4 September 2026

In the third edition, the department started Special Campaign 3 on 7th July, 2026, for the timely and qualitative redressal of long-pending pension grievances/claims/issues.

Data Release and Surveys Volume XXII | Issue 4 | August 2026 MONETARY & CREDIT INFORMATION REVIEW Note from the Editor Governor Shri Sanjay Malhotra announced the MPC's decision on August 5, 2026, following the third Bi-monthly Meeting for 2026-27, to keep the repo rate unchanged at 5.25 per cent, the SDF rate at 5.00 per cent and the MSF rate and Bank Rate at 5.50 per cent, with the stance retained at neutral.

A recent study found significantly higher caterpillar predation in Kerala’s sacred groves than in nearby multi-storied home gardens, indicating these small forest patches help sustain predator-prey interactions.

Plasticine caterpillars are widely used in ecological studies because predators leave distinctive bite marks on the soft models, allowing researchers to identify the broad groups responsible for the attacks without directly observing predation.

Green and reddish-brown artificial caterpillars, representing the most common caterpillar colours observed at the sites, were placed on leaves, branches and stems of trees and retrieved after 48 hours.

The Himachal Pradesh High Court has held that merely because a person is deaf and dumb, it cannot be presumed that he is of unsound mind so as to necessitate appointment of a guardian under Order XXXII Rule 3 of the Code of Civil Procedure (CPC).

Som Dev was a person of unsound mind which is the fundamental requirement for proceeding under Order 32 Rule 3 of CPC.

The El Niño is expected to gain strength over the second half of the monsoon season (August-September), the India Meteorological Department confirmed.

The Manual was revised as a result of a landmark case filed in the Supreme Court by the political organisation Swaraj Abhiyan in 2015.

After the second step is triggered, the final step involves ground truthing, where states conduct a sample survey to make a final determination of drought severity.

The unit recently helped France and Spain after a two-year investigation to bust an Algerian criminal gang that made up to €24 million by smuggling migrants from Algeria.

“Every parent of any child who willfully omits, without lawful excuse, to furnish necessary food, clothing, shelter, or medical attendance for such child, is guilty of a misdemeanor,” reads the 1887 edition of Idaho territory statutes, published before statehood.

An officer and a doctor visited the home after neighbors voiced concern.

Days after the girl’s death, a judge ordered the state to take custody of her 10-year-old brother under Idaho’s child protection law.

A UK inmate who helped a former British soldier who spied for Iran to evade police after he escaped from prison has been sentenced to four and a half years in jail.

A nationwide manhunt was launched when Daniel Khalife broke out of Wandsworth Prison on September 6, 2023, by strapping himself to the underside of a food delivery lorry.

After a two-week trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court, Khan was found guilty in July of assisting an offender.

CISA added CVE-2026-59310, affecting Broadcom VMware vCenter, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Broadcom VMware vCenter contains a path traversal vulnerability which could allow a threat actor with network access to vCenter to execute arbitrary code.

The catalog lists 2026-08-21 as the due date; that date had passed by this edition.

CISA added CVE-2026-33824, affecting Microsoft Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Service Extensions, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Microsoft Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Service Extensions contains a double free vulnerability that could enable remote code execution.

The catalog lists 2026-08-21 as the due date; that date had passed by this edition.

The codes have been archived in Figshare (https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30003112).

When segments do not cross zero (upper and lower boundaries of the estimated marginal means), it indicates the relationship between SPEI and BAI is significant; e Tree-growth resistance to drought; f Recovery after drought (years); and g Tree-growth overall resilience to drought.

The standardized values in the five years before the selected drought year (negative values), the drought event (zero value) and the five years after the selected drought year (positive values) are shown.

On the origin of the translation system and the genetic code in the RNA world by means of natural selection, exaptation, and subfunctionalization.

L. tRNAs are stable after all: pitfalls in quantification of tRNA from starved Escherichia coli cultures exposed by validation of RNA purification methods. mBio 14, e0280522 (2023).

L. tRNAs are stable after all: pitfalls in quantification of tRNA from starved Escherichia coli cultures exposed by validation of RNA purification methods. mBio 14, e0280522 (2023).

A team of 32 researchers began investigating air pollution from the docks in 2018.

A new EU directive will require ultrafine particle measurements, including around pollution hotspots such as ports and airports, but this does not apply in the UK.