Himachal & Uttarakhand Snowfall 2026: What Impacts Plains Weather
Key Highlights Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand are often treated as “hill-station winter stories,” but snowfall in these states can act like a weather lever for the plains. Winter 2026 will likely continue this pattern: what happens in the mountains doesn’t stay in the mountains. The key connector is the western disturbance. IMD forecasts frequently tie winter rainfall/snowfall over Jammu–Kashmir–Ladakh, Himachal, …
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Uttar Pradesh Winter Readiness: What to Track Before You Step Out
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January 1, 2026
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Key highlights UP winters don’t usually ruin your day with rain. They ruin it with visibility. IMD’s live warning line from the Regional Meteorological Centre, New Delhi clearly points to what many UP residents already feel: dense to very dense fog in parts of UP and cold-day conditions, especially in East Uttar Pradesh. Mausam And IMD’s subdivision-wise warning page gives a tighter signal—showing Cold Day warnings for East …
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Air Numbers, Real Lives: Why “City vs City” AQI Comparisons Get Messier in 2026
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January 1, 2026
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Key highlights Every winter, India’s air becomes a scoreboard—and the temptation is to declare winners and losers. But AQI isn’t a cricket table. It’s a stitched-together picture from monitoring stations, and the stitching shows. Start with what the government itself signals. CPCB’s AQI interfaces can throw up messages like “Insufficient data for computing AQI”—not as drama, but as a reminder that …
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January 2026 Reality Check: What the Festive GST Spike Still Tells Us (and What It Never Could)
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January 1, 2026
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Key highlights January 2026 is when the festive hangover turns into financial discipline. That’s exactly why October’s GST number still matters now: not as a victory lap, but as a baseline for what “normal demand” might look like when the calendar resets. The official release for October 2025 puts the topline cleanly: ₹1,95,936 crore in gross GST collections, a 4.6% year-on-year increase. Press Information Bureau+1 It …
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Base-Year Revision: The Statistical Earthquake India Is Walking Into in 2026
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January 1, 2026
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Key highlights Base-year revisions sound technical, but they are quietly transformative. They decide how the country measures itself. In late 2025, MoSPI convened consultative workshops specifically focused on revising the base years for GDP, CPI, and IIP—an institutional signal that India wants its macro lens to reflect newer consumption and production realities. Press Information Bureau+1 What makes this particularly newsworthy is …
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CPI Turns the Corner: Why India’s Inflation Story Re-entered the Room Before 2026
Key highlights The November CPI print does not scream crisis—but it does quietly revoke complacency. After October’s negative headline inflation, November’s return to 0.10% (provisional) resets the mental model for 2026: prices may not be “done” with us. Stats & Programme Ministry In editorial terms, this is the moment when the national conversation shifts from celebrating moderation to re-checking assumptions—especially for discretionary spending and …
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BRICS Presidency 2026: India Takes the Chair on January 1—What Changes, What Doesn’t
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January 1, 2026
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(Key Highlights) India’s turn at the BRICS helm is expected to begin 1 January 2026, according to a Ministry of External Affairs tender document linked to India’s BRICS presidency preparations. MEA India If you’re a reader trying to decode what this means in real life: BRICS presidencies don’t flip a magic switch on day one. Think of it as India becoming the agenda-setter—the …
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Bulgaria Adopts the Euro — A Monetary Switch With Political Consequences
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January 1, 2026
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Key highlights Money is never just money. Bulgaria’s move into the euro area on 1 January 2026 is a historic act of integration that will be sold as stability and modernization—and criticized, inevitably, as surrender of monetary identity. European Central Bank+1 Geopolitically, the euro is a signal: it tightens Bulgaria’s embedding in the EU’s core economic structures. For businesses, it simplifies …
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Five New Countries Join the UN Security Council — Fresh Votes, Familiar Gridlock
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January 1, 2026
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Key highlights January reshapes the UN Security Council’s elected bench. Five new non-permanent members begin their terms, adding fresh priorities and new diplomatic style to the Council’s daily negotiations. United Nations Peacekeeping This matters because the Security Council is where the world’s conflicts are debated with the highest stakes—sanctions, mandates, peacekeeping renewals—yet also where paralysis is common. New elected members can’t …
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Cyprus Takes the EU Council Presidency — Europe’s Agenda Gets a Mediterranean Accent
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January 1, 2026
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Key highlights On 1 January 2026, Cyprus takes over the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union. This is not the EU presidency people imagine as a single “leader.” It’s closer to being the chief meeting manager of the EU’s ministerial machine—deciding priorities, pushing dossiers forward, and negotiating the fine print when countries disagree. Consilium+1 Why this matters geopolitically: 2026 is …
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