PARLIAMNENT QUESTION: STRENGTHENING CLIMATE MONITORING AND WEATHER FORECASTING SYSTEMS

India, July 30 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The Government has undertaken several measures to strengthen and modernise climate monitoring and weather forecasting systems in response to the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. The Government has adopted advanced, state-of-the-art techniques, including high-performance computing (HPC) facilities to support high-resolution numerical weather prediction (NWP) and climate modeling, observational systems, a...


Government Strengthens Framework to Counter AI-Generated Deepfakes through Legal Safeguards, Platform Accountability and Citizen Protection

India, July 30 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The Government remains conscious of the threats posed by deepfakes powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), including synthetic audio, video and text. With an aim to ensure an open, safe, trusted and accountable cyberspace for users, Government of India has enacted the following laws and rules that address various aspects of the deepfake challenge: The Information Technology Act, 2000 ("IT Act") The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita,2023 (...


Government Adopts Multi-Pronged Roadmap to Build a Robust Semiconductor Talent Pipeline Across Design, Manufacturing and Advanced Packaging

India, July 30 -- The Government of India has issued a release: S. No. Institute Location 1. Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore Coimbatore 2. SNS College of Technology, Coimbatore Coimbatore 3. National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli Tiruchirappalli 4. Indian Institute of Information Technology Tiruchirappalli Tiruchirappalli 5. Anna University Regional Campus Coimbatore Coimbatore 6. Mohamed Sathak Engineering College, Ramanathapu...


Government Strengthens Cyber Resilience Against AI-Enabled Cyber Threats through AI-Driven Detection, Vulnerability Assessment and Threat Intelligence

India, July 30 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The Government is cognizant of the evolving cyber security threats and challenges, including those arising from Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled cyber threats. AI technologies may increase systemic cyber risks by enabling automated reconnaissance, rapid vulnerability exploitation, credential compromise and highly convincing multilingual social engineering campaigns. These capabilities lower attack costs, accelerate weaponizatio...


PARLIAMENT QUESTION: Compliance by industries

India, July 30 -- The Government of India has issued a release: City Specific Clean Air Action Plans have been prepared for 130 cities under National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) mainly to target air pollution sources like soil & road dust, vehicular emissions, waste burning, construction & demolition activities and greening activities. State Action Plans prepared under NCAP address industrial pollution through framing polices for use of approved fuels by industries, promotion of clean technolo...


IMPLEMENTATION OF SECTION 51A OF UAPA, 1967: UPDATES TO UNSC'S 1988 (2011) TALIBAN SANCTIONS LIST: AMENDMENT OF 05 ENTRIES:

MUMBAI, India, July 31 -- Reserve Bank of India issued the following notification: RBI/2026-27/222 DOR.AML.REC.192/14.06.001/2026-27 July 31, 2026 The Chairpersons/ CEOs of the Commercial Banks, Small Finance Banks, Payment Banks, Urban Co-operative Banks, Rural Co-operative Banks, Regional Rural Banks, Local Area Banks, Non-Banking Financial Companies, Asset Reconstruction Companies, All India Financial Institutions Madam/Dear Sir, Implementation of Section 51A of UAPA, 1967: Upd...


MONEY MARKET OPERATIONS AS ON JULY 30, 2026

MUMBAI, India, July 31 -- Reserve Bank of India issued the following press release: (Amount in ₹ crore, Rate in Per cent) MONEY MARKETS@ -- > Money Markets@ Volume (One Leg) Weighted Average Rate Range A. Overnight Segment (I+II+III+IV) 6,92,388.98 5.24 1.00-5.55 I. Call Money 13,812.42 5.29 4.30-5.40 II. Triparty Repo 4,79,902.60 5.27 5.00-5.48 III. Market Repo 1,92,009.51 5.16 1.00-5.55 IV. Repo in Corporate Bond 6,664.45 5.32 5.26-5.55 B. Term Segment I. Notice Money** 344.65 5.19...


SCHEDULED BANKS' STATEMENT OF POSITION IN INDIA AS ON JULY 15, 2026

MUMBAI, India, July 31 -- Reserve Bank of India issued the following press release: (Amount in ₹ crore) SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS (Including RRBs, SFBs and PBs) ALL SCHEDULED BANKS 11-Jul-2025# 30-Jun-2026 15-Jul-2026 11-Jul-2025# 30-Jun-2026 15-Jul-2026 I LIABILITIES TO THE BKG.SYSTEM (A) a) Demand & Time deposits from banks 341401.19 442406.58 431274.49 347187.44 450246.63 439035.37** b) Borrowings from banks 95570.56 59124.89 65188.32 95575.46 60017.98 65405.84 c) Other de...


RESULT OF UNDERWRITING AUCTION CONDUCTED ON JULY 31, 2026

MUMBAI, India, July 31 -- Reserve Bank of India issued the following press release: In the underwriting auction conducted on July 31, 2026, for Additional Competitive Underwriting (ACU) of the undernoted Government security, the Reserve Bank of India has set the cut-off rate for underwriting commission payable to Primary Dealers as given below: Nomenclature of the Security Notified Amount (₹ crore) Minimum Underwriting Commitment (MUC) Amount (₹ crore) Additional Competitive Unde...


GOVERNMENT STOCK - AUCTION RESULTS: CUT-OFF

MUMBAI, India, July 31 -- Reserve Bank of India issued the following press release: 6.94% GS 2036 I. Notified Amount ₹34,000 crore II. Cut off Price (₹) / Implicit Yield at cut-off 100.89/6.8117% III. Amount accepted in the auction ₹34,000 crore IV. Devolvement on Primary Dealers NIL Ajit Prasad Deputy General Manager (Communications) Press Release: 2026-2027/785 Disclaimer: Curated by HT Syndication....