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Its 58th Foundation Day was celebrated at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, and the Vice-President addressed the gathering, praising the institute for nearly six decades of work in strengthening transparent, ethical and inclusive corporate governance.

The Union Rural Development Minister announced at Burripalem that the national Saras Mela, a fair of self help group products, will be held in Andhra Pradesh on 15 October, and that this is the first time in the country's history that the fair moves out of Delhi.

The Centre pays Rs 6,000 a year to eligible farmers under the PM-KISAN Samman Nidhi, and the Andhra Pradesh government adds Rs 14,000 a year under its own Annadata Sukhibhava scheme, so a farmer in the state gets twenty thousand rupees in a year.

The foundation stone of the country's first housing project built with 3D concrete printing was laid at Burripalem and Obulnaidupalem in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh.

Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and Rural Development Shivraj Singh Chouhan handed Andhra Pradesh a sanction of three lakh permanent houses, costing Rs 3,600 crore, at Burripalem village in Guntur district, with Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu present.

Across the sixteen Pension Adalats held before the present one, 20,676 of 28,797 grievances were closed on the spot, which works out to a success rate of 71.79 per cent.

The Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare introduced Pension Adalats in 2017 as an alternative way of settling complicated and long-pending pension complaints of central government pensioners.

The 17th Pension Adalat is thematic and lists 897 long-pending grievances belonging only to super-senior pensioners and family pensioners. These complaints relate to 24 ministries and departments and were lodged on the CPENGRAMS portal, the online grievance system for central government pensioners.

The 17th Pension Adalat is being held under the chairmanship of the Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Dr. Jitendra Singh, at the T. N. Chaturvedi Memorial Hall of the Indian Institute of Public Administration in New Delhi on 5 October 2026.

The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana was launched on 1 May 2016 at Ballia in Uttar Pradesh.

A loan becomes a non-performing asset when interest or an instalment of principal stays overdue for more than 90 days.

The General Insurance Corporation of India, or GIC, was incorporated as a company in November 1972, the year general insurance was nationalised in India.

Unemployment that rises when the economy slides into a recession or a depression, and falls again in a boom, is called cyclical unemployment.

Ajay Tamta is wrong as the answer to this question, although he will also address the inaugural session; he serves as a Minister of State in the same ministry, not as its Cabinet Minister.

The conclave is built around five thematic sessions: PM GatiShakti and integrated infrastructure planning; Land Acquisition and Bhoomi Rashi; Model Concession Agreements and Ratings; Designing Safe Highways; and Quality Assurance and Project Monitoring.

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is holding its two-day Chintan Shivir there on 5 and 6 October 2026, bringing together senior representatives of the Centre, the States and the agencies that carry out highway work.

The Bustard Recovery Programme is a joint effort of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, the Rajasthan Forest Department and the Wildlife Institute of India, with technical collaboration from the International Fund for Houbara Conservation and funding from National CAMPA.

The two conservation-breeding facilities at Sam and Ramdevra together hold 97 Great Indian Bustards, and that total is made up of two streams of birds.

The Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav, freed two male Great Indian Bustards at that spot, with the Rajasthan Minister for Forest and Environment, Sanjay Sharma, and senior officers of the Union and State governments present.

The plantation drive was organised in the NTPC area under this initiative by the Department of Swasthavritta and Yoga, and senior faculty members, deans and scholars of the Institute took part in it.