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34 stories for “IT” · January 2026
Clear filtersIndian startup Akashlabdhi, incubated at IISc Bengaluru, is preparing to launch India's first inflatable space habitat, AntarikshHAB, which expands usable space from 70 to 300 cubic metres. Having reached Technology Read...
The World Economic Forum will open five new Centres for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, one of them in Andhra Pradesh. India already has two, in Mumbai and Telangana. The centres work on AI, energy transition, cyber re...
Scientists at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, built Disobind, a deep-learning tool that predicts how intrinsically disordered proteins attach to partner molecules. These proteins have no fixed 3D...
A consortium led by Pixxel, with Piersight Space, SatSure and Dhruva Space, will build India's first privately owned Earth-observation satellite constellation with IN-SPACe under a public-private partnership. It plans 12...
The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister announced a new spaceport at Hope Island, located off the coast of Kakinada in the Bay of Bengal near the Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary. Part of the Space City initiative, it will mainly su...
India's oceanographic research vessel INS Sagardhwani was flagged off from Kochi for Sagar Maitri-5 (Marine & Allied Interdisciplinary Training and Research Initiative), involving eight Indian Ocean Rim countries to stre...
Overview In January 2026, India strengthened its education and skill development ecosystem with a focus on improving learning outcomes, digital access, and employability. The government continued implementing reforms und...
India reported its first scientifically confirmed case of pufferfish poisoning in Veraval, Gujarat; freshwater pufferfish Tetraodon cutcutia contain tetrodotoxin, a potent neurotoxin, and India lacks a freshwater fish-to...
Odisha will become the first Indian state to launch a comprehensive CKD registry by 31 March 2026, with software developed by the National Informatics Centre, to generate reliable prevalence data for evidence-based polic...
MeitY's Digital India BHASHINI Division, with Wadhwani AI, held the BHASHINI Samudaye workshop in New Delhi to strengthen India's Language AI ecosystem under the National Language Translation Mission, launching the Datas...
SCORP, India's first legged mobile manipulator robot, was developed by xTerra Robotics incubated at IIT Kanpur; it combines walking legs with a robotic arm for use in industrial inspection, disaster response, defence and...
In January 2026, India accelerated its renewable energy expansion as part of its long-term climate and sustainability goals. The government focused on increasing solar and wind energy capacity to reduce dependence on fos...
