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The Indian Navy has added two new ships to its fleet. INS Samarthak, described as India's first indigenous multi-purpose vessel, was commissioned at Karwar in Karnataka. Separately, INS Mangrol was commissioned at the Na...
The Indian Navy has taken delivery of two TROUT remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs), built indigenously by EyeROV, a company based in Kerala. TROUT is described as India's first military-grade underwater ROV. It...
The Indian Navy and the United Kingdom's Royal Navy carried out Exercise KONKAN 2026, their annual bilateral maritime exercise, in waters off Plymouth in the United Kingdom. The KONKAN series is held every year between t...
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...
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...
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...
The government has now listed 375 allowed works under the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) [VB-G RAM G] Act, 2025. That is 41% more than the 266 works allowed earlier. The works are groupe...
The Government of India has standardised the names of 28 geographical features in Ladakh on the official Survey of India map. They comprise 11 peaks, 5 mountains, 6 land areas, 2 glaciers, 2 passes, 1 valley, 1 river, 1...
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 Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways has notified four ports as mega ports under the Indian Ports Act, 2025: Deendayal Port (Kandla) and Mundra Port in Gujarat, Jawaharlal Nehru Port (Nhava Sheva) in Maharashtra...
WHO and UNICEF released the report "Progress on Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Schools 2015–2025" under the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for WASH. In 2025, 429 million school-age children worldwide lacked...
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)...
