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Tea tribes and Adivasi communities in Assam will now get 3% reservation in Class I and II State government posts, including the State civil services and professor positions, after a Cabinet decision. Until now, this quot...
18 February 2026 marked 80 years since the Royal Indian Navy Revolt of 1946, a five-day uprising from 18 to 23 February by Indian naval ratings against British rule. Triggered by poor food, low pay and racial discriminat...
Cricketer Smriti Mandhana won the BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year 2025 award at a ceremony in New Delhi. Chess player Divya Deshmukh was named Emerging Player of the Year for winning the FIDE Women's World Cup, and Pr...
Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh both became States on 20 February 1987. Mizoram, a Union Territory from 1972, gained statehood through the 53rd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1986, after the Mizoram Accord between the Centr...
Kerala became the first State to classify tidal flooding, also called sunny-day or king-tide flooding, as a State-specific disaster, enabling relief from the State Disaster Response Fund. Such flooding occurs when high t...
The President inaugurated the centenary celebrations of the Ol Chiki script in New Delhi. Pandit Raghunath Murmu of Mayurbhanj, Odisha, created the script in 1925 to give the Santhali language its own writing system. It...
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...
Rajya Sabha MP P. Wilson introduced a private member's Constitution (Amendment) Bill, 2026, proposing reservation in appointments to the Supreme Court and High Courts. It seeks representation for SCs, STs, OBCs, religiou...
At the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, the Prime Minister set out the M.A.N.A.V. vision, a five-pillar framework to guide how AI is built and used in India. The acronym stands for Moral and Ethical Systems, Accounta...
Brazil celebrated a historic moment at the 2026 Winter Olympics when Lucas Pinheiro Braathen won the giant slalom event in alpine skiing. His victory earned Brazil its first-ever gold medal at the Winter Olympics, a firs...
Jaisalmer, the desert city in Rajasthan, has been chosen to host India's first Jain Chadar Mahotsav. The festival is scheduled to run for three days, from 6 March to 8 March 2026. As the first event of this kind in the c...
David J. Farber, the American computer scientist often referred to as the 'Grandfather of the Internet', has passed away in Tokyo at the age of 91. Farber made contributions to the early development of computer networkin...
