NEW DELHI, 22 October : The National Statistics Office put real GDP growth for April–June 2026 at 7.8%. Real output reached Rs 81.36 lakh crore against Rs 75.46 lakh crore a year earlier.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave the mission a new line, at the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Sabha in New Delhi marking his 25 years as head of a government. “The 140 crore citizens together will build a developed India by 2047, and we certainly will,” he said, according to DD India’s report of the address, before closing on three words: “We Will Do It.”
What India gains
If the pace holds by the World Bank’s reckoning, a country of 140 crore people crosses into high income within a single working life.
India’s clean power capacity crosses 308 GW
NEW DELHI: India’s non-fossil power capacity stood at 308.03 GW on 30 September, according to the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy’s. The country added 24.56 GW in the first six months of 2026-27, and 20.79 GW of that — 84.7% — was solar.
The milestone before it came on 31 July, when the ministry announced that non-fossil capacity had crossed 300 GW, making up “over 54%” of India’s installed capacity of about 552 GW. The national target is 500 GW of non-fossil capacity by 2030.
What India gains
Every gigawatt of sun, wind and atom is fuel the country does not import, and power priced in rupees.
Bengaluru metro fares miss projections by wide margin: CAG
NEW DELHI, 22 October: Between 2016-17 and 2022-23 the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation earned Rs 1,758.13 crore from fares against the Rs 7,736.70 crore its project reports projected — 22.72% , These figures are from the Comptroller and Auditor General’s Performance Audit Report
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What India gains
Is a lesson priced in rupees, at the moment more than 1,155 km of metro is running across Indian cities and more is being planned.
IISc team develops home-grown anti venom for Indian cobras
BENGALURU, 22 October: India loses nearly 50,000 people a year to snakebite, more than any other country, according to the Indian Institute of Science. Researchers at IISc’s Centre for Ecological Sciences, with the Technical University of Denmark, have built a recombinant antivenom that protected mice against venom from the spectacled cobra, the monocled cobra and both Indian king cobra species.
What India gains
Is a home-built antivenom designed for Indian snakes, from an Indian laboratory, for the country that carries the world’s heaviest snakebite toll.
India’s defence production hit record Rs 1.78 lakh crore
NEW DELHI, 22 October: India’s defence production reached an all-time high of Rs 1.78 lakh crore in 2025-26, up 15.6% from Rs 1.54 lakh crore, the Ministry of Defence. Exports hit a record Rs 38,424 crore. The private sector’s share of production rose to 24% from 22%. The 2029 targets are Rs 3 lakh crore of production and Rs 50,000 crore of exports.
Ayushman Bharat turns eight, treats 13 crore beneficiaries
NEW DELHI, 22 October: Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY completed eight years with more than 48 crore 54 lakh Ayushman cards issued and about 13 crore beneficiaries treated cashless.
The scheme covers more than 60 crore people with an annual cover of Rs 5 lakh, has spent more than Rs 2 lakh crore, and has 38,000 empanelled hospitals.
