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Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2026: Why January 9 Still Matters for India’s Diaspora Strategy 0
- India, Initiatives
- January 7, 2026
(Key Highlights) Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is observed on 9 January every year, and the Ministry of External Affairs notes it has been celebrated since 2003 to recognize the contribution of the overseas Indian community. MEA India The date is tied to 9 January 1915, when Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from South Africa. MEA India For a modern reader, the relevance
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“Prominent Pollutant” Isn’t a Buzzword: It’s the Number That Wins the AQI Fight 0
- Explainers & Reports, HEALTH
- January 7, 2026
Key highlights People often assume AQI is an average. The official method says otherwise. CPCB’s AQI framework—spelled out in NCAP documentation—explains that AQI is built by calculating sub-indices for key pollutants, and then the worst sub-index determines the overall AQI. Prana That one sentence is the cleanest explanation of “prominent pollutant” you can give without dramatics: the pollutant
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The AQI Dashboard That Won’t Let You Look Away: Reading India’s Winter Air in Real Time 0
- Explainers & Reports, HEALTH
- January 7, 2026
Key highlights India doesn’t need a new conversation about winter air. It needs a stricter one. CPCB’s AQI framework exists precisely to convert complex pollutant data into a number ordinary citizens can understand. The NCAP documentation describes AQI as a communication tool that compresses multiple pollutant readings into a single index value with categories and
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7 January 2026: Coal & Mines Committee Meeting on PSU Tech Upgradation (Coal India and Beyond)0
- State Economy
- January 6, 2026
Key highlights Coal is politically unfashionable in elite conversation—but it remains economically foundational. India can build solar, wind, nuclear, and green hydrogen at scale (and it should), but it still needs stable baseload and industrial heat while the transition matures. That’s why “technology upgradation” inside coal PSUs isn’t a small bureaucratic topic. It usually means:
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