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In its middle course, over the gentle slope of the plain, a river loses the power to cut downward and begins to swing from side to side.

The Secretary also administered the Swachhata Pledge, led the Gandhi Jayanti shramdaan around Technology Bhawan and felicitated the Safai Mitras at the samman shivir, so the office appears repeatedly through the campaign.

Under the Safai Mitra Suraksha initiative, the department arranged a financial awareness session through the securities regulator on 23 September 2026, and it was open to housekeeping staff as well as to the scientists, officers and officials of the department, the aim being to improve financial awareness and the general…

The campaign started on that date across the department, its autonomous institutions and the offices of the Survey of India located throughout the country, and officials took the Swachhata Pledge the very next day, administered by the Secretary.

At the Safai Mitra Suraksha Evam Samman Shivir held on 29 September 2026, the Secretary of the department felicitated 110 Safai Mitras in recognition of their contribution to cleanliness and hygiene at the department, an exercise meant to underline the dignity of sanitation work.

The backgrounder says the seven announced high-speed rail corridors span nearly 4,000 km with an estimated investment of 16 lakh crore rupees, and that they are meant to bring major city pairs within roughly one to four hours of each other.

Besides cutting the running time from roughly eight hours to half an hour, it shortened the distance between the two points from about 300 km to 22 km, which is why it is quoted as one of the sharpest connectivity gains in the document.

The corridor will serve 12 stations and includes India’s first undersea rail tunnel, which runs about 7 km beneath Thane Creek, and the first service on it is targeted for August 2027.

The backgrounder states that the 2026 railway timetable speeded up 549 trains across the network, and it breaks that total into four bands.

Kalpakkam, on the coast south of Chennai, carries the Madras Atomic Power Station with its two indigenous pressurised heavy water reactors and the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, the centre of India's fast breeder reactor programme under the Department of Atomic Energy.

Coimbatore, on the Noyyal river below the Palakkad Gap, earned the name from its cotton mills, textile machinery works and pump industry, and the nearby Tiruppur is the knitwear and hosiery centre.

The Thirukkural of the poet Thiruvalluvar has 1,330 couplets arranged in 133 chapters of ten each, grouped into three parts on virtue, wealth and love, and the 133 foot statue of Thiruvalluvar off Kanyakumari records those 133 chapters.

On 10 July 1806 the Indian sepoys of the garrison at Vellore in present day Tamil Nadu rose against their British officers over new regulations on dress, beards and caste marks, and the rising, though crushed within a day, is remembered as the first major mutiny of Indian soldiers, half…

The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, notified in 1986, was the first biosphere reserve in India and spreads across Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka, taking in Mudumalai, Mukurthi, Bandipur, Wayanad and Silent Valley.

The Nilgiri tahr, a wild goat found only on the higher slopes of the Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, is the state animal of Tamil Nadu, and the Mukurthi national park and the Anamalai hills are its strongholds.

Tamil Nadu elects 39 members to the Lok Sabha and 18 to the Rajya Sabha, and its Legislative Assembly has 234 seats; the Legislative Council was abolished in 1986, so the legislature is unicameral.

The Kallanai, called the Grand Anicut by the British, was built across the Kaveri near Tiruchirappalli by the early Chola king Karikala, and it still spreads the river's water across the delta of Thanjavur, which is why that delta is called the rice bowl of Tamil Nadu.

Mahabalipuram or Mamallapuram, the port town of the Pallavas on the Coromandel coast, carries the rock cut Pancha Rathas and the relief called Arjuna's Penance from the reign of Narasimhavarman I, and the structural Shore Temple from that of Narasimhavarman II, Rajasimha; the group was inscribed as a World Heritage…

The Brihadeeswarar or Peruvudaiyar temple at Thanjavur, also called the Big Temple, was completed about 1010 CE by Rajaraja Chola I, and its tall vimana of granite is the high point of Dravidian temple architecture; it is the core of the Great Living Chola Temples inscribed as a World Heritage…

Doddabetta, about 2,637 metres high and close to Udhagamandalam or Ooty, is the highest point in Tamil Nadu and the highest in the Nilgiri range, where the Western and Eastern Ghats meet.