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The Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change led the Indian delegation at the Pre-COP31 meetings under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which these three countries co-hosted, and he addressed the Leaders Plenary at Fiji.

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 system has been designed and developed by the Aerial Delivery Research and Development Establishment at Agra and manufactured at the Kanpur factory; it is inspected by DGAQA and certified by CEMILAC, RCMA Kanpur.

The jump was made from that altitude above mean sea level, after which the parachute was deployed at 15,500 feet and the landing was undertaken at the Nyoma drop zone.

The jump was executed at 16,000 feet above mean sea level, the canopy was deployed at 15,500 feet and the landing was made at the drop zone itself, which lies at 13,700 feet.

The release describes the High-Altitude Platform as a lighter-than-air system being developed as a long endurance stratospheric aerial surveillance platform, and the Defence Minister spoke of the trial as a milestone towards realising a long endurance stratospheric airship.

In the experimental flight the High-Altitude Platform climbed to that altitude above mean sea level, and it then remained at 20 km above mean sea level for more than 30 minutes before it was commanded to descend back to the ground.

The release states that this laboratory is designing and developing the High-Altitude Platform, a lighter-than-air system meant to work as a long endurance stratospheric aerial surveillance platform.

Among the roles listed for ITLA is to advise and assist in the review and updating of that policy, alongside capacity building, training and skilling in the logistics sector and the promotion of research and innovation in transport and logistics.

The Cabinet decision asks ITLA to build a unified transport data repository by obtaining relevant transport and logistics datasets from several sources, among them the GSTN e-way bill, FASTag, Vahan, GPS-based systems and urban traffic management systems, and then to carry out analytics such as freight flow and origin-destination studies…

The approval gives the Integrated Transport and Logistics Authority the task of technically appraising infrastructure projects of the Government of India costing that much or more, while financial appraisal continues through the mechanisms that already exist.

The approval states that the majority of the allocation from the fund will go to small and medium enterprises focused on manufacturing, and that enterprises operating in industrial clusters in Tier-II and Tier-III cities will also be considered.

Under the approved scheme the Government of India will provide its aggregate commitment of Rs 10,000 crore to an Alternative Investment Fund established within the SME Growth Fund framework, and that fund will take direct equity positions in small and medium enterprises.

The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved an aggregate commitment of this size by the Government of India towards setting up the SME Growth Fund, and the money will be placed in an Alternative Investment Fund raised under the fund framework.

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.