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12 stories for “Data” · March 2026
Clear filtersWorld Backup Day is observed every year on March 31 to remind people about the importance of protecting their digital data. The day encourages individuals and organisations to keep backup copies of important files, photo...
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has started its first structured bug bounty programme to tighten the security of the Aadhaar ecosystem. Cyber security professionals and ethical hackers are invited to...
The Forest Survey of India (FSI), which functions under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, has not issued any alerts from its Anavaran deforestation system since early 2026. Anavaran is an AI-based p...
The Government of India is relying on the GARBH-INi initiative to predict preterm births early and help prevent them through advanced research and artificial intelligence. GARBH-INi (Interdisciplinary Group for Advanced...
The Government of India has launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that connects Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools with the e-Sankhyiki portal, giving them real-time access to official statistics. MCP is an open...
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has released the first-ever National Highways Green Cover Index (NH-GCI) 2025–26, prepared with ISRO's National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC). The index uses satellite data...
CALM-Brain, India's first digital repository on brain structure and function, has been launched in Bengaluru. Developed by researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) and the Nation...
NASA has confirmed, after fresh observations, that Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the Moon in 2032. Discovered in 2024, the asteroid had earlier been estimated to have a roughly 3.8–4.3% chance of striking the Moon on 22...
India's data centre capacity has grown roughly fourfold, from about 375 MW in 2020 to nearly 1,500 MW in 2025. A data centre is a secured facility that stores, processes and manages large volumes of digital data. India's...
In early 2026, the highly authoritative Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) officially released a deeply comprehensive, heavily data-driven national report issuing a stark, highly stern warning regarding the rapidl...
The Government of India has notified the country's first standards covering cloud computing, data centre performance and Ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI).The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) issued them under the Bur...
Scientists of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics observed shocks driven by a coronal mass ejection (CME) by combining data from the Gauribidanur radio telescope and the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) on Adity...
