Economy
NMDC Limited: Iron-Ore Production, Navratna PSU & Mining
Why in news? NMDC Limited has become the first mining company in India to produce 50 million tonnes of iron ore in a single financial year. The achiev...
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Why in news? NMDC Limited has become the first mining company in India to produce 50 million tonnes of iron ore in a single financial year. The achiev...
Why in news? On 13 March 2026 the Prime Minister virtually inaugurated the 120 MW Lower Kopili Hydroelectric Project in central Assam. The run‑of‑...
Why in news? Scientists have reported the discovery of a new earthworm species called Drawida vazhania from the Vazhani Dam area in the Peechi‑Vazha...
Why in news? Scientists from the National Pusa Collection at the ICAR‑Indian Agricultural Research Institute have discovered two new species of micr...
Why in news? On 14 March 2026 the Union Minister of Communications, Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, inaugurated the first Samriddhi Kendra in Umri village, G...
Why in news? On 13 March 2026 the Supreme Court of India took suo motu cognisance of rampant illegal sand mining in the National Chambal Sanctuary and...
Why in news? The Union Cabinet’s approval of Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0 introduced a comprehensive digital framework called Sujalam Bharat to monitor ru...
Why in news? Scientists from the SETI Institute have identified a rare iron sulphate, ferric hydroxysulphate, in layered deposits near Mars’s vast V...
Why in news? An ancient Telugu inscription linked to the 15th‑century Gajapati kings was found on a stone pillar in the Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temp...
Why in news? Researchers have discovered a new species of catfish, Amblyceps vayavy, in the hill streams of Goa and Maharashtra in the northern Wester...
Why in news? Laboratory experiments simulating the conditions on Saturn’s moon Titan have shown that acrylonitrile, a molecule present in Titan’s ...
Why in news? On 12 March 2026 a U.S. Air Force KC‑135 Stratotanker aircraft crashed in western Iraq during Operation Epic Fury. All six crew members...
