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The Indian Air Force (IAF) launched its first Dronathon-2026 at the Pokhran Field Firing Range in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. The event tests drone capabilities in surveillance, reconnaissance, autonomous operations, swarm tec...
The Indian Army has established AASHVAST at the DG EME headquarters in New Delhi to identify software threats and security weaknesses in military drones. AASHVAST stands for Assessment and Analysis of Electronic Systems...
Kerala has launched the Elder-Friendly Office Certification (EFOC) scheme to judge whether public offices and institutions are accessible and convenient for senior citizens. It is India's first government certification o...
Four Indian cultural heritage sites have been placed on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List, raising India's total to 73. They are the Rangpur-Sivasagar Historic Ensemble in Assam, the Colonial Penal Settlement in t...
Vinaya Prakash Singh, a senior Indian Postal Service (IPoS) officer, has been re-elected without opposition as Secretary-General of the Asian-Pacific Postal Union (APPU) for a second four-year term covering 2027-2030. Th...
The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) carried out a site assessment for Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands from September 4 to 8, 2026, covering all three districts: North & Middle Andama...
Dinesh Sharma, a BJP Rajya Sabha MP and former Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, has been appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He is also a Vice-Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha, with his...
Samtel HAL Display Systems Limited (SHDS), a joint venture of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and Samtel Avionics, has opened a new defence avionics manufacturing facility in Gurugram, Haryana. SHDS is India's first...
India has put in place its first uniform national standards for mortuaries and post-mortem facilities. They were issued under the Clinical Establishments Act through the National Council for Clinical Establishments, whic...
Indian Railways intends to four-lane roughly 11,000 km of its High-Density Network (HDN) to raise capacity and ease congestion. Its seven high-density routes, Delhi–Howrah, Howrah–Chennai, Chennai–Mumbai, Mumbai–Delhi, D...
India and Japan signed a Memorandum of Arrangement (MoA) on Maritime Security Cooperation on 20 August 2026. It covers Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA), information sharing, Search and Rescue (SAR), Humanitarian Assistanc...
Disability rights groups have objected that the Census 2027 questionnaire proposes just 9 broad disability categories rather than separately recording all 21 disabilities recognised by the Rights of Persons with Disabili...
