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A fresh provision now deals with late payment of interconnection charges and interconnection usage charges: the two service providers may settle the interest rate between themselves, but it cannot go above that benchmark.

The amendment modernises the framework by moving handover and takeover of telecom traffic away from the older charging-area geography to the Licensed Service Area, and it lets the interconnection provider and seeker agree between themselves where traffic will change hands.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India released these amendment regulations and stated that they would come into force from the first day of January 2027, which gives operators a window to prepare before the new interconnection duties begin.

While tracing how urban rail has spread in the country, the Prime Minister said the first metro in India ran in 1984, and he contrasted that long start with the slow building that followed, pointing out that metro services were confined to five cities even in 2014.

The Prime Minister said that metro trains ran in only five Indian cities in 2014 and that the service has since spread to 26 cities.

The Prime Minister drew particular attention to the fact that this metro line is the product of joint effort by the government and the private sector, and he described it as a development model whose success would add pace to the country's progress.

The Pune Metro line dedicated to the public by the Prime Minister on this occasion runs from Hinjawadi to Shivajinagar, and its importance lies in the fact that Hinjawadi holds the city's largest information-technology cluster, which now gets direct metro connectivity.

ICD Dadri appears in the Health Ministry's proposal as an inland container depot in Uttar Pradesh, the same state that holds the proposal's only airport, Noida International Airport.

Among the locations the Health Ministry wants added to the list of authorised import gateways, this is the only airport, and it is named specifically for drugs brought in by air.

This is the provision of the Drugs Rules, 1945 that sets out the ports, airports, railway stations, road crossings and other points through which drugs may lawfully be brought into India, and it is the rule the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has proposed to amend.

The Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan, shortened to PM KUSUM, was launched then to push solar adoption in farming, cut dependence on diesel and let farmers diversify their earnings.

Agrivoltaics is also known as agrisolar or dual-use solar, the names pointing to the same idea of one plot of land serving two purposes, growing a crop and generating electricity.

That was India’s operational agrivoltaic fleet as of August 2025, and alongside it 10 pilot projects were under development. These projects are spread across different agro-climatic regions and use elevated structures, interspace layouts and tracking systems.

Speaking at AIIMS Rajkot, the Union Health Minister said the country had moved from a single AIIMS in New Delhi to 18 operational institutions out of 22, which he described as a significant strengthening of access to specialised tertiary healthcare.

That is the catchment the facility is expected to cover across Saurashtra, taking in Rajkot, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Porbandar, Amreli, Bhavnagar, Morbi, Surendranagar, Gir Somnath, Devbhumi Dwarka and Botad, a region made up largely of rural, semi-urban and economically weaker communities.

The facility at AIIMS Rajkot was established under this scheme at a cost of about Rs 39 crore, and the stated purpose was to reduce regional imbalance in the availability of tertiary healthcare.

The conference featured four thematic technical sessions. The first dealt with health and survival across the life course, the second with girls education, learning and transition, the third with women work, wages, formality and care, and the fourth with women livelihoods, enterprises, skills and financial inclusion.

The conference was called to deliberate on and disseminate the findings of this flagship publication of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, so that the people who design and run programmes could read its results more deeply and use them across sectors.

The one-day national conference on the theme Gender Data and Statistics: From Evidence to Policy Insights was organised by MoSPI in collaboration with UN Women, and it was held in New Delhi on 2 November 2026.

Winners and runners-up of the hackathon held on this theme were honoured at the same ceremony at Raipur, and their entries applied artificial intelligence to problems of operational efficiency, mine safety and environmental sustainability in the coal sector.