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The Malcolm Adiseshiah Award 2026 has been conferred on Raghav Das Gaiha for his contributions to development studies. He is a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and a former Professor of Public Policy at...
Remembering the Bard of Bengal: Rabindranath Tagore’s 165th Birth AnniversaryOn May 7, 2026, India celebrated the 165th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, a polymath who reshaped Indian literature, music, and educ...
UNESCO Chair at SSPU: Paving the Way for Women in STEM In a historic step toward gender parity in technical fields, Symbiosis Skills and Professional University (SSPU), Pune, has launched Asia’s first UNESCO Chair on Gen...
Former Chief Economic Adviser K.V. Subramanian has become the first Indian economist to receive the University of Chicago Alumni Award for Professional Achievement (2026). This is the first time in the award's 85-year hi...
The herSTART 5.0 programme has been launched in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, to support women entrepreneurs. It is implemented by the Gujarat University Startup and Entrepreneurship Council. Under the programme, women-led startup...
Meenambal Sivaraj, born on 12 December 1904 in Rangoon, Burma, was a leading voice for Scheduled Caste rights and women's empowerment. Her father, V.G. Vasudeva Pillai, became the first SC member of the Madras Legislativ...
The Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford has handed back to India a 16th-century bronze idol of Saint Thirumankai Alvar.The idol originally belonged to the Shri Soundararaja Perumal Temple at Thadikombu in Tamil...
**Overview** On March 2, 2026, the Ministry of Education officially launched the online registration portal for Phase VI of 'Yuva Sangam', a flagship national youth exchange program operating under the broader 'Ek Bharat...
Overview The 2026 edition of the Khelo India University Games (KIUG) concluded in February with a spectacular closing ceremony. Featuring thousands of athletes from over 200 universities, the games successfully identifie...
India sent the Devnimori Buddha relics to Sri Lanka for public veneration at Colombo's Gangaramaya Temple from 4 to 10 February 2026. Kept at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in Vadodara, the relics were excav...
An annual report by Square Circle Clinic of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, found the Supreme Court has upheld no death sentence in three years and acquitted 10 death-row prisoners in 2025, the most in a decade. Ses...
The QS Europe Rankings 2026 placed the University of Oxford first, up from third in 2025. ETH Zurich came second and remains the top-ranked university in continental Europe. Imperial College London and University College...
