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PM GatiShakti Turns Five: How a Digital Map Is Changing Infrastructure PlanningEconomics IMF Raises India's Growth Forecast to 7%: What the World Economic Outlook Says and Why It MattersEconomics Retail Inflation Hits 5.54% in September 2026: Onion Prices, Rural Stress and the Government's Price ToolsEconomics

Melting Glaciers and Thawing Permafrost: Why the Himalayas Need a New Development ModelEnvironment & Ecology Retail Inflation Rises to 5.54% in September: Food, Oil and a Weak Rupee Push Prices Up After the RBI's Rate HikeEconomics Firecracker Curbs: Supreme Court Seeks a Balance Between Religious Sentiment and Public HealthEnvironment & Ecology Over 3.85 Lakh RTI Cases Pending in Information Commissions: What the 2025-26 Report Card ShowsPolity & Governance Supreme Court Asks Why the Trade Margin Cap Should Stop at Cancer MedicinesPolity & Governance UK Trade Mission Brings Over £1 Billion in Deals as India and the UK Agree to Track How CETA Is UsedInternational Relations GST Decriminalisation: Centre and States to Frame Rules for Pending Arrest Cases, IMS to Become MandatoryEconomics 57th GST Council Reforms: Focus Shifts to Putting Them into Practice with the StatesEconomics Karnataka High Court Strikes Down SC/ST Quota Hike: The 50% Ceiling Is a Binding Constitutional RulePolity & Governance India-UK JETCO Meets for the First Time Since the Trade Deal Came into Force: £1 Billion in New DealsEconomics Karnataka High Court: Reservation Must Ensure "Adequate", Not "Proportionate", RepresentationPolity & Governance Retail Inflation at 5.54%: How a Low Base and Costlier Food Pushed Prices to a 21-Month HighEconomics PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana Turns One: 100 Farm Districts Told to Show Results in FY27Economics Study Finds Most FPOs Need Outside Experts to Reach MarketsEconomics Lakshadweep Declared a Fully Literate Union Territory Under ULLASSocial Issues EU's Carbon Border Tax (CBAM) Is Now in Force: Why Indian Steel MSMEs Feel the PressureEconomics India's Trade Deals Could Add $140 Billion to GDP by 2035: What the New Study SaysEconomics Supreme Court Seeks Balance Between Faith and Public Health on Firecrackers in Delhi-NCREnvironment & Ecology Supreme Court Petition Seeks Election Commission Records and an Independent Audit of the SIRPolity & Governance Supreme Court Petition Seeks Halt to the SIR and an Independent Audit of Voter Deletions: Natural Justice, Article 32 and the Election CommissionPolity & Governance Western Ghats ESA: Seventh Draft Notification Faces Objections from the Six StatesEnvironment & Ecology Retail Inflation Climbs to 5.54% in September 2026: Food and Fuel Push Prices UpEconomics India's Renewable Power Crosses 100 Billion Units in a Quarter as Coal Stocks at Power Plants FallEnvironment & Ecology Retail Inflation Rises to 5.54% in September: Highest Since the New CPI Series BeganEconomics Retail Inflation Rises to 5.54% in September 2026: Food Prices, Base Effect and What It Means for the RBIEconomics RBI Tightens Forex Derivative Rules to Ease Pressure on the Rupee: What Changed and WhyEconomics IPCC Deadlocked Over the Timeline of Its Next Climate Reports: The Inclusivity Debate ExplainedEnvironment & Ecology Inflation Stays Above the RBI's 4% Target for a Fourth Month: Oil, Wholesale Prices and the Inflation Targeting TestEconomics Retail Inflation Rises to 5.54% in September 2026: Food Prices Push CPI to a Near Two-Year HighEconomics Supreme Court Says It Has Neither Approved Nor Disapproved the New Form 6 for Voter RegistrationPolity & Governance INS Mangrol Joins the Navy: A Home-Built Submarine Hunter for India's Shallow Coastal WatersInternal Security Navy Commissions Mangrol, Third Mahe-Class Anti-Submarine Shallow Water Craft: Coastal Submarine Hunting and Defence IndigenisationInternal Security New Deputy Election Commissioner Appointed: How Officers Reach the Election Commission and the Central Staffing SchemePolity & Governance

Wild Buffaloes Return to Madhya Pradesh After About a Century: Reintroduction in Kanha Tiger ReserveEnvironment & Ecology TRISHNA: Indo-French Thermal Satellite for Water Management Nears LaunchScience & Technology Draft National Steel Policy: India Aims for 604 Million Tonnes of Capacity and Cleaner Steel by 2047Economics CEA's White Paper on AI and India's Workforce: Who Gains, Who Is ExposedEconomics Katchatheevu: Sri Lanka Points to India's Stand Before the Supreme CourtInternational Relations Delimitation, Lok Sabha Expansion and the Election Commission Row: What Stands in the WayPolity & Governance National Steel Policy: Vision 2047 Targets 505 MT Steel Demand and 604 MT CapacityEconomics Private Companies to Add 30 GW of Nuclear Power by 2047: What the SHANTI Act Opens UpScience & Technology Kerala High Court Directs Centre to Make the Data Protection Board Functional Within Eight WeeksPolity & Governance No Detention Except by Law: Supreme Court Seeks Compliance Report on Its Earlier Order, Issues Contempt NoticesPolity & Governance Supreme Court's Directions on Peaceful Protest and Free Movement in Delhi: Balancing Rights and Public OrderPolity & Governance Tele-MANAS Crosses 48 Lakh Calls in Four Years as WHO Flags Gaps in Mental HealthcareSocial Issues Parliamentary Panel on NTA Reforms: No Rallies on Exam Days, Late-Entry Rule and a Separate Window for FormalitiesSocial Issues Pakistan Imposes Emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: How Pakistan's Emergency Provisions Compare with India's President's RuleInternational Relations Private Sector Expected to Add 30 GW of Nuclear Power by 2047: What It Means for India's 100 GW GoalScience & Technology Draft National Steel Policy: 604 Million Tonnes of Capacity and Lower Emissions by 2047Economics India's Water Crisis Is Becoming a Farm Crisis: Micro-Irrigation, Groundwater and Smarter CroppingEnvironment & Ecology Biofortified Crops: How India Can Move from Calorie Security to Nutrition SecurityEconomics Kuki-Naga Clashes in Manipur's Hill Districts Leave Nine Dead: Understanding the Conflict and the Peace MechanismsInternal Security Parliamentary Committee Report on the NTA: Findings on Leaks, Staffing, Contractors and AccountabilityPolity & Governance RBI's Strongest Rupee Defence Since 2013: Dollar Window for Oil Refiners and a New Reserve on Forex DerivativesEconomics India's Expanding FTA Network: Nine Trade Pacts in About Four Years and New Talks with the Gulf, Canada and MexicoEconomics Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026: How a Tiny Bias in Molecular Handedness Gets AmplifiedScience & Technology India-US Interim Trade Deal to Be Reworked After US Tariff Changes; New Talks with Mexico, UK and CanadaEconomics RBI Tightens Forex Derivative Rules to Curb Speculation on the RupeeEconomics