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To fight hidden hunger, India has developed Kufri Jamunia, a biofortified, purple-coloured potato variety. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research–Central Potato Research Institute (ICAR-CPRI) bred it and released it...
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...
Researchers at IISER (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research), Thiruvananthapuram, have synthesised a compound named magnesium hydridomethylzincate, made up of magnesium, zinc, hydrogen and carbon, which rele...
The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet has cleared a proposal to give a new name to the Noida International Airport being developed at Jewar. Under the proposal, the airport will be called Narendra Modi International Airport. Located...
Qdenga, India's first approved dengue vaccine, received approval from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) in July 2026. It has been cleared for people aged 4 to 60 years. The vaccine is expected to re...
The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has advised States and Union Territories to regulate stem cell therapy. It may be offered as standard care only for Ministry-approved diseases, such as certain blood cancer...
World Duchenne Awareness Day, observed on September 7, spreads awareness about Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare, progressive genetic disorder and one of the most common rare genetic diseases in children. It resu...
Bodhan AI, a startup incubated at IIT Madras, has launched four open-weight artificial intelligence models for Indian languages in partnership with AI4Bharat. The models handle speech recognition, speech generation, mach...
The Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) released 14 home-grown quantum products at its 43rd Foundation Day in New Delhi on 31 August 2026. They span Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC...
Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan released India's first non-GMO (non-Genetically Modified Organism) hybrid seed of high-expansion popcorn maize. The launch took place at Musunuru in Eluru district, Andhra Pradesh. The...
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...
Indian scientists from the Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (IASST) and IIT-Guwahati have created RK-251, a “smart” anticancer drug meant to switch on mainly inside cancer cells, which could reduce h...
