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Senior eye surgeons Dr. Haripriya Aravind and Dr. R. Venkatesh of Puducherry have been chosen for the Chang-Crandall Humanitarian Award 2026 in recognition of their work in reducing blindness caused by cataract. The awar...
Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index 2025 places India 91st with a score of 39 on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). Denmark tops with 89, followed by Finland and Singapore; South Sud...
The nationwide Mission for Aatmanirbharta (Self-Reliance) in Pulses was launched from Amlaha in Sehore district, Madhya Pradesh. Announced in the Union Budget 2025-26, it runs from 2025-26 to 2030-31 with an outlay of Rs...
Indian-origin climate scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan has been awarded the Crafoord Prize 2026 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his climate science research. The prize, often called the 'Nobel of geoscience...
Throughout the early months of 2026, the Tamil Nadu School Education Department's highly dedicated, specialized reading initiative, widely known as 'Vasippu Iyakkam' (The Reading Movement), recorded truly phenomenal, unp...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee appeared before the Supreme Court in a case on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls conducted by the Election Commission of India. She sought leave to argue i...
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...
Andhra Pradesh signed an MoU with FICCI-FLO to build an industrial park only for women-led industries, startups and MSMEs, on 30 acres of land. FICCI-FLO will offer mentoring, training and business support to the units....
An early 8th-century CE inscription in Telugu has been found at Pitikayagulla in Andhra Pradesh. Written in early Telugu script, it shows the language emerging from Prakrit influence into an independent tongue. The recor...
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...
Sir Mark Tully, the former BBC journalist who headed its India bureau for 22 years, died in New Delhi. He reported on major events including the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, the Emergency of 1975 and Operation Blue St...
Madhya Pradesh has declared 2026 its 'Year of Agriculture', with the theme 'Prosperous Farmers - Prosperous State'. The State's budget for agriculture and allied activities has grown from ₹600 crore in 2002-03 to more th...
