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Its scientists traced past environmental conditions at Karela Lake using stable isotopes, vegetation changes and archaeological and sedimentary records, and built a record stretching back about four thousand six hundred years.

Day one of the conference put five initiatives of the Himachal Pradesh government on display, namely Him Parivar, Sukhashraya, the Vidya Samiksha Kendra, Green Himachal and the Rajiv Gandhi Van Samvardhan Yojna, together covering health, social justice, education, environment and forest conservation.

Its Secretary delivered the welcome address and spoke of nominations received for the National Awards for e-Governance and the Prime Minister's Awards as evidence of innovation at the level of districts, States and ministries.

The conference opened in this town of Himachal Pradesh and brought together representatives of the Central Government, States and Union Territories along with experts on digital transformation and technology-enabled service delivery.

For the financial year 2026-27 the Centre has allocated this sum as central assistance for two hostel projects under the scheme, one for girls and one for boys, which together will provide accommodation for two hundred and sixty-four students.

PM-AJAY is run by this ministry and aims at the socio-economic and educational empowerment of Scheduled Caste communities through village infrastructure, livelihood promotion, education and better access to basic services.

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment stated that this many villages had been declared Adarsh Grams under the scheme by that date, reflecting its work on infrastructure, basic services and quality of life in Scheduled Caste-majority villages.

During the visit tied to the Joint Working Group meeting, the Indian delegation went to Mongolia's National Defence University and examined how the Cyber Security Training Centre, established there with Indian assistance, is functioning.

At the fourteenth Joint Working Group meeting in Ulaanbaatar, both delegations appreciated the successful conclusion of this exercise and treated it as evidence of how firmly the two armies have built their cooperation.

The fourteenth meeting of the Joint Working Group between the defence ministries of India and Mongolia took place in Ulaanbaatar, the Mongolian capital, on 16 October 2026, where the two delegations reviewed their running defence cooperation activities and identified new areas to work in.

When actual (equilibrium) real GDP is below the output the economy could produce at full employment, the shortfall is called a recessionary gap.

Convergence of different schemes and the use of ICT for real-time monitoring are both core strategies of POSHAN Abhiyaan. POSHAN Abhiyaan (Prime Minister's Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nourishment), also called the National Nutrition Mission, was launched on 8 March 2018 at Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan.

The ozone hole is a sharp seasonal thinning of the stratospheric ozone layer over Antarctica, caused mainly by chlorine from chlorofluorocarbons.

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar founded the All India Scheduled Castes Federation at Nagpur in July 1942. The Federation was formed as a political party to fight for the rights of the Scheduled Castes as a separate group.

Make in India was launched in 2014, not 2018, and fostering innovation is one of its stated objectives. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Make in India on 25 September 2014 to turn India into a global hub for design and manufacturing.

Institutional training, overseas employment and leveraging of public infrastructure are all sub-missions of the National Skill Development Mission.

When houses are built all around a lake or tank, the village grows in a ring around the water, giving a circular pattern.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1954 and again in 1981.

The tribunal allowed the counter-claims of the National Highways Authority of India to this extent as principal.

This is the length of the Chittorgarh-Udaipur stretch of NH-76 in Rajasthan that was to be widened to six lanes under the concession agreement with Uchit Expressway Private Limited.