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Two train services were started from the Banaskantha event, this express and the Mehsana-Becharaji-Sabarmati MEMU service, while foundation stones were laid the same day for extensions of the Ahmedabad Metro towards GIFT City and the airport, and the Ahmedabad-Mehsana highway was announced for widening from four lanes to eight lanes.

The research centre at Banaskantha works under the Rashtriya Gokul Mission on the conservation and scientific breeding of indigenous animals, and it is the first facility of its kind in the country for the Kankrej breed.

Foundation stones were laid, inaugurations were made and projects were dedicated to the nation at Banaskantha for that combined value, and the list ran from a dairy research centre and two bio-CNG plants to two train services, metro rail extensions, a highway widening and thousands of Anganwadi centres.

The Union Cabinet approved the continuation of the scheme from 2026-27 to 2030-31 in July 2026 with that outlay, which secures assured income support for landholding farmer families for a further five-year stretch.

That amount was credited in the twenty-fourth instalment to more than 9.34 crore eligible farmer families, all of it routed through the Direct Benefit Transfer system into Aadhaar-seeded bank accounts.

The twenty-fourth instalment of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi was released from Banaskantha in Gujarat, and from there more than Rs 18,690 crore moved into the accounts of over 9.34 crore farmer families through Direct Benefit Transfer.

TRIPS stands for the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. TRIPS was negotiated in the Uruguay Round and came into force with the World Trade Organization on 1 January 1995, binding every WTO member.

Money from selling the government's stake in public sector enterprises reduces its assets, so it is a capital receipt, not a revenue receipt.

While announcing the event he recalled the association of more than five decades between India and CGIAR and said the Indian priority would be South-South cooperation and the sharing of farm innovations with the Global South, especially African countries.

The first CGIAR Science Week took place there in April 2025, and CGIAR used the occasion to launch its present research portfolio.

CGIAR and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research announced on 30 October 2026 that the capital will host the CGIAR Science and Partnership Week from 12 to 17 April 2027, with more than 5,000 delegates expected.

He led the Indian side at the session in Luxembourg on 29 October 2026 and shared the chair with Filip Vanden Bulcke, Director-General for Geo-Economy and Economic Diplomacy in Belgium, and Henri Schumacher, Secretary General of the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Defence, Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade.

The union ties the two neighbouring countries into one economic arrangement, and India engages with them jointly through a Joint Economic Commission whose nineteenth session met in Luxembourg on 29 October 2026.

The nineteenth session of the Joint Economic Commission between India and the Belgium-Luxembourg Economic Union met in Luxembourg on 29 October 2026, and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry announced the outcome the next day.

It notified the guidelines for the drive in an office memorandum dated 13 August 2026 and it is running the fifth edition from 1 to 30 November 2026.

The campaign carries two numbers that are easy to confuse. The overall target is 2.30 crore digital life certificates, and within that total 1.50 crore are to be produced through face authentication technology.

The Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare will open camps in 2000 cities and districts during the fifth nationwide Digital Life Certificate campaign, which runs from 1 to 30 November 2026.

The two persons associated with the secret manufacturing facility in Jalaun were arrested under its provisions, which cover the production, possession, sale and transport of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.

Searches at the residential premises of one of the accused produced around 15.4 kg of finished methaqualone along with about 153 kg of chemicals and a machine used in the manufacturing process.

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence found the secret laboratory in a remote village of Jalaun district in Uttar Pradesh and raided it in the early hours of 29 October 2026, with the state Anti-Terrorist Squad giving operational help.