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The fifth edition of AUSTRAHIND, the joint military exercise conducted between India and Australia, got under way in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The exercise series is a regular bilateral defence engagement that brings t...
South Africa is the host of IBSAMAR Exercise 2026, the ninth edition of the maritime exercise conducted among India, Brazil and South Africa. The name IBSAMAR combines IBSA, the trilateral grouping of these three countri...
The Indian Army has introduced 'Bharat Rice' for its defence personnel and entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Food Corporation of India (FCI) to bolster military logistics. Under the arrangement, t...
From 8 October 2026, the Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Act, 2026 is in force after the Ministry of Home Affairs notified it, though its constitutional validity is being contested in the Supreme Cou...
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel share the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, honouring their work on optogenetics and light-gated ion channels. Hegemann and Nagel found channelrhodopsin, a protei...
Marking the 17th Aadhaar Day, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) unveiled five initiatives on digital identity at Aadhaar Samvaad, held on 29 September 2026 in Kolkata. Face Authentication for the Elect...
PRAGATI-50 was launched on 29 September 2026 in New Delhi to develop 50 model cities across 24 states under Swachh Bharat Mission–Urban 2.0. It seeks better urban cleanliness, solid waste management, used water managemen...
The latest National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) ranking places IIT Madras first, followed by the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) and Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI)...
The Supreme Court has referred the challenge to the law on appointing the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and Election Commissioners (ECs) to a larger Constitution Bench. The Chief Election Commissioner and Other Elect...
The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute's 2026 report states that India's Electoral Democracy Index has fallen to its lowest since 1975. V-Dem assesses democracy using indicators on elections, institutions, rights a...
National Engineers' Day is celebrated on September 15, the birth anniversary of M. Visvesvaraya, who was born in 1861 at Muddenahalli in Karnataka. He was the Diwan of Mysore from 1912 to 1918 and worked on major infrast...
National Fluorosis Day is observed on September 9 to focus attention on preventing and controlling fluorosis. The condition results from long-term excessive fluoride intake, mainly through contaminated drinking water, an...
