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25 stories for “Current Affairs” · January 2026
Clear filtersIndia is reaching half of its installed power capacity from non-fossil sources five years ahead of its 2030 climate (NDC) target. As of 30 June 2025, India had 484.82 GW of installed capacity, of which 242.8 GW was non-f...
The Gandak River in Bihar became India's second-largest gharial habitat after the Chambal. Adult gharials rose from 54 (2015) to over 400 (2025), with the total population crossing 1,000; about 944 were released into a 3...
The Environment Ministry set greenhouse-gas emission-intensity targets for 208 more high-emitting units, through the GEI Target (Amendment) Rules, 2025. This brings petroleum refineries, petrochemicals, textiles and seco...
Security forces carried out Operation Megaburu, a large anti-Maoist operation against CPI (Maoist) cadres in the Saranda forest of West Singhbhum district, Jharkhand. Saranda's dense sal forest has long been a Maoist str...
The government released the Atlas of Climate Adaptation in Indian Agriculture (ACASA-India). ICAR's research and extension network prepared it with the Borlaug Institute for South Asia (part of CIMMYT). It gives location...
The Environment Ministry launched India's second nationwide dolphin count from Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, under Project Dolphin. The Wildlife Institute of India leads it with state forest departments, WWF-India, Aaranyak and...
Mumbai will hold Mumbai Climate Week from 17 to 19 February 2026, described as India's first climate initiative led by a city. It focuses on solutions driven by citizens, especially children and young people, and links c...
Scientists discovered a new ginger species named Parakaempferia alba of the Zingiberaceae family in the Siang Valley of Arunachal Pradesh.
The MoEFCC declared Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary in Rajasthan's Aravalli range an Eco-Sensitive Zone covering 0-1 km around the sanctuary to control unplanned development, mining and industrial expansion.
India's coal-fired power generation declined year-on-year in 2025 (down nearly 3%) for the first time in about 50 years - only the second full-year decline in half a century after 2020 - driven by record clean-energy gro...
Brandt's hedgehog (Paraechinus hypomelas) was recorded in India for the first time, in the Rajouri-Poonch region of Jammu and Kashmir, confirmed via DNA and morphometric analysis; the species was previously known from Af...
India's first and the world's largest green ammonia project under development at Kakinada (a planned Green Hydrogen Valley) will produce 1.5 million tonnes of green ammonia per year from June 2027, with an investment of...
