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The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has picked Kumkum Anil Mohod (archery) and Sujeet Kalkal (wrestling) to be the inaugural winners of two new honours for their showing at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games in Japan. Th...
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has carried out the first live jump using its indigenously developed Advanced High-Altitude Parachute (AHAP). The trial took place at Nyoma in Ladakh, a high-altit...
Breast Cancer Awareness Month runs every year through October, from the 1st to the 31st. Its purpose is to increase public understanding of breast cancer and to widen access to early diagnosis and good-quality treatment...
The Ramanujan Prize 2026 has been conferred on Professor Mahesh Kakde, who works at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, honouring his contributions to algebraic number theory. The prize has been presented...
Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) aims to double uranium production by 2036 through new mines and by recovering uranium from copper residues, supporting India's nuclear power capacity of about 9 GW. UCIL meets...
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for their discoveries of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. Their research deals with chemical processes y...
India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are conducting Mountain Guardian 2026, the third edition of their joint military exercise. The venue for this round is Chaubatia, located in the State of Uttarakhand in India. Mou...
The Union Cabinet has cleared the Integrated Transport & Logistics Authority (ITLA), to be formed as an SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle) for integrated planning. As the national apex body, ITLA will handle planning, researc...
eSanjeevani, India's National Telemedicine Service, has now handled more than 50 crore teleconsultations, with usage spread over every State and Union Territory. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare started the serv...
The government has now listed 375 allowed works under the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) [VB-G RAM G] Act, 2025. That is 41% more than the 266 works allowed earlier. The works are groupe...
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel share the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, honouring their work on optogenetics and light-gated ion channels. Hegemann and Nagel found channelrhodopsin, a protei...
Uttar Pradesh has given its approval to a project costing close to ₹37 crore for setting up India's first museum devoted to locks, to be located in Aligarh. The museum will trace how locking devices have evolved over tim...
