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With this latest approval, the total number of houses sanctioned under PMAY-Urban 2.0 has crossed 16.13 lakh. The newly approved houses cover 16 states, with around 1.89 lakh houses under the Beneficiary-Led Construction vertical and more than 23,000 houses under the Affordable Housing in Partnership vertical.
The Face Challenge was won by Innovatrics of Slovakia, followed by IDBio from the United States and Neurotechnology of Lithuania. In the Iris Challenge, IDBio secured the first position, followed by Neurotechnology and Innovatrics. The result shows that UIDAI’s benchmarking platform attracted high-quality international participation while also giving Indian companies and institutions a chance to test their capabilities against global systems.
The milestone is being discussed in relation to India’s post-election prime ministerial record. Reports note that on 10 June 2026, Prime Minister Modi completes 4,399 consecutive days in office as Prime Minister, moving past Jawaharlal Nehru’s elected-era uninterrupted record of 4,398 days after India’s first general elections.
The Jammu centre represents more than an administrative expansion of the India Meteorological Department. It is a strategic weather hub for one of India’s most sensitive and geographically demanding zones. The Himalayan belt faces cloudbursts, flash floods, avalanches, heavy snowfall, thunderstorms, landslides and sudden temperature changes. These events affect pilgrims, farmers, transport networks, hydropower projects, security forces, tourists and disaster-response agencies. A dedicated regional centre in Jammu gives the area a closer, sharper and more specialised forecasting system.
The AJAY Mobile App is particularly important because it takes the scheme closer to the field. Welfare programmes often depend on village-level surveys, local planning, physical inspections, beneficiary identification and progress verification. When these steps remain paper-heavy, implementation can become slow and difficult to monitor. The new app allows field functionaries to carry out planning, reporting, inspections, photo uploads and updates through a mobile interface, giving administrators a clearer view of what is happening on the ground.
. The order, issued through the Land & Development Office under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, directs the club to hand over its 27.3-acre property at 2, Safdarjung Road by 5 June 2026. The official reason given is that the land is required for strengthening defence-related infrastructure and other vital public security purposes.
The IP Catalyst initiative is being implemented by CDAC Pune with support from MeitY. Its purpose is to create a comprehensive digital ecosystem that supports the complete innovation lifecycle — from research and IP creation to technology transfer, commercialisation and market deployment. According to the official release, the initiative is designed to bridge the gap between publicly funded R&D and industry adoption by improving collaboration among MeitY organisations, startups, MSMEs, academia and industry.
The development is significant because Common Criteria certification is one of the most recognised global frameworks for evaluating the security claims of IT products.
APT 2.0 is aimed at changing how postal branches function on the ground. Instead of depending only on manual reporting and delayed administrative feedback, branch offices can now use digital insights to study local demand, track service performance and respond more quickly to customer needs. This gives India Post a more data-driven operating model, especially in rural and semi-urban areas where postal services remain a critical public interface.
The newly introduced products include an AI-enabled “Forecast of Monsoon Advance over Different Parts of the Country” and a “High Spatial Resolution Rainfall Forecast for Uttar Pradesh” as a pilot service. These systems have been jointly developed by the India Meteorological Department, the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, and the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting.
