Thermal power plants imported 45.4 million tonnes of coal in FY 2025–26, compared with 62.5 million tonnes in FY 2024–25. This represented a year-on-year decline of approximately 27.4 per cent.
The figures provide a mid-season assessment of sowing activity and should not be viewed as the final acreage for the 2026 kharif season. Planting remains under way in several regions, and the final cultivated area will depend on the geographical distribution of rainfall, soil moisture, availability of irrigation and the pace at which farmers complete sowing operations.
Technology began playing a significant role in income-tax administration in 1981, when the Department introduced computerisation and electronic processing of tax challans. This initial step laid the foundation for the large-scale digitisation of taxpayer records, return processing and financial information that followed in subsequent decades.
Of the total allocation, ₹3,000 crore will be used to establish shared infrastructure and basic facilities within the proposed parks. The remaining ₹30 crore has been set aside for administrative and implementation-related expenditure. The scheme, which was initially announced in the Union Budget 2026–27, will be implemented over five years.
Thrissilery lies close to Mananthavady in northern Wayanad. The region is surrounded by wooded hills, streams, paddy fields and routes leading toward the Brahmagiri mountains and Thirunelli. Kerala Tourism places the temple approximately eight kilometres north-west of Mananthavady.
The accepted botanical source of Haritaki is Terminalia chebula Retz., a tree belonging to the Combretaceae family. The Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India defines the medicinal drug as the pericarp of the mature fruit. The species is native across the Indian subcontinent and extends eastward into parts of China and Indo-China.
The company’s Vikram launchers are named after Dr Vikram Sarabhai, the architect of India’s space programme. Their primary market consists of small satellites used for Earth observation, communications, navigation, scientific research and technology demonstration. Dedicated launches allow a customer to select mission parameters more precisely, while rideshare services distribute launch capacity and cost among several payload operators.
An unmanned surface vehicle travels on the surface of the water without an onboard crew. It may be controlled remotely, follow a predetermined route or perform parts of a mission autonomously using navigation software and onboard sensors.
The Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India officially defines Chavya as the dried stem of Piper retrofractum. It describes the plant as a smooth, fleshy climber cultivated mainly in southern India. The dried medicinal stem occurs as cylindrical or slightly twisted greyish-brown pieces with visible nodes and internodes. It possesses a pepper-like odour and a distinctly acrid taste.
The investment represents one of India’s largest proposed AI infrastructure projects and is intended to create domestic computing capacity for training, deploying and operating advanced artificial intelligence models. Such infrastructure is increasingly important as governments and businesses seek secure computing systems that keep sensitive data and AI workloads within India.
