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Thursday, July 31, 2025
TopicSurvey of India

Topic: Survey of India

Survey of India ties up with private firm for ‘dynamic digital mapping’, cities set to get 3D ‘twins’

The digital twin cities will mirror real urban landscape and these high-resolutions maps are expected to help in urban planning, development, navigation & disaster preparedness.

3 institutions headless for a year—Indian research, scholarship has an institutional problem

The Survey of India in Dehradun, the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies in Shimla, and the National Library of India in Kolkata have been without a chief for over a year. But administrative life goes on.

How govt drone survey is clearing up land ownership in villages across India

Under SVAMITVA scheme, launched in 2021, maps are prepared to verify ownership of non-agricultural land in villages. States have used this to issue 1.32 crore property cards so far.

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Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.