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India reiterated its commitment to science-based conservation of cetaceans at the 70th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC-70) in Hobart, Australia. The IWC was set up under the International Convention...
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...
India's 51st Doppler Weather Radar (DWR) was inaugurated at Sambalpur in Odisha. A DWR uses radio waves to track where rainfall and severe weather are, how they move and how intense they are. With this, Odisha now has th...
A healthy female calf of the Badri breed was successfully born in Uttarakhand using Ovum Pick-Up and In Vitro Fertilization (OPU-IVF) technology. Badri cattle are an indigenous breed adapted to the mountainous terrain of...
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...
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...
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...
IntroductionFollowing more than 15 years of rigorous taxonomic and genetic research, an international team of herpetologists announced on 15 August 2026 the discovery of three brand-new species of cascade frogs belonging...
IntroductionShowcasing sustainable urban water management and ecological design, a massive 72,600 sq. yard man-made lake named 'Blue Heart' has been developed at 'By the Waters', a 100-acre master-planned residential com...
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...
IntroductionIndia scripted space history on 12 August 2026 with the successful launch of Chandrayaan-4, the country's first-ever lunar sample return mission, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota. The...
IntroductionTelangana Police launched the NextGen Dial-112 Emergency Response Support System (TG-ERSS) at the Telangana Integrated Command and Control Centre (TGiCCC) in Hyderabad in August 2026. The upgraded platform in...
