As of July 17, 2026, 6,00,868 of India’s 6,01,328 inhabited villages—around 99.92 per cent—had access to a banking outlet within a five-kilometre radius. These outlets include conventional bank branches, Business Correspondents and India Post Payments Bank centres.
The inclusion makes Glaw Lake the first Ramsar Site in Arunachal Pradesh and raises India’s total number of designated wetlands of international importance to 101.
Addressing the India-Uzbekistan Business Forum in New Delhi on August 3, 2026, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal urged businesses from the two countries to work towards doubling bilateral trade over the next three years.
From Banarasi sarees and Channapatna toys to Darjeeling Tea, Muzaffarnagar Jaggery and Assam’s Joha Rice, GI recognition provides buyers with an assurance of geographical origin and traditional authenticity. At the same time, it offers artisans, farmers, weavers and producer organisations a legal and commercial tool to protect their products from imitation.
Surana occupies a distinctive position in Ayurveda because it is regarded as nourishing when properly prepared while also possessing strong digestive and channel-clearing qualities. Classical descriptions particularly associate it with weak digestion, abdominal heaviness, piles and certain Kapha–Vata disorders. Its pungency and occasional irritating effect, however, make correct cooking and judicious use important.
Chennai-based Mindgrove Technologies is working to change this imbalance. The IIT Madras-incubated fabless semiconductor company designs indigenous system-on-chips for embedded equipment, connected devices, industrial automation and edge-computing applications.
The temple stands in Ananthapura village, around five to six kilometres south-east of Kumbla, within the culturally diverse northern region where Kerala and Tulu traditions meet. Unlike many Kerala temples surrounded by dense groves or settlement streets, Ananthapura occupies a rocky laterite landscape, with the still water around its sanctum creating the impression of a shrine separated from the ordinary world.
The shrine lies about seven to eight kilometres east of Kasaragod town. Although it is widely known as Madhur Ganapathi Temple, the principal deity is Lord Shiva, worshipped as Madanantheshwara or Anantheshwara. Lord Siddhivinayaka, however, has become the temple’s most famous and widely revered presence.
India’s unmanned-aircraft industry has moved rapidly from imported hobby platforms and experimental prototypes to indigenous
The platform processed 23.66 billion transactions during the month, with the total value reaching ₹29.88 lakh crore. Compared with June, transaction volume increased by 4.1 per cent from 22.72 billion, while transaction value rose by 3.3 per cent from ₹28.92 lakh crore.
