The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has launched the PRISM-SG portal in New Delhi. PRISM-SG stands for Portal for Rail-Road Inspection and Stages Management – Steel Girders. The digital platform is meant to simplify and speed up the inspection and approval stages involved in bridge construction, particularly for steel girders used in rail-road projects.
Kerala has launched 'MLATrack.com', described as India's first digital platform for tracking how Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) perform in the legislature. The portal is designed to make the legislative work of elected representatives visible to the public in one place.
Indian space-tech company Agnikul Cosmos has successfully test-fired a first-of-its-kind booster engine manufactured through 3D printing. The engine was produced using the company's Akasha300 3D printer. Additive manufacturing of this kind allows complex rocket engine parts to be built as a single piece, and the test marks another step forward in the use of 3D-printing technology by India's private space…
The Government of India has launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that connects Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools with the e-Sankhyiki portal, giving them real-time access to official statistics. MCP is an open-source standard introduced by Anthropic in 2024 that lets AI models link securely to external data sources, which helps improve the accuracy of their responses.
The Indian Navy has launched Operation Urja Suraksha to safeguard energy cargoes bound for India as they pass through the Strait of Hormuz. The operation comes against the backdrop of rising tensions in West Asia, which have raised concerns over the safety of maritime trade routes in the region.
The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has identified a new species of cockroach, named Neoloboptera peninsularis, from Pune in Maharashtra. The discovery was made with the help of DNA-based taxonomy, a method that relies on genetic information to tell species apart and classify them.
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has released the first-ever National Highways Green Cover Index (NH-GCI) 2025–26, prepared with ISRO's National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC). The index uses satellite data to measure the share of green canopy along National Highway stretches. High-resolution multispectral images from Resourcesat-2/2A (LISS-IV) are used, with Cartosat-2S for validation.
NITI Aayog has published a report titled 'Empowering Farmers: Natural Farming Training Toolkit & Best Practices Guide.' Natural farming is a livestock-based system that avoids chemicals and combines crops, trees and animals to enrich biodiversity. Unlike conventional agriculture, it depends on natural ecological processes rather than external chemical inputs.
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