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On 11 October 2026, NASA's Perseverance rover became the record holder for the longest distance driven on another world, covering 45.22 km (28.10 miles) on Mars and edging past the 45.16 km logged by NASA's Opportunity r...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has granted prequalification to CERVAVAC, the first quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine made in India to earn this status. A quadrivalent vaccine protects against four type...
The third International Bharat 6G Symposium 2026 ended at Dwarka, New Delhi. Hosted by the Bharat 6G Alliance (B6GA) on the sidelines of India Mobile Congress 2026, it deliberated on the path to International Mobile Tele...
In the Skytrax World Airline Awards 2026, Singapore Airlines was rated the best airline in the world, with Qatar Airways in second place and Cathay Pacific third. Singapore Airlines also picked up the awards for Best Fir...
The 2026 Ig Nobel Prizes for unusual scientific research were presented in Zurich, Switzerland. Started in 1991 by Marc Abrahams as a humorous counterpart to the Nobel Prizes, the awards this year gave the Chemistry Priz...
India's first dual-fuel Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) train has been flagged off from Sabarmati Railway Station in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. A dual-fuel locomotive can run on a combination of LNG and conventional diesel, helping...
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi have developed India's first functional indigenous micro-GPU. A Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is a processor designed to handle images and graphics, and buil...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated SEMICON India 2026 in New Delhi, the country's fifth major semiconductor conference, and noted India's move towards commercial chip production. The event aimed to strengthen the s...
On September 9, 2026, India endorsed the Call to Action for 6G Leadership and Security, joining 24 like-minded countries in promoting open, interoperable, secure and resilient 6G networks. The initiative was announced on...
A new study has shown that the songs of more than 3,000 passerine bird species are composed from just eight basic sound motifs. Using machine learning on over one lakh recordings, researchers identified three types of tr...
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...
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...
