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The museum is being created through adaptive reuse of these historic buildings after government offices move out of them, so that their architectural and heritage character survives while they take on a new role as a public cultural institution.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs cleared the museum at this estimated cost, a figure appraised by the Public Investment Board, and the Ministry of Culture concurred with its recommendations.

The decision notes that the extension gives riders direct access to a high-demand corridor, and the point of transfer is the Blue Line interchange at this station.

The decision states that the two cities will together hold that much active metro rail network once the extension starts carrying passengers.

The Cabinet cleared an extension of this length on the Aqua Line of the Noida Metro Rail Project, running from Noida Sector-51 to Greater Noida Sector-04 and carrying 5 elevated stations.

The government supplies this many grades of phosphatic and potassic fertilizers, di-ammonium phosphate among them, to farmers at subsidised prices through fertilizer manufacturers and importers.

From that date the subsidy on phosphatic and potassic fertilizers has been paid under the Nutrient Based Subsidy regime, in which the government fixes a per-kilogram subsidy on each nutrient rather than on each bag, and pays it to manufacturers and importers at notified rates.

The Cabinet put this figure on the Nutrient Based Subsidy for the Rabi season of 2026-27 on phosphatic and potassic fertilizers, with the rates running from 01.10.2026 to 31.03.2027.

A lower fee reduces the cost a lending institution has to carry for buying guarantee cover, and that cost is ultimately reflected in what the micro borrower pays.

The Credit Guarantee Fund for Micro Units gives lending institutions cover against default risk, and that cover is routed through NCGTC, which acts as the trustee for the fund.

The Cabinet cleared this corpus while extending the Credit Guarantee Fund for Micro Units up to 31 March 2031, and the Ministry of Finance expects it to support Mudra lending of Rs 12.6 lakh crore over the five years.

Stand-Up India funds a new greenfield enterprise with either a term loan or a composite loan that joins working capital to the term portion, and the sanctioned amount must be above Rs 10 lakh and may rise to the ceiling of Rs 1 crore, meeting as much as 85 per…

Along with the five-year continuation up to 31 March 2031, the Cabinet sanctioned a credit guarantee corpus of exactly this size, and it is the corpus that lets banks lend to first-generation founders without demanding collateral, because the guarantee takes on the default risk.

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, approved the continuation of the Stand-Up India Scheme for a period of five years ending on that date, so the scheme now has a clear life running to the close of the financial year 2030-31.

The contract covers the normal refit and re-powering of INS Betwa, a Brahmaputra-class frigate, and it was signed with Cochin Shipyard Limited in New Delhi on 11 November 2026 with Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh present.

This is precisely why the contract is called a refit and re-powering rather than a plain refit: the type of machinery that drives the frigate is itself being changed.

INS Betwa, the warship going in for a normal refit and re-powering at Cochin Shipyard Limited under a contract worth Rs 498.58 crore, is a Brahmaputra-class frigate of the Indian Navy.

The Ministry of Defence signed the contract for the normal refit and re-powering of the frigate INS Betwa with Cochin Shipyard Limited, and the value of that contract is Rs 498.58 crore, described by the Ministry as approximately Rs 500 crore.

Speaking at the third national conference of the heads of the anti-narcotics task forces of the States and Union Territories in September of this year, the Union Home Minister said the country would collectively uproot the drug trade by that date, and he placed the protection of young people within…

The national de-addiction helpline has been running since the first of March 2017, first under a longer number and now as this short code, and it offers tele-counselling at all hours while referring callers to the nearest supported facility.