was delivered to the Navy on 21 August 2026 — added its Gujarat namesake, its minesweeper predecessor retired in 2004, its waterjet propulsion and weapons fit, and where it sits in the 16-craft programme.
- Red Fort Bombing and the AQIS Attributionv1 · Names the group a UN Security Council expert panel now blames for the Red Fort suicide car bombing of November 2025, in which 11 people died: Al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent. The same panel had reported a Jaish-e-Mohammed link in February 2026, so the attribution has moved. Note what kind of statement this is - a panel's finding reported to the Council, not an official Indian attribution.
- AFSPA in the Northeast - The Long Rollbackv1 · HM says 80%+ of the Northeast is AFSPA-free, targets near-full withdrawal 'next year'; six-month disturbed-area extensions continue in Manipur, parts of Nagaland and Arunachal.
- Agni-5 & India's MIRV Capabilityv1 · Advanced Agni missile with MIRV flight-tested 8 May 2026 over the Indian Ocean, reaffirming the multi-warhead capability first shown by Mission Divyastra (Mar 2024).
- AMCA - India's Fifth-Gen Fighterv1 · AMCA execution model approved (27 May 2025) opening the 5th-gen fighter to private bidders; Mk2 Safran-GTRE engine deal awaiting final CCS clearance; first flight targeted ~2028-29.
- BrahMos Goes Globalv1 · BrahMos exports expand: Philippines (2022) remains the first customer; the July 2026 India-Indonesia joint statement elevates BrahMos cooperation, with defence press reporting a ~$630m deal whose value is not officially confirmed.
- C-295 - First Made-in-India Military Transportv1 · First India-built C-295 rolled out and flew from the Tata-Airbus Vadodara line in 2026; 40 aircraft to be built in India under the Rs 21,935-crore, 56-aircraft programme.
- Chief of Defence Staff — 2026 Transitionv1 · Gen N.S. Raja Subramani took charge as India's 3rd Chief of Defence Staff on 31 May 2026, succeeding Gen Anil Chauhan.
- India-US 10-Year Defence Frameworkv1 · 10-year US-India Major Defence Partnership framework signed (31 Oct 2025, Kuala Lumpur); F414 co-production and drone deals in train; Feb 2026 trade deal cut tariffs to 18%.
- Mission Sudarshan Chakrav1 · Mission Sudarshan Chakra: PM-announced indigenous multi-layered air-defence shield targeted by 2035; DRDO leading, advanced weapon complex inaugurated at DRDL Hyderabad (Jun 2026).
Summits & Conferences
- India-Africa Engagement: IAFS-IV and the Bilateral Tracksv3 · Adds the 7 October India-Ghana MoUs from EAM Jaishankar's visit: Zoological Survey of India with the University of Ghana, ICAR with Ghana's CSIR-Crops Research Institute.
- Kautilya Economic Conclavev3 · Records the 5th Kautilya Economic Conclave as held in New Delhi on 3-5 October 2026; External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar spoke at its closing session.
- India at the G7 and G20v7 · Adds the Milwaukee outcome, a consensus G20 statement on weaponising food; India's stand on MFN, subsidies and forced labour; and the UK's 2027 G20 presidency.
- UN Crime Congress 2026 — the 15th Congress, Abu Dhabiv2 · Adds the Congress's outcome: the Abu Dhabi Declaration, adopted by acclamation on 26 September, its cybercrime and digital-justice commitments, and the Pledge4Justice drive.
- India Energy Weekv1 · Created the India Energy Week card: the fifth edition is scheduled for Kolkata in January 2027, its first stop in eastern India, with the theme and organisers.
- BRICS 2026 - India's Presidencyv23 · Added the BRICS Theatre Festival, set by the Ministry of Culture in New Delhi for 12-14 October 2026 and themed Shared Stories, Shared Futures, and the Jaipur Declaration of the BRICS Tourism Ministers' Meeting in August, distinct from the trade ministers' Jaipur Consensus. Dropped a repeated paragraph on the summit-day office closures and a dated ABHA ID count that the digital health card tracks.
- The Quad in 2026v5 · Added the Quad-at-Sea Ship Observer Mission: on 25 September 2026 the Indian Coast Guard ship Shaunak sailed from Chennai for Perth with six sea riders - two officers each from India and Japan, one each from Australia and the US - in line with the foreign ministers' joint statement of 26 May 2026. The card is also trimmed to its exam core, with attendee names dropped.
- SCO Summits: Tianjin 2025 to Bishkek 2026v8 · Added the SCO trade ministers' 25th meeting at Dushanbe on 17 September 2026, where India pressed lighter customs formalities, paperless trade and steadier supply chains in electronics, pharmaceuticals and critical minerals. Ministers adopted a joint statement, agreed an Action Plan for 2026 to 2030 that the Council of Heads of Government must still approve, cleared a working group on the creative economy, and sent the next meeting to Uzbekistan in 2027.
- Circular Economy Forum at Gandhinagarv1 · India opened the World Circular Economy Forum at Gandhinagar on 15 September 2026 - the forum's first hosting in South Asia - with the Union Environment Minister and the Gujarat Chief Minister inaugurating it before 3,600-plus participants from 62 countries and 135 exhibitors. India's Extended Producer Responsibility frameworks now carry more than 83,000 producers and 4,802 recyclers, with nearly 482.24 lakh metric tonnes processed, and India has become Co-Chair of the 10 YFP Board that met on the sidelines.
- Bharat Tex (Global Textiles Expo)v5 · The expo's federation signed a multi-year memorandum with Première Vision SA in Paris on 2 September 2026, turning July's letter of intent into joint export promotion, sustainability work and a crafts showcase due in January 2027.
- India at the WTO: Fisheries Pact, MC14 and Trade Reviewv2 · India accepted the WTO Fisheries Subsidies Agreement on 20 July 2026 as the 123rd member, ending its long holdout; and its 8th Trade Policy Review opened in Geneva on 21 and 23 July, spotlighting record USD 863.1 billion exports.
- BIMSTEC - Bangkok Vision 2030v2 · Added the 5th BIMSTEC National Security Advisers' Meeting (New Delhi, July 2026): NSA Ajit Doval urged decisive cooperation on terrorism, cyber and maritime threats, valuing the bloc at ~1.7 billion people and a ~USD 5 trillion GDP and tying it to India's Neighbourhood First, Act East and MAHASAGAR visions; the card is also restructured for faster reading.
- India AI Impact Summit 2026v1 · Delhi summit concludes: 92-nation India AI Impact Declaration adopted, 13 frontier-model firms sign New Delhi commitments, USD 200bn+ in AI investment pledged.
Places in News
- Mega Infrastructure — 2026 Trackerv22 · Records the Dibrugarh-Dhaka methanol voyage as sailed on 5 Oct 2026, Dibrugarh's first foreign-bound cargo since Independence, and glosses National Waterway-2.
- Ladakh's Standardised Place Namesv1 · Creates the Ladakh place-names card: the 28 features named on the Survey of India map on 2 October 2026, grouped by type, with the naming authority and mapping agency.
Art & Culture
- Major Anniversaries -- 2026 Trackerv9 · Adds two October jubilees: UCIL began its Diamond Jubilee Year on 4 October, and Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff turned 25 on Tri-Service Day, 1 October.
- India's Classical Languagesv1 · Creates the classical-languages card: the eleven with years, the LEC and its criteria, who funds promotion, and the five Centres of Excellence approved on 3 October 2026.
- Maratha Military Landscapes — 44th World Heritage Sitev2 · Replaces the stale 'still 44' line with India's tally of 45 since Sarnath (July 2026) and trims the card to a nine-row capsule and a dated log.
- India's World Heritage Sites and Tentative Listv1 · Opens a home card for India's World Heritage tally: 45 inscribed properties, a 78-site Tentative List after five September 2026 additions, and how a candidate becomes a listed site.
- PB-SHABD: Prasar Bharati's News Feed Servicev1 · New card on PB-SHABD, Prasar Bharati's free multimedia news feed for newspapers, channels and digital publishers: 15 languages, five formats, 3,600 users and free access until March 2027.
- WAVES OTT: Prasar Bharati's Streaming Platformv2 · Added who runs WAVES OTT - Prasar Bharati, a statutory body under the Prasar Bharati Act, 1990, chaired by Prasoon Joshi - and how it differs from PB-SHABD, the broadcaster's free news feed for newsrooms. The user base holds at 1.2 crore, with 1.5 crore+ downloads.
- India Cine Hub: Single-Window Film Permitsv1 · Explains India Cine Hub, the single-window portal that NFDC runs for film-shooting permission: what one application now covers, the film-visa and co-production routes, the move into live-event clearances, and the size of the sector it serves.
- India's Cultural Diplomacy Machineryv1 · Sets out how India projects culture abroad: the Global Engagement Scheme's four arms, Cultural Exchange Programmes with 98 countries, the ICCR's centres overseas, the upgraded Indian Culture Portal, and the CCRT and Sangeet Natak Akademi schemes that pay students to train in classical dance.
- GI Tags — 2025-26 Trackerv2 · Adds the first sea-route export of a GI-tagged product from Bihar: APEDA sent 18 tonnes of Mithila Makhana from Bihta to Australia on 8 August 2026, earning Darbhanga growers about 18 percent above market rates — and the whole tracker is restructured into scannable rows with a stat capsule.
- Sarnath - India's 45th World Heritage Propertyv1 · Sarnath is on the World Heritage List: the committee's 48th session in Busan inscribed it on 25 July 2026 as India's 45th property, under criteria (iii) and (vi), in a two-part serial listing covering the Chaukhandi Stupa and the excavated remains at Varanasi.
- Gita & Natyashastra in UNESCO's Memory of the Worldv1 · Bhagavad Gita and Natyashastra manuscripts (held at BORI, Pune) inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register on 17 Apr 2025, taking India to 14 entries on the international register.
- The Piprahwa Relics Returnv1 · Piprahwa Buddha relics repatriated (30 Jul 2025) after Sotheby's Hong Kong auction was halted; Godrej-backed return, now on public display in India.