NRTS is an Indian Nursing Council initiative, developed with the National Informatics Centre, to create an integrated live register of nursing personnel. It supports verified enrolment and State-council workflows such as primary registration, reciprocal registration and recording additional qualifications.

It refers to nursing personnel appearing in State-level registration data but not represented in the national NRTS comparison reported by The Hindu. It is a registry-coverage gap, not automatically a workforce shortage, unemployment count or estimate of people practising without.

The INC Annual Report 2024-2025 reported 13,20,926 enrolled registered nurses as of 31 March 2025. This is a dated official figure, not a live August 2026 total. The preceding annual report recorded 11,76,375 as of 31 March 2024.

No. A NUID is a nationally verifiable identity within NRTS. The relevant State Nursing Registration Council remains responsible for professional registration and licensing. Reciprocal registration or transfer requirements may still apply when a nurse moves between jurisdictions.

Registers may include retired, deceased, migrated, inactive or duplicated records, and some State totals are updated at different times. An active-workforce estimate also needs current licence status, employment setting, location and availability, with transparent definitions and data-quality notes.

EVEREST is Astrobase Space Technologies’ integrated 80-tonne-class liquid rocket engine designed to use liquid oxygen and methane in a full-flow staged-combustion cycle. IN-SPACe material lists a planned 800 kN vacuum thrust and 50%-110% throttle capability. At unveiling, those were programme.

No public evidence cited with the unveiling established a completed full-scale integrated hot-fire. Reports refer to earlier sub-scale hot-fire work and turbopump trials, while the complete engine’s firing remained a future milestone. This distinction matters because only an integrated test.

FFSC uses two preburner paths: one fuel-rich and one oxidiser-rich. They drive separate turbopumps, and the resulting propellant-rich gases then enter the main chamber for final combustion. The cycle can support high performance and reusable-engine goals, but it demands difficult.

Methane generally burns with less soot than kerosene, which can reduce deposits in injectors and cooling passages. It also offers practical density and handling advantages over liquid hydrogen. These benefits can help repeated operation, but they do not by themselves.

IN-SPACe is an autonomous agency under the Department of Space. It promotes, enables, authorises and supervises space activities by non-government entities and coordinates access to public space infrastructure where applicable. Its role makes it central to both commercial growth and.

One Health surveillance connects information about human, animal and environmental health to detect and assess shared threats. It combines routine case and laboratory data with unusual-event reporting, then supports joint verification, risk assessment and response. It does not require every.

A zoonotic disease is an infection naturally transmissible between vertebrate animals and humans. Transmission may occur through direct contact, food, water, vectors or contaminated environments. Rabies, brucellosis, leptospirosis and zoonotic influenza are examples, although each has a different reservoir, route.

The reported collaboration involving Uttar Pradesh’s Animal Husbandry Department and Jhpiego aims to strengthen zoonotic-disease surveillance, early identification and reporting, laboratory systems and multisectoral outbreak response through a One Health approach. Publicly stated priorities establish the direction; operational coverage and.

The Quadripartite comprises the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Health Organization and the World Organisation for Animal Health. It developed the One Health Joint Plan of Action 2022-2026 to support.

The National One Health Mission provides a broad national vision for integrated disease control and pandemic preparedness across human, animal and environmental sectors. NCDC’s National One Health Programme for Prevention and Control of Zoonoses is a health-programme mechanism focused on.

Official data available on 9 August showed 7.67 crore person-days under VB-G RAM G in July 2026. July 2025 had recorded 15.33 crore person-days under MG-NREGS. The year-on-year decline was 49.94%, equal to roughly 7.66 crore fewer days of realised.

One person working for one day generates one person-day. If 20 workers each work for five days, they generate 100 person-days. The measure combines participation and duration, so it is different from the number of households, workers, worksites or work.

No. The fall proves that recorded, realised work was lower. Identifying the cause requires separate data on demands registered, employment offered, worksites opened, attendance, days completed and MIS timing. Genuine demand, implementation constraints and transition effects may all influence the.

VB-G RAM G came into force on 1 July 2026, making July its first nationwide month. Existing verified job cards and ongoing works were officially meant to continue, but a legal, financial and digital transition can still create administrative friction.

The Act provides up to 125 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every eligible rural household whose adult members volunteer for unskilled manual work. The entitlement belongs to the household, not separately to every adult member.

No. The government’s August 2026 clarification says ordinary UPI transactions will remain free for users. A change that gives the government flexibility over payment charges does not itself impose a fee. Any operative charge would need a separate instrument identifying.

Merchant Discount Rate is a merchant-side payment-processing charge linked to acceptance infrastructure. It is paid within the acquiring arrangement and may be shared among ecosystem participants. It is different from a fee directly debited from a customer and different from.

No such universal charge follows from the clarification. The government says the vast majority of merchant transactions will remain free, with individuals and small merchants protected. A future levy, if adopted, must define eligible merchant categories and other conditions through.

UPI requires spending on switching, cybersecurity, fraud controls, settlement, customer support and dispute resolution. A limited merchant charge is one possible way to fund these services and reduce dependence on budget incentives, but it must be weighed against acceptance, inclusion.

No. The amount transferred does not attract GST merely because the payer used UPI. GST can apply to a taxable payment-processing service charge when such a charge exists. This distinction is why a reported merchant fee should not be described.

It is the ability to follow a milk lot through procurement, collection, chilling, transport, processing, packaging, distribution and sale. A working system links supplier identity, test results, custody changes, batch transformations and destinations, allowing regulators to trace a failed batch.

No. Traceability records where a batch came from, how it moved and where it went. Purity, safety and compositional conformity require representative sampling and accredited laboratory analysis. Strong enforcement uses both: records locate responsibility and exposure, while testing establishes the.

FSSAI lays down national science-based food standards, while FSSAI and State Food Authorities jointly implement and enforce the Food Safety and Standards Act. State Food Safety Commissioners, Designated Officers and Food Safety Officers carry out licensing, surveillance, inspection, sampling and.

Backward records can identify the supplier, collection centre, tanker or processing event associated with a suspect batch. Forward records show which distributors and retailers received it. This can make withdrawal faster, improve recall completeness and reduce unnecessary destruction of unaffected.

Adulteration usually involves deliberate addition, substitution, abstraction or concealment that changes a food’s nature or quality. Substandard milk may fail a prescribed parameter, such as fat or solids-not-fat, without necessarily being unsafe. Contamination may arise without fraud through hygiene, feed.

On 7 August 2026, the Government of India, in consultation with Arunachal Pradesh, identified standard names for 27 places and features on official Survey of India maps. PIB said the purpose was accurate recognition and better public awareness. The step.

The official list contains 21 land areas, four passes, one lake and one monument. The passes are Dzo La, Riza La, Pukur La and Thag La. Sambho Sarovar is the lake, and Sher-e-Thapa Memorial is the monument. This classification is.

The Survey of India is India’s national mapping agency under the Department of Science and Technology. Placing standard names on its official maps gives government departments and the public an authoritative reference for geography, databases and administration, unlike an informal.

China claims Arunachal Pradesh and portrayed India’s move as a unilateral action affecting the climate of bilateral relations. India rejects that claim and has repeatedly stated that Arunachal Pradesh is an integral and inalienable part of India. The dispute makes.

A name can demonstrate administration, public communication and a State’s asserted position, but it does not by itself settle territorial title or move a boundary. Boundary claims are evaluated through a wider body of legal, historical and administrative evidence, effective.

CCMP is the Certificate Course in Modern Pharmacology approved by Maharashtra for registered homeopathic practitioners. The Union Health Ministry described it in 2025 as a one-year course permitting modern-medicine treatment only when needed and only within the learning covered by.

No. The pathway retains the practitioner’s BHMS qualification and adds a state-approved certificate with a limited scope. Separate registration with the Maharashtra Medical Council does not convert BHMS into MBBS or establish equivalence with the full MBBS curriculum.

The state’s stated policy objective is to strengthen health services in rural and remote areas by using an existing health workforce for limited primary care. The policy case still has to be tested against competence, patient-safety, supervision and referral requirements.

In September 2025, the Court declined to stop registration at the interim stage. It said registrations would remain subject to the final outcome of the main petitions, registrants could claim no equities, and practice must stay within course-defined competencies.

The main concern is not pharmacology in isolation but whether limited training supports safe diagnosis, drug selection, interaction checks, monitoring and timely referral. Ambiguous titles may also prevent patients from understanding the practitioner’s actual qualification and scope.