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The Council resolved that the One Nation One Port Process reforms, which include One Nation One Documentation, port process re-engineering and inter-ministerial process reforms, must be in place at every port by March 2027.

Two credit risk insurance products for shipyards were announced at the meeting under the National Shipbuilding Mission, both framed under the Shipbuilding Development Scheme.

The Council was recognised as a statutory consultative body under this Act, which was notified on 15 May 2026, and the Mumbai session was the first one it held in that new character.

The twenty-first meeting of the Maritime State Development Council was held in Mumbai, where delegates were also taken on study visits to the cruise terminal of the Mumbai Port Authority and to Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority before the session began.

The All Parties Conference of 1928 set up a committee under Motilal Nehru, and its draft constitution is known as the Nehru Report.

Severability is a doctrine used by courts to interpret laws, not a writ. Under Article 32 the Supreme Court, and under Article 226 the High Courts, can issue five writs: habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, certiorari and quo warranto.

The rocky planets are dense, the gas giants are light, and Saturn is the least dense planet of all. Earth is the densest planet in the Solar System at about 5.5 g/cm³, with Venus close behind at about 5.2 g/cm³; both are made of rock and metal.

Article 191(1)(a) disqualifies a person who holds an office of profit under the Government of India or the Government of any State.

Dadabhai Naoroji founded it in London in 1866 to put the Indian point of view before the British public and Parliament.

Article 231 lets Parliament, by law, set up a common High Court for two or more States, or for two or more States and a Union Territory.

The exosphere, the outermost layer of the atmosphere, is made up mostly of the two lightest gases, hydrogen and helium.

It comes from the Directive Principles of State Policy, which no court can enforce. Article 39(a) asks the State to direct its policy towards securing that citizens, men and women equally, have the right to an adequate means of livelihood.

The Quaternary, the latest period of the Cenozoic era, is divided into the Pleistocene and the Holocene epochs. The Quaternary began about 2.58 million years ago.

Of all the sunlight that falls on their leaves, green plants fix only about one per cent as chemical energy in food.

Article 371A protects Naga religious and social practices, customary law and procedure, and land ownership, but says nothing about the State's boundaries.

The 73rd Amendment gave panchayats constitutional status. The Constitution (Seventy-third Amendment) Act, 1992 came into force on 24 April 1993, the date now marked as National Panchayati Raj Day.

In his address he said Indian agriculture must move beyond a narrowly production centric approach and take up a broader agri food system and value chain perspective, stressing market research, market intelligence, the alignment of production with market demand and improved farmer profitability.

Students of agriculture and allied sciences in that number, representing that many states, are taking part in the tenth National Convention of Agrivision-2026, alongside eminent speakers, scientists, senior officers of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, agricultural entrepreneurs and farmers.

The National Convention of Agrivision-2026 being held on 13 and 14 October at the ICAR-NASC Complex at Pusa in New Delhi is the tenth national convention of Agrivision, and for that reason it is described as a significant milestone for the organisation.

That was the haul with which India finished tenth globally at WorldSkills Shanghai, an improvement on the thirteenth position at WorldSkills Lyon in 2024.