India launched the official website and logo for its BRICS Presidency 2026, coinciding with the grouping's 20th anniversary, under the theme of building for resilience, innovation, cooperation and sustainability.
India ended its Consumer Price Index series with 2012 as the base year and will launch a new CPI series with 2024 as the base year; the NSO released the final December 2025 data under the old base, with the new series effective from the next month.
The DRDO conducted a long-duration ground test of an actively cooled full-scale scramjet combustor, demonstrating sustained hypersonic-propulsion performance for over 12 minutes.
The Indian Army signed a Rs 168 crore contract for the Medium Altitude Persistent Surveillance System (MAPSS), India's first solar-powered surveillance drone, developed by New Space Research & Technologies, Bengaluru under the iDEX framework.
In January 2026, the Government of India expanded its public health initiatives with a focus on improving accessibility, infrastructure, and preventive healthcare services. The expansion aimed to strengthen primary healthcare systems, particularly in rural and underserved regions, by increasing the number of health centres and upgrading existing facilities.
The Tamil Nadu Forest Department began setting up Vulture Safe Zones (VSZs), the first around the Moyar River Valley in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve, under the Vision Document for Vulture Conservation (VDVC) 2025-2030, to curb the use of banned veterinary NSAIDs like diclofenac.
SCORP, India's first legged mobile manipulator robot, was developed by xTerra Robotics incubated at IIT Kanpur; it combines walking legs with a robotic arm for use in industrial inspection, disaster response, defence and hazardous environments.
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways launched a data-driven Zero-Fatalities Programme in 100 high-risk districts across 15 states, aiming to halve road-accident deaths by 2030 using crash data, critical-location mapping and targeted enforcement.
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