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Environmental sustainability formed an important part of the drive, and tree plantation was carried out under this initiative, with the concluding plantation at NIFT Delhi on Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti.

The release records that the final plantation activity took place at NIFT Delhi on Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti and was led by her, with senior officials of the ministry joining, under the Shramdaan call Ek Din, Ek Ghanta, Ek Saath.

The Ministry of Textiles says it took part in the campaign over exactly these dates, with its organisations, institutions and field formations joining in, and that the drive culminated on the closing date, which is observed as Swachh Bharat Diwas and as the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

The release says that developments under that system, particularly the way natural resource accounting is now recognised within the national accounting framework, strengthen the importance of environmental accounting, and that the subjects in the roadmap will help in understanding the links between natural resources, the economy and the environment while…

The earlier roadmap, issued by the National Statistical Office under MoSPI, picked out Material Flow Accounts, Ocean Accounts, Energy Accounts and thematic accounts for biodiversity and urban areas as the areas to work on in that period.

The release states plainly that MoSPI has been following the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting, which that commission has endorsed, and that the ministry took up work on various aspects of environment accounts from 2018.

The document is its own compilation and follows the earlier strategy that covered the period ending in 2026.

The Minister met him along with Prakash Melwani, and the talks dealt with expanding Blackstone's investments and partnerships in India across key sectors.

The release says that in the meeting with IBM Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna, the discussion focused on strengthening the company's engagement in India and expanding collaboration in these emerging technologies.

The Minister met its Non-Executive Chairman, Mark Tucker, and the discussion turned on the group's engagement in India and the openings in the insurance and financial services sectors, expressly in the context of India's vision of Insurance for All by 2047.

The release from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry records that he held a series of meetings with senior leaders of leading United States companies in New York during the week, to discuss ways of strengthening India-United States trade and to invite those companies to explore investment in India.

He took part in the workshop on strengthening the parliamentary response to terrorism, where the IPU reference framework was introduced, and also in a separate workshop on critical minerals for shared prosperity and the strengthening of parliamentary oversight over them.

He joined the panel discussion of the Standing Committee on Peace and International Security on the role of parliaments in securing peace in the age of military artificial intelligence, and he also took part in the work of the Standing Committee on Democracy and Human Rights, contributing to the drafting…

He heads the delegation and, on the floor of the Assembly, used the Right of Reply to answer uncalled-for remarks made by Pakistan on Kashmir, stating that Kashmir is an integral and inalienable part of India and that Pakistan has no locus standi in India's internal affairs.

The Rajya Sabha Secretariat records that the Indian Parliamentary Delegation continued its participation in the 153rd IPU Assembly at Arusha in Tanzania, and that the second day of the Assembly was 6 October 2026.

Naval custom has a lady launch a warship, and the release records that she performed the launch in the presence of the chief guest.

On induction these ships will resupply warships on the move, which the Navy says will augment its Blue Water capability and significantly bolster operational logistics, strategic reach and mobility of the fleet.

The Ministry of Defence states that the Fleet Support Ships are indigenously designed and built by Hindustan Shipyard Limited, Visakhapatnam, with indigenous content above 82 per cent, which it reads as a mark of close cooperation between the Navy, the shipyard, defence industries and MSMEs.

The Fleet Support Ships are under construction at HSL in Visakhapatnam, and FSS-1, the first of the class, was launched there on 6 October 2026 with Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh as chief guest.

TRAI's job is to regulate telecom services and tariffs and to protect the interests of subscribers, and drive tests are one of the ways it verifies the quality of service that operators actually deliver.