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29 September 2026
230 items published on 29 September 2026
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Silent Valley National Park, a tropical evergreen forest drained by the Kunthipuzha, was declared a national park
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Pampadum Shola, at 1.32 sq km, is the smallest national park in Kerala
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Kerala's two tiger reserves: Periyar notified in 2007 with a total area of 925 sq km, Parambikulam in 2009 with 643.66 sq km
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Kerala's Western Ghats World Heritage areas are grouped into the Agasthyamalai, Periyar, Anamalai, Nilgiri and Thalakkavery sub-clusters
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Malappuram district's population rose from 3625471 in 2001 to 4112920 in 2011, with Tirur the most populous taluk
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The Pamba, Kerala's third longest river at 176 km, originates in Pulachimala and drains Pathanamthitta with the Achankovil and Manimala
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Kottayam, India's first town to achieve 100% literacy, is home to Kerala's first printing press and first college
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Union Cabinet approved altering the name of the State of “Kerala” to “Keralam”, setting the Article 3 process in motion
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Kozhikode district covers 2345 sq km and records a literacy rate of 95.08%
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Ernakulam district, headquartered at Kakkanad, has a population of 32,82,388 and a sex ratio of 1024
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Alappuzha district records a population density of 1504 and a sex ratio of 1,100
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Kerala's 18 wildlife sanctuaries cover 2156.21 sq km
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Kerala has four elephant reserves: Wayanad, Nilambur, Anamudi and Periyar
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Nilgiri and Agasthyamalai are the two biosphere reserves of Kerala
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Myristica swamps cover 0.004% of Kerala's land area but harbour 16.3% of Western Ghats endemic species
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Kannur holds Kerala's largest mangrove expanse, spanning over 7.55 square kilometers
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Kerala Cabinet decides to dissolve Loka Kerala Sabha, plans investment-focused mechanism for expatriates
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Sixteenth Kerala Legislative Assembly to meet for second session from 12 October
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Kerala High Court quashes order abolishing Kerala Police Officers Association, cites Article 19(1)(c)
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Kerala High Court: inter-religion marriage also qualifies for inter-caste marriage reservation benefits
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Kerala High Court bars unauthorised photography, videography and live streaming on its premises
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Kerala High Court: accidental 'saffron down' display of national flag is no offence without intent to insult
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Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act: what Section 2 punishes, as the Kerala High Court rules on a flag case
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Chaliyar, Bharathapuzha, Periyar and Pamba are the four medium rivers of Kerala, measuring 169, 209, 244 and 176 km
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Vembanad-Kole, Ashtamudi and Sasthamcotta lakes are designated as Ramsar sites in Kerala
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Kerala Kalamandalam was founded by poet Vallathol Narayana Menon and Manakkulam Mukundaraja as a Kathakali training centre
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Kerala's Ombudsman for Local Self Government Institutions is a single-member quasi-judicial body headed by a former High Court judge
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Kerala State Election Commission is formed under Article 243 (k) to conduct elections to local bodies
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Payyannur was the main venue of the Salt Satyagraha in Malabar, reached on foot from Kozhikode under K. Kelappan
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Kozhikode, the 'City of Spices', was the capital of the Samoothiris (Zamorins) and the port where Vasco da Gama anchored
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Kerala's Census figures show a sex ratio of 1084 females per 1000 males and a literacy rate of 94.00 per cent
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Section 100 of the Patents Act lets the Central government use a patent to manufacture a medicine and sell it on a non-commercial basis
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Section 9 of the Cinematograph Act empowers the Central Government to grant exemption from the certification requirements, the route by which a festival screens uncertified films
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Koder House, the three-storey red-brick mansion on Tower Road in Fort Kochi, was remodelled by Samuel S Koder, who registered the Cochin Electric Company
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Kerala announces free Troponin T tests for BPL families at government health institutions
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Kerala High Court refuses to shift Shuhaib murder trial out of Thalassery sessions court
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LDF gains three seats as Kerala counts local body bypolls in 38 wards
29 Sep
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Kerala High Court seeks affidavit from Backward Classes Development Secretary on socio-economic caste survey
29 Sep
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Kerala High Court Rule Committee decides to delete drum-beat proclamation rule for attachment of property
29 Sep
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Kerala High Court reserves verdict on plea for FIR in CMRL-Exalogic case after ED communication
29 Sep
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Kerala to implement industry status for cinema with priority to art as well as marketing, draft to go to Cabinet after film bodies' views
29 Sep
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Kerala High Court tells Travancore Devaswom Board to exercise greater care over halal-marked jaggery for Sabarimala prasadam
29 Sep
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Finance Commission of India: the article 280 body and the Sixteenth Commission's composition
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NITI Aayog: how India's apex policy think tank was constituted and what it is mandated to do
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ISRO's centres and units: where the Department of Space works from
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Jal Jeevan Mission: Functional Household Tap Connections and the components it funds
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National Green Tribunal: statute, five places of sitting and the six-month disposal mandate
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Central Information Commission: its constitution under the RTI Act and the sections that give it power
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Monetary Policy Committee: six members under section 45ZB of the Reserve Bank of India Act
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India's tiger conservation figures: 3682 tigers, 58 tiger reserves and the NTCA's role
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Nadda addresses Aarogya Manthan 2026 marking eight years of AB PM-JAY and five years of ABDM
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India and GCC review Joint Action Plan 2024-28 at Troika Ministerial Meeting in New York
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Foundation stone laid for 150 TPD E-Methanol plant at Deendayal Port Authority in Kutch
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Comptroller and Auditor-General of India: appointment, removal and reports under Articles 148 to 151
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Union Public Service Commission: Articles 315 to 323 of the Constitution
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Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India: its mission and statutory role
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Defence Research and Development Organisation: how it was formed and what it does
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Law Commission of India: how law reform was first institutionalised under the Charter Act
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Supreme Court Collegium recommends three High Court Chief Justices for elevation as apex court judges
29 Sep
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Supreme Court orders four-week safety audit of public spaces in Delhi-NCR in suo motu case on rapes
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Supreme Court sets aside bail of Shiv Sena corporator Ramesh Mhatre in Dombivli hospital case
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Supreme Court directs Bihar and Jharkhand to pay ₹1 lakh each to daily-wage workers of defunct corporations
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Piyush Goyal visits US from 29 September for G20 Trade Ministers' meeting and India-US trade deal talks
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Vithya Ramraj wins 400m hurdles bronze at Asian Games, breaks PT Usha's 42-year-old national record
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Gulveer Singh wins men's 1500m silver at Asian Games with personal best
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Pincky Balhara wins women's 78kg Kurash bronze at Asian Games
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India signs United Nations Convention against Cybercrime on sidelines of UNGA81
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Jaishankar meets Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov at UNGA and reviews bilateral and BRICS cooperation
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Reserve Bank of India: establishment, headquarters and the objective set out in its Preamble
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Securities and Exchange Board of India: from a 1988 resolution to a statutory regulator
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Lokpal of India: established by Section 3 of the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013
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Department of Atomic Energy: set up under the Prime Minister's charge and the Atomic Energy Commission
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Chief of Defence Staff: the four-star post and the Department of Military Affairs
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Central Armed Police Forces: the forces listed by the Ministry of Home Affairs
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India's Biosphere Reserves and UNESCO's Man and Biosphere Programme
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Ramsar Convention: India as a Contracting Party and Kanjirankulam Bird Sanctuary
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National Emergency under Article 352: grounds, Articles 358 and 359, and the 44th Amendment
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Goods and Services Tax Council: constituted under Article 279A, with the Central Government holding one-third of the weighted vote
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The 73rd Amendment added Part IX and a new Eleventh Schedule of 29 subjects for the Panchayats
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Periodic Labour Force Survey: the National Statistics Office survey behind the Labour Force Participation Rate, Worker Population Ratio and Unemployment Rate
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National Quantum Mission: an outlay of ₹6,003.65 crore, four Thematic Hubs and the Hub-Spoke-Spike model
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Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin): the VB-G RAM G Act is a statutory overhaul of MGNREGA guaranteeing 125 days of wage employment
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National Commission for Women: constituted under section 3 of its Act with a Chairperson, five Members and a Member-Secretary
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RBI releases report of Advisory Committee on Ways and Means Advances to State Governments
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Supreme Court quashes NSA detention of Sambhal violence accused and imposes Rs 10 lakh cost on Uttar Pradesh
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Sitharaman and Qatari Finance Minister discuss extending UPI across Qatar
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India-Kazakhstan joint military exercise KAZIND-2026 enters joint training phase at Oskemen
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Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry launches new initiatives under PRAGATI 50 to build a model city framework for 50 cities
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Supreme Court suggests uniform 16 per cent margin on all medicines while examining cancer drug markups
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INS Tarkash arrives at Mombasa for operational turnaround with Kenya
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CBDT extends income-tax return due date for audit cases to 21 November
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India and Republic of Korea hold 10th Joint Committee Meeting on defence industries and logistics
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India and Italy agree to strengthen tourism cooperation at 2nd Joint Working Group
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MSME Ministry and MoSPI sign MoU to build the Statistical Business Register
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TDB signs agreement for ₹37.51 crore RDI support for indigenous multi-gas sensing platform
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Government details roadmap for a Drug Free India by 2029
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CBI secures deportation of Nirav Modi case fugitive Sandeep Mistry from UAE
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India's membership of the Financial Action Task Force and the Egmont Group
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Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure: an international organisation with its Secretariat in New Delhi
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India is a Contracting Party to the Ramsar Convention signed in Ramsar, Iran
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India is the largest contributor to UN peacekeeping, with over 290,000 peacekeepers sent to more than 50 missions
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India is a Party to the Montreal Protocol and has ratified the Kigali Amendment on hydrofluorocarbons
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What the Global Hunger Index measures and who publishes it
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How UNESCO's World Heritage Convention works and when India joined it
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India has 44 World Heritage Properties; the Archaeological Survey of India maintains 27 of them
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India hosted UNCCD COP14 at Greater Noida, where the Delhi Declaration was adopted
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DR Congo Ebola outbreak passes 8,000 cases, DRC health institute reports
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Russian strikes kill eight across Ukraine; Kharkiv apartment block hit the next day
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The six principal organs of the United Nations
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The Security Council: fifteen members and the rule behind the veto
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The General Assembly: one state, one vote
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The Economic and Social Council: fifty-four members
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The UN Charter: signing, authentic texts and the annexed Statute
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The Chemical Weapons Convention and the OPCW
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WHO reports about 7,800 suspected cholera cases in Yemen in 2026 as renewed fighting strains hospitals
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Security Council hears of over 1,600 settler attacks in the West Bank this year and a stalled Gaza peace plan
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UN voices grave concern as fighting spreads across northern Ethiopia and drones are used
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Sudan tells the UN General Assembly it rejects imposed solutions; General al-Burhan's US visa was denied
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South Sudan tells the UN General Assembly it remains committed to general elections in December
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DPR Korea tells the UN General Assembly its nuclear status is irreversible
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UN leaders renew push to defeat racism, 25 years after the Durban Declaration
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State of the World's Forests 2026: 489 million hectares of forest lost to deforestation since 1990
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Hungary's parliament lifts immunity of Prime Minister Magyar and two former Orbán-era ministers
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Myanmar military airstrike on a market in Rakhine state kills at least 33
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How the WTO settles trade disputes: the Dispute Settlement Body, panels and the Appellate Body
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The International Criminal Court: four organs, 18 judges and jurisdiction over four crimes
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The Paris Agreement: a legally binding treaty built on Nationally Determined Contributions
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INTERPOL: 196 member countries, a General Secretariat in Lyon and a National Central Bureau in every country
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The James Webb Space Telescope: a 6.5-metre segmented mirror observing infrared light from the L2 point
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The Mauna Loa record is the longest series of direct measurements of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
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The Global Polio Eradication Initiative has cut wild poliovirus cases by over 99% and left two endemic countries
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The Strait of Hormuz, between Oman and Iran, is the world's most important oil transit chokepoint
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UNHCR says funding cuts leave 8.3 million refugees at risk of losing vital assistance
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International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste observed with a focus on forests
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UN General Assembly holds high-level plenary on eliminating nuclear weapons as about 12,400 warheads remain
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WHO says early care and reliable oxygen decide survival in DR Congo's Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak
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United States leaves its last bases in Iraq under a 30 September 2026 deadline, ending the US-led coalition mission
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Reserve Bank of Australia raises its cash rate target to 4.60 per cent
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Nagaland Assembly passes Frontier Nagaland Territorial Authority Bill for six eastern districts
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Longleng, home of the Phom Nagas, became Nagaland's tenth district
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Article 371(A), inserted in 1962, followed the 16 Point Agreement of 1960 and preceded Nagaland's 1963 statehood
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Peren district in Nagaland lists seven major rivers and the Ntangki National Park
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Konark Sun Temple: Odisha's UNESCO World Heritage chariot of the Sun God
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Ludhiana district covers 3967 sq km and records a literacy rate of 82.02 per cent
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The brass and copper utensil craft of the Thatheras of Jandiala Guru is inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
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Rajasthan holds four of the World Heritage Properties in India: Hill Forts, Jantar Mantar, Jaipur City and Keoladeo
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The High Court of Rajasthan has its principal seat at Jodhpur and a permanent bench at Jaipur
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The State of Rajasthan was formed by the integration of 19 Princely States, with Jaipur as capital
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The head regulator of the Indira Gandhi Feeder at Harike was built for 15,000 cusecs
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Namchi, meaning Sky High, is the headquarter of Sikkim's Namchi district, formerly the South District
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Khangchendzonga National Park is the only National Park in Sikkim and a UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Sikkim became the 22nd State of India under the Constitution (36th Amendment) Act, which laid Article 371(F) for the State
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The Sikkim Public Service Commission was constituted to fulfil the provision under Article 315
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Government of Sikkim statistics give the State an area of 7096 Sq. Kms, a population of 6,10,577 and literacy of 82.6
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Harike Wild Life Sanctuary, at the confluence of the Beas and Sutlej rivers, covers approximately 86 sq km and is a Ramsar site
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Punjab asks the Centre for 5.5 lakh MT of DAP and 15 lakh MT of urea before Rabi sowing
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Supreme Court lets Rajasthan Cricket Association polls proceed but withholds results over women's exclusion plea
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Tamil Nadu uses artificial reefs, corals and seagrass to save shrinking Kariyachalli island
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Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park: 21 islands and South Asia's first marine biosphere reserve
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Hookah cannot be served even in designated smoking areas in Uttar Pradesh, Allahabad High Court rules
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Delhi's Special Intensive Revision: claims and objections open till 30 October, final roll on 4 December
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India and the Netherlands elevate ties to a Strategic Partnership
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The Netherlands: India's third largest export destination and fourth largest source of FDI
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Riksbank leaves policy rate unchanged at 1.75 per cent; expects increases to begin this year if outlook holds
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Economics prize in memory of Alfred Nobel was set up by Sweden's Riksbank
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Swedish PM Kristersson says he will resign as left-wing opposition wins 176 of 349 Riksdag seats
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Article 9 is the only article in Chapter II of the Constitution of Japan, the chapter headed Renunciation of War
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The Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement binds India with the EFTA States: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland
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Norway's National Budget for 2027 goes to the Storting on 7 October
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on 9 October
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