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The Department of Posts named two digital platforms, the Dak Sewa App and the Dak Mitra App, as the means by which postal services are being made simpler to reach and to use.

The day draws attention to the contribution of the Department of Posts in widening access to financial services through its very large network, reaching citizens across varied geographies and socio-economic backgrounds.

The theme announced for World Post Day this year is 'World Post Day: One Postal Network, Infinite Possibilities', and it frames the week-long observance by the Department of Posts.

World Post Day is observed on this date and it opens National Postal Week, which the Department of Posts is celebrating from 9 to 15 October 2026.

The inaugural Asian Games were staged at the National Stadium in New Delhi in March 1951 and were declared open by President Rajendra Prasad.

This was the official slogan adopted for the 20th Asian Games at Aichi-Nagoya, a meet organised by the Olympic Council of Asia with forty-five countries and regions taking part.

The 20th Asian Games were held in this Japanese host region from 19 September to 4 October 2026, and the city will also stage the 5th Asian Para Games from 18 to 24 October 2026.

India's campaign at the 20th Asian Games closed with 85 medals in all, and 21 of them were gold. Archery was the richest source with five gold medals, shooting and boxing returned three each, cricket, hockey and kabaddi contributed two each, wrestling added two, and athletics and golf one apiece.

The Union Health Minister said that undergraduate medical seats have risen to that number, while the count of medical colleges has gone up from 384 to more than 800.

Speaking at the convocation, the President said that eligible beneficiaries receive health cover of that amount per family per year under the scheme, which reduces the financial burden of treatment for economically vulnerable families.

President Droupadi Murmu conferred degrees on the first graduating batch of AIIMS Bilaspur at the institute first convocation and also presented gold medals to meritorious students across disciplines.

The council took up five areas: production and productivity, covering capacity addition, modernisation and cost competitiveness across fibre, yarn, fabric, processing and apparel; research and development, including industry and research linkages, new-age fibres and technical textiles; exports and market access, covering diversification of products and markets and the quality, compliance…

The Development Council for Textile Industry held its first meeting there on 6 October 2026, chaired by the Secretary of the Ministry of Textiles, with senior officers of the ministry, industry associations, export promotion councils, research associations, state governments and sector experts in attendance.

The council met for the first time at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi under her chairpersonship, and in her address she stressed that textiles and apparel are among the largest employment generators and export earners for the country and called for a whole-of-value-chain approach to production, innovation and global market…

IndOBIS, which stands for the Indian Ocean Biodiversity Information System, was developed to augment the biodiversity research being carried out under that mission, and its stakeholder engagement workshop ran as a parallel event to the ESTIC curtain raiser at the Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology in Kochi.

The curtain raiser at Kochi informed its audience of the programmes the Ministry of Earth Sciences will run at the conclave on those dates, with a keynote by Dr Kilaparti Ramakrishna of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, invited talks by ocean science experts and a panel discussion on bridging knowledge…

The curtain raiser for its ocean theme was hosted by the Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology at Kochi, an attached office of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, and the theme being previewed was Ocean Sciences and Maritime Technologies.

The Parliament of Tanzania organised the formal inaugural ceremony of the assembly, she addressed the gathering and she declared the 153rd Assembly open.

He headed the delegation at the assembly and attended the inaugural ceremony along with members of Parliament Aparajita Sarangi, Anurag Singh Thakur, N. K. Premachandran and Dr Sasmit Patra, and he also led the bilateral meetings with the Speakers of the Australian House of Representatives and the Tanzanian Parliament.

The Indian parliamentary delegation led by Harivansh, Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, is taking part in the assembly at Arusha, and the Parliament of the United Republic of Tanzania organised the formal inaugural ceremony there.