The government will put its draft National Steel Policy in the public domain for stakeholder consultation in about a week, Steel Secretary Sandeep Poundrik said on Tuesday.

The policy will target more than 600 million tonnes (MT) of steelmaking capacity and over 500 MT of consumption by 2047. About 45 MT of this is expected to be accounted for by exports, either directly or through steel embedded in manufactured products.

“These are conservative numbers,” Poundrik said at an event organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) here.

It will also propose a ₹5,000-crore scheme for small steel producers to incentivise production linked to reduction in carbon emissions. And, the Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS) for larger steel producers is expected to be notified “very soon,” Poundrik said on the sidelines of the event.

Four sites, including Udaigiri Caves, in Madhya Pradesh and places linked to Satyagraha, present both in India and South Africa, are the five new additions to the UNESCO Tentative List of World Heritage for India, officials have said.

PIB Culture, in a post on X, described it as a “proud milestone” for the country’s heritage.

“India’s UNESCO Tentative List now has 78 sites, with 5 additions: Bagh Cave Paintings, Group of Temples of the Chambal Valley, Udaigiri Caves, Ginnorgarh, and the India-South Africa serial transnational proposal, Sites of Satyagraha. A proud milestone for India’s rich heritage,” it posted on Tuesday.

The Udaigiri hill in Madhya Pradesh contains a rock-cut sacred ensemble developed primarily under Gupta patronage between the late 4th and early 5th centuries, according to the UNESCO website.

The Indian women's compound archery team delivered a sensational performance to beat China and retain the Asian Games gold medal with a world-record score here on Wednesday.

The Indian team comprising Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Chikitha Taniparthi, Prithika Pradeep dominated the summit clash, outclassing China 238-234 in the gold medal match to bag the top podium.

The Indians equalled Korea's world record in achieving the feat.

China team consisted of Wunier, Yue Wang and Fangyao Wei won the silver.

India had defeated South Korea 234-233 to reach the final at Okazaki Chuo Sogo Park here.

Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Tuesday appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri as the country's first woman prime minister after her Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) emerged as the largest party in last week's parliamentary elections.

The king asked El Mansouri to form a new government, according to a statement from the royal palace.

Under Morocco's constitution, the monarch appoints the head of government from the party that wins the most seats in the House of Representatives. While Morocco operates as a constitutional monarchy, the king retains broad authority over key areas including foreign policy, defence and strategic national decisions.

India won the gold medal in the archery mixed team compound event at the Okazaki Chuo Sogo Park Multipurpose Square in Nagoya on Wednesday.

The Indian team of Chikitha Taniparthi and Sahil Jadhav beat South Korea’s Jungyoon Park and Yonghee Choi via a shoot-off after the score was tied at 157-157 after four ends.

With the win, the Indian pair secured a place in the compound archery roster of the LA2028 Olympics.

Chikitha was also part of the women’s team that beat China 238-234 in the final to win India’s first archery gold of the ongoing competition. Earlier, she won India’s first-ever women’s individual gold medal in the compound category at the Junior World Championships.

The Government today launched Pashudhan Bima Portal in New Delhi. The Portal will provide a single, integrated digital platform for livestock insurance, enabling streamlined policy issuance, claim processing, monitoring and reporting in case of animals insured under the Livestock Insurance Scheme of the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying. Speaking on the occasion, Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Rajiv Ranjan Singh said that this initiative is aimed at making livestock insurance services more transparent, efficient, accessible and technology-driven, while strengthening risk protection for livestock farmers and supporting the sustainability of their livelihoods. More from our correspondent

The Pashu Dhan Bima Portal will facilitate better coordination, real-time monitoring and data-driven management of livestock insurance programmes, contributing to improved service delivery across the country. Mr Singh said that this portal is an important step towards protecting the livelihood of farmers and fulfilling the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to increase the farmer’s income, safeguard their agricultural and livestock assets and promote the use of technology. He said through this portal,farmers will now be able to submit their insurance applications online, while the entire process will be monitored digitally.

Indian space startup TakeMe2Space plans to launch what it describes as the country’s first orbital computing satellite aboard a SpaceX rocket on October 1, seeking to process data in orbit rather than transmit raw information back to Earth.

The ⁠company’s MOI-1A spacecraft, a sub-50 kg satellite carrying Nvidia Orin NX edge-computing processors, is scheduled to fly on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare mission.

TakeMe2Space said on Monday it has signed 23 customers for the mission, including geographic information system companies and educational institutions.

Commercial users span agriculture, mining, supply-chain management and insurance, Founder and ⁠CEO Ronak Samantray told Reuters. US-based space data analytics firm Little Place Labs is among its customers.

Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Monday launched the ‘Delhi Udyog Mitra’ portal under the ease of doing business initiative to bring various kinds of approvals and No Objection Certificates (NOCs) under one umbrella.

The single window portal will promote ease of doing business and help industrialists and entrepreneurs apply for different licenses and NOCs through it, Industries Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa said.

More than 15 departments and 50 services have been onboarded on the platform. By next month, 21 departments and more than 100 services will be onboarded, he told reporters.

The portal will also provide necessary information to entrepreneurs and industrialists who will not have to make rounds of different offices to obtain permissions, Sirsa said.

A joint military exercise involving troops from the armed forces of India and Kazakhstan began on September 28 and will continue until October 11, with a focus on enhancing interoperability and strengthening capabilities for joint counter-terrorism operations in a sub-conventional environment under a UN mandate.

The training will culminate with a "comprehensive validation exercise" wherein both contingents will jointly apply rehearsed tactics, techniques and procedures against a "simulated terrorist threat", officials said.

A 60-member contingent of the Indian armed forces departed today for Oskemen, Kazakhstan, to participate in the ninth edition of 'Exercise KAZIND 2026'.

The Indian contingent is drawn mainly from a battalion of the Garhwal Rifles, along with personnel from the Indian Air Force (IAF).

The Delhi government and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen cooperation in the cultural and academic sectors and provide Delhi’s artists and cultural groups greater opportunities on international platforms.

The MoU was signed in the presence of Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta. Delhi Cabinet ministers Manjinder Singh Sirsa and Kapil Mishra, along with senior officials from the concerned departments, were also present.

According to the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO), the agreement aims to establish an institutional partnership between the Delhi government and ICCR to promote cultural and academic cooperation. It is also intended to support Delhi’s culture, tourism and economy while contributing to ICCR’s cultural diplomacy initiatives.

Under the agreement, established and emerging artists from Delhi will get opportunities to participate in ICCR’s Horizon Series and international cultural festivals. The Delhi government will identify artists from disciplines including performing arts, literature, sculpture, textiles, architecture, culinary arts and handicrafts and enlist them with ICCR.