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The University Grants Commission (UGC) has given a Letter of Intent (LoI) to the University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) to set up a degree-awarding campus in Hyderabad. If established, it will be the first foreign uni...
The Union government has sanctioned five Centres of Excellence for the classical languages Assamese, Bengali, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit. They will support research and help preserve, document and digitise literary herita...
Stanford University mathematician Sarah Peluse has been announced as the winner of the 2026 SASTRA-Ramanujan Award. The prize was instituted in 2005 by SASTRA (Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy). It...
Bengali novelist and short-story writer Saratchandra Chattopadhyay was remembered on his 150th birth anniversary. Born on 15 September 1876 at Debanandapur in Bengal, he wrote Devdas, Srikanta, Parineeta, Choritrohin and...
The Indian Patent Office has granted a patent to DRDO and the University of Hyderabad for BAM-H24, a solid rocket propellant. BAM-H24 is an energetic compound rich in boron, hydrogen and nitrogen, meant for use as solid...
The 100th birth anniversary of Bhupen Hazarika was marked on 8 September. Born on 8 September 1926 at Sadiya in Assam, he was a singer, composer, lyricist, filmmaker and cultural icon. He studied at Banaras Hindu Univers...
IntroductionRenowned modern Indian historian, pioneer of subaltern and Marxist historiography, and former professor of history at Delhi University, Prof. Sumit Sarkar, passed away on 17 August 2026 at the age of 87, leav...
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...
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...
IntroductionIn a deeply structural and highly massive cultural loss for Indian cinema, legendary playback singer S. Janaki, universally revered as the "Nightingale of South India", strictly and officially passed away at...
Osmania University in Hyderabad, Telangana, has become the first university in India to receive four International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certifications at the same time.The certifications were awarded by...
Times Higher Education (THE) has released its Asia University Rankings 2026. The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, is the top-ranked Indian institution, placed 43rd in Asia. India has the largest number of r...
