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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...
Research groups in Europe and China have announced the first functioning nuclear clocks. Whereas atomic clocks keep time using an atom's electrons, nuclear clocks rely on the atomic nucleus itself. They are built around...
The second edition of Tarang Shakti, the Indian Air Force's multinational air exercise, is under way in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Eight countries are participating with their air assets: Australia, Bangladesh, France, Germany,...
The MG Hector Tomahawk is India's first mainstream Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) SUV. A PHEV pairs a petrol engine and an electric motor with a battery that can be charged externally, so it can run on electric p...
A new study suggests Mercury may have contracted 10-30% more than previously thought as its interior cooled over billions of years. Researchers estimate that the planet's radius may have reduced by about 7.2 miles (11.6...
Researchers have described two frog species new to science from Mizoram: Duttaphrynus phawngpui and Ingerana aizawl. Duttaphrynus phawngpui was recorded at elevations above 2,000 metres in Phawngpui National Park and is...
The G20 Innovation Ministers' Meeting was held on 1-2 September 2026 at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Ministers adopted an Innovation Ministerial Statement spanning six areas, including pro-innovation policy, emergin...
Union Minister Jitendra Singh launched BIO-NIVESH in New Delhi, a platform that connects biotechnology startups with investors. It seeks to draw more private investment into biotech innovations that are ready to scale up...
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...
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...
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...
