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Clear filtersCelebrated on 13 February, National Women's Day pays tribute to Sarojini Naidu, who was born in Hyderabad on that date in 1879. Remembered as the 'Nightingale of India', she was a poet, a freedom fighter and a political...
Ritu Tawde is set to become Mumbai's first Mayor from the Bharatiya Janata Party in 44 years. She will head the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), India's largest and wealthiest civic body. The BMC's record budget...
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...
At just seventeen, Aditya Pandya has become the youngest male analogue astronaut from India. He earned the title by finishing a mission that simulated a lunar habitat at Dholavira, located in Gujarat's Rann of Kutch. Spo...
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...
Anna Chakra, India's digital decision-support system for moving food grains under the Public Distribution System, is a finalist for the 2026 Franz Edelman Award, a global honour in operations research and analytics. Deve...
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of India has chosen Cardinal Poola Anthony, the Archbishop of Hyderabad, as its president. With this election he becomes the first Dalit prelate to lead the conference, which speaks for c...
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...
Sunetra Pawar, wife of the late NCP (AP) leader Ajit Pawar, took oath as Maharashtra's first woman Deputy Chief Minister; Governor Acharya Devvrat administered the oath in the presence of CM Devendra Fadnavis and Deputy...
The Centre announced the Republic Day Parade 2026 results. The Indian Navy was adjudged the best marching contingent among the three Services, and Delhi Police topped the CAPF and auxiliary forces category. Maharashtra's...
D. Gnanasundaram, who served as Deputy Director of the Central Institute of Classical Tamil and contributed scholarly works on the Ramayana, Kamba Ramayanam and Divya Prabandham, passed away. He received the Ilakkiya Mam...
A Bombardier Learjet 45 crash at Baramati, Maharashtra, on 28 January 2026 led to the death of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. First elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Baramati in 1991 (wh...
