The new mission represents a major increase from the ₹76,000 crore allocated under the first phase and was announced as part of the Union Budget 2026–27. ISM 2.0 is designed to accelerate the development of a complete semiconductor ecosystem, covering chip design, manufacturing, semiconductor equipment, raw materials, indigenous intellectual property, and resilient supply chains.
The achievement comes nearly a decade after AGEL commissioned its first renewable energy project at Kamuthi, Tamil Nadu, in 2016. During FY26, the company added 5,051 MW of renewable energy capacity, marking one of the largest annual additions by any renewable energy company outside China.
Domestic GST collections stood at ₹1.35 lakh crore, reflecting a 6.5% increase compared to the same month last year. Meanwhile, GST collected on imports surged 34.6% to ₹60,038 crore, making it the biggest contributor to the month’s overall growth.
Shri Piyush Goyal said that the launch marks another important milestone in the global expansion of India’s digital payment ecosystem. He said that, with UPI now live in Greece, eligible customers can transfer money instantly, securely, and seamlessly, with transaction costs reduced significantly to a fraction of those associated with conventional money transfer methods.
General Dhiraj Seth is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, and was commissioned into the Armoured Corps in December 1986. Over a distinguished military career spanning nearly four decades, he has had extensive experience across the operational, strategic, capability development and institutional domains, contributing significantly to the Indian Army’s combat effectiveness and long-term transformation.
ICMEs are massive blasts of magnetized plasma released from the Sun’s outer atmosphere, which then travel through interplanetary space. When those ICMEs are directed towards us and encounter Earth’s magnetic field, they can disturb it and cause geomagnetic storms.
The project seeks to commercialize an indigenous next-generation load sensing technology designed for elevators, material handling systems, cable machinery, industrial automation, and other safety-critical applications.
The framework will be uniformly applicable across projects being implemented under various modes of construction, thereby creating a consistent quality assurance mechanism across different project delivery formats.
The Kayamkulam Raja was not merely a local chief. He represented one of the notable ruling houses of central Kerala during a time when the region was divided into several principalities. These kingdoms were small in size compared with later Travancore, but they were politically alert, militarily active and deeply connected to trade, temple culture and local warrior traditions.
The outcome was not accidental. It was the result of years of preparation, diversified sourcing, refinery flexibility, emergency regulation, consumer protection measures and coordinated work between the Centre, oil marketing companies, refineries, state governments and infrastructure regulators.
