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The Commission urged all the authorities concerned to implement the recommendations contained in the advisory and to furnish an Action Taken Report within that period, so that it stays informed of the progress being made.

The Commission addressed the advisory to nine Union Ministries, to the Chief Secretaries and Administrators of all States and Union Territories, and to their Directors General of Police, and it has asked them to report back on implementation.

These are the geospatial layers the platform works on to mark out areas where water can usefully be sent back into the ground and to plan the right interventions there.

The application allows a user to identify potential artificial recharge zones within a radial distance of up to three kilometres from a chosen point, and then to explore which recharge structures would suit the conditions prevailing there.

The application was developed by BISAG-N in collaboration with the National Water Mission under the Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation in the Ministry of Jal Shakti, and it was launched by the Union Jal Shakti Minister to support scientific groundwater recharge planning.

The discussions on bilateral relations and on widening trade and investment flows were held during his visit, and the Mexican side was represented by Luis Rosendo Gutierrez Romano, Undersecretary of Foreign Trade, who took part on behalf of Secretary of Economy Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon.

The Prime Minister of India and the President of Mexico met on the sidelines of that summit in June 2025 and agreed to strengthen and deepen the partnership between the two countries; the Terms of Reference signed later are the direct result of that understanding.

The Terms of Reference signed on 28 October 2026 formally launch negotiations for a Preferential Trade Agreement between India and Mexico, and they lay down the framework, scope, modalities and roadmap that the negotiators will follow.

The Dipavamsa is a Pali chronicle of Sri Lanka, not the biography of a king, while the other three are historical biographies of rulers.

The English East India Company built Fort St. George at Madras (Madraspatnam) in 1639 to 1644, and the city of Madras, now Chennai, grew around it.

The nine-square black granite platform with a diya at the centre, set in a lotus pattern, describes Sadaiv Atal, the memorial of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in New Delhi.

When the Bengal National College was set up in Calcutta in 1906, Aurobindo Ghosh left his post in Baroda to become its first principal.

A galvanometer detects whether a small electric current is flowing in a circuit and shows its direction. A moving-coil galvanometer has a coil placed between the poles of a magnet.

Bharatmala Pariyojana is the Union government's umbrella programme for developing national highways and road corridors.

Reverberation is the persistence of sound in a hall after the source has stopped, caused by repeated reflections from the walls, ceiling and floor.

Weathering, mass wasting, erosion and transportation together wear down and strip away the earth's surface, and this combined work is called denudation.

Services that create, rearrange and interpret new and existing ideas, interpret data and evaluate new technologies are classed as quinary activities.

The First Plan (1951 to 1956) gave agriculture, community development and irrigation about a third of its outlay, the highest share in any Indian plan.

Varuna is the naval exercise between India and France, not between India and the USA. India and France began their bilateral naval exercises in 1983, and the series was named Varuna in 2001; it has since been held regularly in the Indian Ocean and off the French coast.

This goes against the conservation of charge: the total charge of an isolated system always stays the same. Electric charge has three basic properties.