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allocation
Commodities Government Maintains Sugar Allocation for July at Year-Ago Level as Prices Rise
The Indian government has maintained July's sugar allocation at 22 lakh tonnes, the same as last year, despite rising retail prices. Cumulative quotas for the 2025-26 season are 3% lower than last season. The export ban remains in place until September 30, with no exports likely in the next season.
PolyKV: Layer-Wise KV Cache Compression Boosts LLM Inference Efficiency by Up to 54.5%
PolyKV is a new framework for compressing the key-value cache in large language model inference. It selects a compression policy per transformer layer and allocates non-uniform cache budgets, outperforming uniform approaches. On LongBench tasks, PolyKV recovers 40%-54.5% of the performance gap between the strongest single-policy baseline and full KV cache.
Fertiliser Ministry Seeks 100% Increase in FY27 Subsidy Amid West Asia Crisis
The Indian fertiliser ministry has approached the finance ministry seeking a 100% increase in the fertiliser subsidy budget for FY27, from Rs 1.71 lakh crore, as global prices rise due to the West Asia conflict. Domestic production is increasing, but imports remain significant, with urea imports exceeding 100 lakh tonnes last fiscal. The government assures adequate stocks for the kharif season, with over 51% of requirement already available.