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The ICAR–National Soybean Research Institute (NSRI), Indore, Madhya Pradesh, has presented two improved soybean (Glycine max) varieties, NRC 268 and NRC 270, which gave early yields of about 20 quintals per hectare. Both...
UN Women has set up the Digital, Innovation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Hub to put gender equality at the heart of digital transformation. It will bring together governments, tech firms, researchers, AI experts and...
India's installed data-centre capacity stood at 1.57 GW as of August 2026, up from about 375 MW in 2020, driven by cloud computing, AI and digital services, and is projected to approach 8 GW by 2030. Around USD 70 billio...
Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh highlighted India's standing as the world's largest vaccine producer and supplier by volume. India makes nearly 60% of global vaccines and meets over 65% of the WHO's routine immunisatio...
The New Delhi Declaration of the 18th BRICS Summit seeks cooperation in Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) and Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN). Members will share best practices and promote mutual recogni...
Bhutan has become the first country in the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Region to eliminate dog-transmitted rabies as a public health problem. Rabies is a viral infection of the central nervous system...
Researchers from JNCASR, the University of Sydney and IISc have created a crystal that delivers nearly 1,000 times the thermoelectric voltage of the textbook limit. They used magnesium-doped scandium nitride (ScN) thin f...
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...
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...
IntroductionTo significantly enhance extreme weather forecasting and disaster mitigation in the ecologically fragile Western Ghats, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) announced on 13 August 2026 that it will commi...
IntroductionDr. Srinivasa Kumar Tummala, a noted oceanographer and scientist, assumed charge as Secretary of the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India, on 11 August 2026. He succeeds M. Ravichandran. Dr....
IntroductionIn a deeply structural and highly massive global health emergency, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) strictly and officially reported that fierce massive global HIV funding crashed by US...
