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The Agriculture Insurance Company of India Limited (AIC) has launched the Krishi Sakhi Initiative to strengthen the role of women farmers.The move is in line with the United Nations declaring 2026 the International Year...
Ordnance Factory Day is observed on 18 March to commemorate the beginning of production at India's first ordnance factory at Cossipore, Kolkata, in 1802.In 2021, the Ordnance Factory Board was reorganised into seven Defe...
India is testing Sheshnaag-150, a long-range attack drone designed to operate in swarms. It has been developed by Newspace Research Technologies, a Bengaluru-based firm. Swarming drones work together in groups to strike...
R.M. Nachammai has become the first woman to head a working nuclear power plant in India. She takes charge as Chief Superintendent of Units 3 and 4 of the Kaiga Generating Station in Karnataka from 15 March 2026. As Chie...
NITI Aayog and UNICEF India have signed a Statement of Intent (SOI) to improve nutrition and health outcomes in Aspirational Districts and Aspirational Blocks. The partnership concentrates on maternal and child nutrition...
Jatinder Mehra, a veteran of India's steel industry, passed away. He had served as Vice Chairman of the Metals and Mining Division of the Essar Group, one of the country's large industrial conglomerates. His long career...
**Overview** On March 1, 2026, a tragic explosion at an explosives manufacturing factory in Maharashtra's Nagpur district resulted in 17 fatalities and 18 injuries, prompting immediate high-level rescue operations and fi...
Overview: On March 1, 2026, a devastating explosion occurred at an explosives manufacturing factory operated by SBL Energy Limited in Raulgaon village of Katol tehsil, Nagpur district, Maharashtra, resulting in the tragi...
**Overview** The National Arogya Fair 2026 was organized by the Ministry of Ayush in collaboration with the All India Ayurvedic Congress from February 25 to 28, 2026, in Shegaon, Maharashtra. Inaugurated by President Dro...
The Ministry of Home Affairs released PRAHAAR, India's first national anti-terrorism policy. It identifies threats across water, land, air and cyberspace, including cross-border terrorism, global outfits such as Al-Qaeda...
Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh saw the inauguration of MILAN's 13th edition, the multilateral naval exercise hosted by the Indian Navy. Held every two years, MILAN gathers navies of friendly nations to build maritime co...
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation launched PAIMANA (Project Assessment, Infrastructure Monitoring and Analytics for Nation-building), a web platform for tracking Central Sector infrastructure projec...
