The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) reported that central government ministries and departments generated over ₹5,100 crore in revenue through office scrap disposal and weeded out millions of obsolete physical files over the past five years.
Representatives of six basin states — Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan — signed a historic inter-state agreement on Wednesday to construct the ₹12,000 crore Kishau Multipurpose Dam Project on the Tons River, a major tributary of the Yamuna.
India observed Hindi Diwas on Sunday, celebrating the historical adoption of Hindi in Devanagari script as one of the official languages of the Union of India.