The meeting aimed to address various issues about the route of the ‘Kawad Yatra’, such as water logging, potholes, ensuring adequate/additional street lighting, illegal cuts on the highways, implementation of short-term road safety measures, and road signage, etc.
Month: June 2025
Received ‘authority in coordination with DoT’ SMS? Don’t worry, this is part of a special exercise
The Department of Telecommunications, under the Ministry of Communications, is actively working in collaboration with the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to enhance the country’s mobile-enabled disaster communication systems, in order to ensure timely information dissemination to citizens. Here is a summary of some of the key steps that the NDMA has taken in this […]
RBI notifies Rs 2.86 lakh crore borrowing for States/UTs in Q2
The share of borrowing (including SGrBs) under different maturities will be: 3-year (5.3 per cent), 5-year (11.3 per cent), 7-year (8.2 per cent), 10-year (26.2 per cent), 15-year (14.0 per cent), 30-year (10.5 per cent), 40-year (14.0 per cent) and 50-year (10.5 per cent), the March finance ministry statement noted.
Char Dham Yatra resumes after 24-hour suspension
The temporary suspension had been imposed on Sunday as a precautionary measure to protect the lives and property of pilgrims and residents amid severe weather.
‘Carrying hopes of 1.4 billion Indians’: PM Modi speaks with nation’s first ISS astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla
“PM Narendra Modi interacted with Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who is aboard the International Space Station,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a post on X.
Uttarakhand Rains: Badrinath-Rishikesh highway blocked, passenger movement halted across key pilgrimage routes
Uttarakhand Weather Update: In Rudraprayag district, persistent rainfall forced authorities to restrict movement on the Sonprayag-Munkatiya road on Friday.
Kerala Rains: IMD issues orange alert in five districts; dam shutters opened as water levels rise
Kerala Rains: On Saturday morning, the shutter gates of the Banasura Sagar dam in Wayanad and Moozhiyar in Pathanamthitta were opened.
India imposes anti-dumping duties on plastic processing machines from China, Taiwan
India imposes 27-63 per cent anti-dumping duties on plastic processing machines from China, Taiwan
Jagannath Rath Yatra 2025: PM Modi, President Murmu, Amit Shah offer prayers, share wishes
As part of the festival, Lord Balabhadra, Devi Subhadra and Lord Jagannath are set to begin their nine-day sojourn to their aunt’s place at Gundicha Temple in Odisha’s Puri.
RBI’s latest project finance directions to protect banks from risk exposure
According to a Crisil report released today on June 26, 2025, the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) final directions on project financing will help strengthen the guardrails against risk in project financing and harmonise the relevant and extant regulations across regulated entities.