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47 stories for “rat” · August 2026
Clear filtersBengaluru-based defence startup Flying Wedge Defence & Aerospace (FWDA) has unveiled FWD Supreme Lite, billed as India's first AI-piloted fighter aircraft programme. Designed and developed in India, it is a 250-kg-class...
The National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning (NBSS&LUP), a Nagpur-based ICAR institute, has prepared India's first soil texture map, offering digitised soil classification at hectare level nationwide. Soil te...
India aims to set up its own space station by 2035, and ISRO has approved the first module of the proposed Bharatiya Antariksh Station, called BAS-01. The station is planned as a 52-tonne facility in low-Earth orbit at 4...
At the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) COP17 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, India urged a shift in global drought policy from reacting to crises towards proactive, technology-based resilience. It called for st...
Scientists have classified the exoplanet GJ 523b as a “mega-Earth”, a rocky planet with a radius of at least 2.1 Earth radii and density of at least 5.5 g/cm³. GJ 523b is about 2.55 times Earth’s radius, 23.5 Earth masse...
Researchers have found signs of microbial life at least 3.5 billion years old in a carbon-bearing chert from Bhitardari in the Singhbhum Craton, which spans parts of Jharkhand and Odisha. Four of the eight zircon crystal...
National Space Day on 23 August marks India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission, whose Vikram lander soft-landed in the Moon’s south polar region in 2023. With it India became the fourth country to achieve a lunar soft landing and t...
Researchers at IIT Mandi have developed a bio-inspired coating for 3D-printed bone implants made of polylactic acid (PLA), a biodegradable plastic whose surface does not bond easily with bone. The coating consists of tin...
IN-SPACe approved India's first fully commercial indigenous Earth Observation (EO) satellite constellation under the Public-Private Partnership model. The consortium, Allied Orbits Private Limited, is led by Pixxel Space...
An international team of astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) found an unusual black hole dating to when the universe was about 660 million years old. The object belongs to the class called Little Red...
The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) notified the Cyber Security in Power Sector Regulations, 2026 under the Electricity Act, 2003; they take effect from 1 April 2027. They apply to generators, captive plants and ener...
IntroductionIn a major leap for indigenous precision-strike military technology, India's first fully indigenous jet-powered loitering munition (kamikaze drone), 'Divyastra Mk3', successfully cleared its maiden flight tri...
