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Clear filtersAnne Carson, the Canadian writer, has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. The honour recognises her inventive writing, which shapes fresh forms of contemporary literature by engaging in a conversation with c...
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...
The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) is staging SAREX-2026, the 12th edition of the National Maritime Search and Rescue Exercise. This year the drill is being held in the waters off the Paradip coast in Odisha. SAREX is the nati...
Andhra Pradesh is the launch site of India's first national-level pilot for building rural homes with 3D printing under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G). The pilot brings 3D-printing construction into the g...
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...
The WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) Living Planet Report 2026 recorded an average 73% fall in monitored vertebrate population sizes between 1970 and 2022. Its Living Planet Index (LPI), compiled by the Zoological Societ...
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...
Under the ULLAS (Understanding of Lifelong Learning for All in Society) initiative, Uttarakhand has been named India's sixth fully literate state in 2026. A State or Union Territory earns this tag when functional literac...
West Bengal wants to change its name to "Paschim Banga", and a Bill for this is expected in the State Assembly. Under Article 3 of the Constitution, renaming an existing state is Parliament's power, and the Bill may be i...
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 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...
