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8 October 2026
189 items published on 8 October 2026
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Kudumbashree, the community network set up to work alongside Kerala's local self governments
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Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, the ISRO centre at Thiruvananthapuram that develops launch vehicle technology
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Suchitwa Mission, the professional body formed by merging two earlier Kerala sanitation missions
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The Ombudsman for Local Self Government Institutions, a single member body headed by a former High Court judge
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Kerala State Disaster Management Authority, the ten member statutory body chaired by the Chief Minister
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Article 3 of the Constitution and the route by which the name of the State of Kerala would become Keralam
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Kerala's state specific notified disasters, from soil piping to human-wildlife conflict
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Konni, the first Reserve Forest declared in Travancore, and the Act that made it possible
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Cochin Shipyard, India's first greenfield shipyard and builder of its first indigenous aircraft carrier
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The Rubber Board at Kottayam, and the training and research institutions that work under it
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Idukki, the high range district that meets about 66% of Kerala's power needs
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Pathanamthitta, the thirteenth revenue district of Kerala, created by a Revenue Department order
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Kottayam, the Akshara Nagari where Kerala's first printing press and first college began
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Alappuzha, the smallest district of Kerala and the only one with no highland or forest
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Eravikulam National Park, which holds Anamudi, the highest point in South India
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The Vaikom Satyagraha, the 603-day agitation for the roads around the Vaikom Mahadeva Temple
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ICAR-CIFT at Kochi, the country's only national centre for fishing and fish processing research
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Aranmula Kannadi, the metal mirror registered as a geographical indication in the handicraft class
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Kerala's local self-government map: 941 grama panchayats, 87 municipalities and 6 corporations
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Registration opens for the 39th Kerala Science Congress, built around space science for a resilient Kerala
8 Oct
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Kerala extends the last date for September 2026 K-TET applications to 9 October
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Kerala invites nominations for the State Disability Award 2026: 30 awards across 16 categories
8 Oct
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KSEB's Elamkulam 33 kV substation construction to be inaugurated; over one lakh consumers to gain
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Local Self Government Department launches 'Swastham Thaddesam' in Kozhikode to clear audit objections in 91 local bodies
8 Oct
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JOSH campaign under TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan gets its Kozhikode district launch
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Kozhikode district vigilance committee under the food security law to be reconstituted; nominations invited
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Headload workers' welfare board extends annual mustering for scattered sector pensioners in Kozhikode to 31 October
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Chalakudy sub-district leads the Thrissur revenue district school sports meet with 72 points
8 Oct
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Kerala to lay foundation for ₹260 crore new fishing harbour at Vizhinjam, required under the port's environmental clearance
8 Oct
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Kerala releases Red List of Ecosystems assessment of its unique ecosystems, led by the State Biodiversity Board
8 Oct
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Kerala announces 'Santhoshathode Padikkam' statewide campaign for students' mental health
8 Oct
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INCOIS issues Kallakkadal alert for Thiruvananthapuram coast from Kappil to Pozhiyoor
8 Oct
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Kerala gives fishermen not receiving pension an opportunity for Aadhaar authentication
8 Oct
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Revenue Department measures Kerala University land near AKG Centre on High Court direction
8 Oct
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Kerala launches 'Rhythm' virtual platform for differently-abled artists
8 Oct
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Applications invited for laptop scheme for children of Kerala Toddy Tappers Welfare Fund members
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Supreme Court directs that the Udayasthamana Pooja at Guruvayur be held on Vrishchikam Ekadasi
8 Oct
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Kerala approves an E-Challan Amnesty Scheme cutting pending traffic fines by half
8 Oct
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Regulator allows KSEB to keep buying 177 MW from NTPC's Barh plants for three more years
8 Oct
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Forest and Revenue Departments move to clear elephant routes in Idukki after Collector's order
8 Oct
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Venad Express to be extended to Nilambur, Palakkad Divisional Railway Manager says
8 Oct
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Kerala High Court Division Bench holds that GIDA may set up commercial kiosks at Kochi's Queen's Walkway
8 Oct
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Kerala High Court: courts must appoint guardians for persons with dementia and Alzheimer's where circumstances warrant
8 Oct
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Kerala High Court upholds Section 69 of the Succession Act on automatic revocation of wills by marriage
8 Oct
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High Court sets aside order allowing co-education at Erattupetta girls' school and orders status quo
8 Oct
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National
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NALSA: the authority built on Article 39 A to give free legal aid and to organise Lok Adalats
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APEDA: the statutory authority for farm and processed food exports that replaced the Processed Food Export Promotion Council
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Article 124 and the Supreme Court of India: from a Chief Justice and 7 puisne Judges to a strength of 34
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CSIR: a research network of 37 national laboratories and 39 outreach centres with a pan-India presence
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Jurisdiction and seat of the High Courts: the three presidency courts, the Kerala High Court at Kochi and the newest entries
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The Central Information Commission: jurisdiction over all Central Public Authorities, and decisions that are final and binding
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NewSpace India Limited: the commercial arm of ISRO, a wholly owned company under the Department of Space
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Sahitya Akademi: India's National Academy of Letters, created by a Government resolution and working in 24 Indian languages
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The Department of Military Affairs: the fifth Department of the Ministry of Defence, with the Chief of Defence Staff as its Secretary
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CAMPA: the compensatory afforestation fund held in the Public Accounts of India and of each State
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The Chakra Series: India's six Chakra gallantry decorations, and the portal that records every awardee since Independence
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The Universal Immunisation Programme: free vaccines against 12 diseases, and the one vaccine given only in endemic districts
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Deposit insurance: a cover of ₹ 5 lakh and a 90-day settlement deadline once All Inclusive Directions are imposed
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The LAF corridor: the Marginal Standing Facility rate as ceiling and the Standing Deposit Facility rate as floor
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Banker to the governments: the Reserve Bank serves every State except Sikkim, and compiles the accounts at Nagpur
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Aditya-L1: India's first space based mission to study the Sun, in a halo orbit about 1.5 million km from the Earth
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XPoSat: India's first dedicated X-ray polarimetry mission, carrying POLIX and XSPECT
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Article 343 and Article 348: Hindi in Devnagari script for the Union, English for the courts and the statute book
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Article 344: the Commission on official language and the Committee of thirty members of Parliament
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RBI to bring in interoperability among Account Aggregators and set up a Technical Consultative Committee for Financial Markets
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RBI issues Credit Valuation Adjustment Framework Directions and SA-CCR amendments for commercial banks, effective from April 1, 2027
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RBI places report of the Advisory Committee on Ways and Means Advances to State Governments, chaired by I S N Prasad
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Supreme Court asks the Union to set up a committee to recommend regulation of pharmaceutical marketing practices
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Supreme Court to consider a plea to recall the split verdict on the law governing appointment of Election Commissioners
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Supreme Court questions the Election Commission's use of the legislative majority test in the Shiv Sena symbol case
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Marks in an examination cannot cure the lack of an essential qualification under recruitment rules, holds the Supreme Court
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Supreme Court sends the Andhra Pradesh anti-malaria drive case to the High Court for monitoring of the investigation
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Prime Minister greets air warriors on Air Force Day
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Prime Minister inaugurates the 10th India Mobile Congress at Yashobhoomi
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India stresses regional energy cooperation at the 20th East Asia Summit Energy Ministers' Meeting in Manila
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India's installed wind capacity stands at 59.20 GW as Windergy India 2026 opens in Chennai
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Women make up 43% of the Ayush services workforce, says a sector report
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Commerce Minister says India's exports were USD 863 billion last year and targets USD 1 trillion
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Ashwini Vaishnaw launches the World Bank's World Development Report 2026 on the promise of artificial intelligence
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Indian Air Force marks its 94th anniversary at Air Force Station Hindan
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Dr Jitendra Singh says opening the space sector to private players has helped reduce brain drain
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GST Council recommends removing officers' arrest power and raising the prosecution threshold to ₹5 crore
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Centre to cap trade margins at 30% of MRP on non-scheduled anti-cancer drugs
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Supreme Court reserves verdict on early release of a convict whose death sentence was commuted; Justice Datta says 'you have to draw a line somewhere'
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National Biodiversity Authority receives ₹9.68 crore under the Access and Benefit-Sharing framework
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NHAI releases document on wildlife mitigation measures and structures along national highways
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Sonowal meets Saudi, Belgian and Bhutanese delegations at Sagarmanthan as VOC Port signs green shipping pact with Port of Antwerp
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9th National Review Workshop of the Ministry of Cooperation opens in Bastar
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PM Modi thanks Kazakhstan's President Tokayev for wishes on 25 years of service as head of government
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Shivraj Singh Chouhan inaugurates new facilities at ICAR-IIAB Ranchi and calls for a nationwide Khet Bachao Abhiyan
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Chief of Defence Staff inaugurates residential and utility infrastructure under Project Seabird Phase IIA at Karwar
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India's space economy is about USD 9 billion and could reach USD 45 to 46 billion in eight to ten years, says Jitendra Singh
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International
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The ILO is the only tripartite UN agency, seating governments, employers and workers together
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WIPO's global filing systems: PCT for patents, Madrid for trademarks, Hague for designs and Lisbon for geographical indications
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The Council of the EU, the European Council and the Council of Europe are three different bodies
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INTERPOL's colour-coded notices run from the Red Notice for arrest to the Black Notice for unidentified bodies
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The UN General Assembly does its detailed work through six Main Committees, from disarmament to legal questions
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The IUCN Red List sorts species into nine categories, of which only three count as threatened
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FAO counts the European Union among its 194 members alongside 193 countries
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ITER is designed to return 500 MW of fusion power from 50 MW of input heating power
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The IMO works through an Assembly, a Council and five main Committees, with Council seats split into three categories
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The World Health Assembly decides WHO policy and an Executive Board of 34 prepares its agenda
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UNODC, run from Vienna, is the only UN office dedicated to drugs and crime and is the guardian of the international crime and corruption conventions
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The ASEAN Charter gave the Association a new legal framework and legal personality
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The Asian Development Bank opened in Manila with 31 members and is now owned by 69
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The Antarctic Treaty was signed in Washington by the twelve countries whose scientists worked in Antarctica during the International Geophysical Year
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The African Union was launched in Durban as successor to the Organisation of African Unity
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UNESCO judges World Heritage nominations against a single set of ten selection criteria
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Twelve countries created NATO by signing the North Atlantic Treaty, and Article 10 keeps the door open to new members
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The OPCW implements the Chemical Weapons Convention through a plenary Conference and an Executive Council of 41
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WTO dispute settlement runs to a fixed timetable, and a losing country can no longer block a ruling on its own
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The Human Development Index is the geometric mean of three dimension indices built from four indicators
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The Convention on Biological Diversity has three objectives and was opened for signature at the Rio Earth Summit
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FAO Food Price Index edges up in September on higher sugar, cereal and vegetable oil prices
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WMO forum warns a strengthening El Nino will bring drought in the south and floods in the north of the South-West Indian Ocean region
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EU and China open trade talks in Beijing on a deficit of more than a billion euros a day
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Israel votes on 27 October with the conscription of seminary students at the centre of the campaign
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WHO and ILO publish a framework to track social protection for people with tuberculosis
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Canadian writer Anne Carson wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
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Security Council unanimously renews Sudan sanctions regime for two months
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UN verifies dress-code arrests of Afghan women as nearly 6.5 million Afghans have returned from Iran and Pakistan
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UNDP report: 37 million people in Myanmar, 68 per cent of the population, face overlapping crises
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UN deputy chief urges 'keeping 1.5 alive' at Pacific pre-COP ahead of COP31 in Türkiye
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WMO seasonal update forecasts a further strengthening of El Nino into December
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WTO raises its goods trade growth forecast to 3.9 per cent and cuts the services outlook
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US prosecutors add a conspiracy to commit torture count against Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores
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NASA-SpaceX Crew-12 astronauts splash down off California after a 237-day mission on the International Space Station
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ICC judges find Rodrigo Duterte fit to stand trial, with the trial opening scheduled for 30 November
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Sentinel-3C returns its first views of Earth two weeks after launch
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Solar Orbiter traces the origin of magnetic switchbacks in the solar wind
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UNESCO gender report says school enrolment gaps have closed but early marriage still blocks girls
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Solar Orbiter traces the origin of magnetic switchbacks in the solar wind to interchange reconnection at the Sun
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State Focus
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Chandigarh, capital of two States and part of neither, is the principal seat of the Punjab and Haryana High Court
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Ranchi, the Chota Nagpur Plateau and the five divisions and twenty-four districts of Jharkhand
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Murrah, the jet-black buffalo of central Haryana, and the buffalo research institute at Hisar
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Betla, the only national park in Jharkhand, sits inside one of the first nine Project Tiger reserves
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Hariyanak on a Bohar inscription: how the state government's own history traces the name Haryana
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High Court of Himachal Pradesh: from a Court of Judicial Commissioner to its own court at Shimla
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From the Indian School of Mines at Dhanbad to an Indian Institute of Technology
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Kinnaur: three ranges, the Sutlej, Spiti and Baspa valleys, and the Shipki La Pass into Tibet
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The Central Institute of Psychiatry at Ranchi began as the Ranchi European Lunatic Asylum
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Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area is Himachal Pradesh's natural World Heritage property
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Rashtrapati Nivas on Observatory Hill, Shimla: the Viceregal Lodge that now houses the Indian Institute of Advanced Study
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From a circuit bench of the Patna High Court to the High Court of Jharkhand at Doranda, Ranchi
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Udhwa Lake Bird Sanctuary: two jheels of 155 and 410 hectares in the Rajmahal sub-division of Sahebganj
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Elephant, Koel, Palash and Saal: the four state symbols on the Jharkhand state portal
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RBI extends directions on The Baghat Urban Co-operative Bank, Solan, to 8 January 2027
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President Droupadi Murmu attends the first convocation of AIIMS Bilaspur
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Himachal Pradesh High Court directs DGP to circulate Section 94 of the Juvenile Justice Act to all investigating officers
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Himachal Pradesh High Court holds a commissioning mother entitled to maternity leave on par with other women employees
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Lahaul and Spiti, formed in 1960 by merging two separate districts, is administered from Keylong
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Shimla: founded by the British in 1819, capital of undivided Punjab from 1871, and the Kalka-Shimla railway of 1906
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Jharkhand became the 28th state through the Bihar Reorganisation Act, on the birth anniversary of Birsa Munda
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Parasnath Hill in Giridih: the highest peak in Jharkhand and the hill where twenty Jain Tirthankaras attained salvation
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Cauvery Authority upholds 3,000 cusecs a day release by Karnataka to Tamil Nadu for 15 days
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CMRS completes safety inspection of Namma Metro's 7.5-km elevated Pink Line
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KSEAB announces tentative schedule for SSLC and II PU annual exams 1 and 2
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GBA Chief Commissioner Maheshwar Rao says Bengaluru aims to add nearly 3,000 buses
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656 medical seats vacant in Karnataka after third round as NRI quota opens in government colleges
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Nagaland tightens proof requirements for registering a birth or death after one year
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Tripura Cabinet approves a Staff Selection Commission for Group-B, C and D posts
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Afghanistan is landlocked, and the Wakhan Corridor in Badakhshan reaches China's Xinjiang
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Malé is the capital of the Maldives, a low-lying chain of around 1,200 coral islands
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Myanmar is India's only land neighbour inside ASEAN, with a 1,643-km land border
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The Helmand drains about 40% of Afghanistan, and the Hari Rud runs west into Turkmenistan
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Dhivehi is the national language of the Maldives, declared in Article 11 of its Constitution
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The Kaladan corridor and the Trilateral Highway are India's two main connectivity projects in Myanmar
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Both of Afghanistan's World Heritage properties are cultural: the Minaret of Jam and the Bamiyan Valley
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Maldives holds an unbroken United Nations membership but left the Commonwealth and later rejoined
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Maldives joined GATT before the WTO existed, and came into the Indian Ocean Rim Association long after its founding members
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Myanmar entered the United Nations and the GATT in the same year, and the WTO on the day it opened
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The Afghanistan-India Friendship Dam, the Afghan Parliament Building and the road from Zaranj to Delaram
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Myanmar has two World Heritage properties, both cultural: the Pyu Ancient Cities and Bagan
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Afghanistan is on the UN list of least developed countries and heads its list of landlocked developing countries
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Baa Atoll is a Maldivian biosphere reserve of 75 islands under UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme
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Myanmar's main monsoon paddy crop supplies about 80 percent of its annual rice production
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Afghanistan came into SAARC as its eighth member, not as a founder
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Myanmar acceded to ASEAN on the same day as Lao PDR, after Viet Nam and before Cambodia
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The World Bank's Myanmar Economic Monitor tracks an economy set back by earthquake and conflict
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The Gambia's genocide case against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice
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Myanmar is counted in the World Health Organization's South-East Asia Region
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WHO's polio emergency committee calls Afghanistan's South Region the greatest concern
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WFP puts 17.4 million Afghans on course for severe food insecurity
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World Bank records 4.8 per cent growth in Afghanistan while GDP per capita falls 5.6 per cent
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Afghanistan joined the United Nations as the Kingdom of Afghanistan, and hosts 20 of the UN Country Team's 24 entities
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The Maldives has about 1,200 small coral islands and sandbanks, only some 200 inhabited
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No island of the Maldives rises more than 1.8 metres above sea level
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India's currency swap for Maldives: USD 400 million and INR 30 billion
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NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 Dragon Freedom splashes down in the Pacific after 237 days in space
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