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The Mising, Assam's second-largest plains tribe, drew attention on the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (9 August) for their age-old ways of coping with floods. They live mainly along the Brahmaputra a...
A centuries-old Veeragallu (hero stone) carrying a Kannada inscription has been found at the Lakshmi Narayana Swamy Temple in Neeragunda village, Hassan district, Karnataka. It records that a soldier named Boppa died sho...
The Supreme Court held that the criminal offence of domestic cruelty extends to live-in relationships between consenting adults that qualify as "relationships in the nature of marriage". The question before it was whethe...
The Supreme Court lengthened the compulsory third-party motor insurance cover on new vehicles by one year, to four years for cars and six years for two-wheelers. It noted that a "shocking" number of vehicles still run un...
More than 3,000 Group A cadre officers of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) have petitioned the Supreme Court against the CAPF (General Administration) Act, 2026, calling it violative of Articles 14, 16 and 21 and o...
India carried out a successful test of the nuclear-capable Agni-4 Medium-Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM) from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, Odisha. The launch was conducted under the Strategic Forces Comma...
IntroductionThe Lok Sabha passed the Kerala (Alteration of Name) Bill, 2026 on 11 August 2026, officially renaming the state of 'Kerala' to 'Keralam' in the First Schedule of the Constitution of India. The change restore...
Karthikeyan Lanka, Associate Professor at IIT Bombay, has been chosen for the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) Young Scientist Award 2026. The award will be handed over at the 96th NASI Annual Session, schedule...
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Food Price Index rose to 131.1 points in July 2026, its highest level since January 2023. Cereal prices went up 3.4%, led by a 5.8% jump in wheat because of heat damage and wor...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recognised the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) as a South-East Asia Regional Centre of Excellence in Pharmacovigilance and also as a Technical Centre for Quality of Medicines...
IntroductionIndia celebrated National Sports Day on 29 August 2026, commemorating the birth anniversary of hockey wizard Major Dhyan Chand. However, the official awards ceremony for the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award...
The Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways conferred the Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak on 12 rat-hole miners in New Delhi for their bravery in saving lives.It is the highest category of the Jeevan Raksha Padak, a...
