The top five states in terms of increase in forest cover are Andhra Pradesh (647 sq km), Telangana (632 sq km), Odisha (537 sq km), Karnataka (155 sq km) and Jharkhand (110 sq km).
India's gross domestic product (GDP) is likely to grow at 5.8 percent in the third quarter of the financial year 2022, as per the latest SBI research report.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated 11 new government medical colleges and a new campus of the Central Institute of Classical Tamil in Tamil Nadu via video conferencing.
Indian Forest Service officer, Chandra Prakash Goyal has been appointed as Director-General of Forests and Special Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
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