India's 19-year-old Grandmaster Pranesh M won the Kanizsa Open 2026 chess tournament held in Nagykanizsa, Hungary. The title adds to the growing list of international successes by young Indian chess players.
The National Security Guard (NSG) has started India's first Mahila Commando Conversion Course (MCCC) at its Training Academy in Manesar, Haryana. The course is being conducted under the theme "She Who Dares, Leads." It marks a step towards training women personnel for commando roles in the country's elite counter-terror force.
The ICAR-National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources (NBAGR) has formally registered the Periyar cow, also called Periyar Kullan, as an indigenous cattle breed. It is the second breed from Kerala to gain national recognition, after the Vechur cow, one of India's smallest cattle breeds.
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) has cleared about 1,800 km of LPG pipelines with an estimated investment of ₹7,000 crore, to be developed by state-owned GAIL (India) Limited. They will pass through Telangana, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Karnataka and Goa. The projects are Cherlapally-Nagpur (556 km), Jhansi-Sitarganj (611 km) and Shikrapur-Goa & Hubli (633 km).
For the first time, Census 2027 will not count beggars and vagrants as a separate category; they will be grouped under 'others' within non-economic activity. In Census 2011 only about 3.8 lakh people declared themselves beggars or vagrants, against 6.3 lakh in 2001 and 5.4 lakh in 1991.
India's solar photovoltaic module manufacturing capacity has reached 100 GW, up from 2.3 GW in 2014, while cell capacity stood at 25 GW and wafer capacity about 2 GW by March 2025. Import dependence is still close to 100% for polysilicon, above 90% for wafers, above 60% for cells and above 40% for modules, mostly from China.
The Unified Payments Interface (UPI), launched in 2016 by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), completed 10 years on 25 August 2026. Annual transactions grew from 1.78 crore in FY 2016-17 to more than 24,162 crore in FY 2025-26, about a 13,000-fold jump, while transaction value rose from ₹0.07 lakh crore to roughly ₹314 lakh crore, over 4,000 times.…
Tamil Nadu is set to launch the 'Thaimaman Thanga Mothiram Thittam' on September 15, 2026, giving a 1-gram gold ring, reported to be BIS-hallmarked, to eligible newborns delivered in Government health institutions. Babies born on or after June 22, 2026 will also be covered, regardless of gender or birth order.
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