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12 stories for “INS” · January 2026
Clear filtersTamil Nadu opposed the UGC circular introducing a third language in higher education institutions, calling it against its two-language (Tamil and English) policy followed since 1968, and rejected the three-language formu...
The Tamil Nadu Forest Department began its first-ever study on the Madras Hedgehog (Paraechinus nudiventris), locally called Mulleli, a rare nocturnal mammal endemic to southern India, in the Theri forests of Thoothukudi...
For Republic Day 2026, 131 Padma awards were announced: 5 Padma Vibhushan, 13 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri. They include 19 women, 6 foreigners or overseas Indians and 16 posthumous honours. N. Rajam and the late Dha...
As of January 2026, the Tamil Nadu Climate Change Mission (TNCCM), meticulously executed under the specialized aegis of the Tamil Nadu Green Climate Company (TNGCC), has rapidly accelerated its aggressive environmental a...
A Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (DST) study reconstructed a 4,500-year climate record from Kondagai inland lake in Sivaganga district, identifying the 4.2 ka arid event and 3.2 ka dry phase to support water ma...
Tamil Nadu signed an MoU with Sarvam AI to build India's first Sovereign AI Park, a ₹10,000 crore project. It will be a complete AI hub with computing infrastructure, secure data systems, research labs and innovation clu...
The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu released the Tamil Nadu Warehousing Policy 2026 in Chennai to promote modern warehousing infrastructure and strengthen supply chains and logistics. It gives five years of incentives to op...
iTNT Hub signed a Letter of Intent with Germany-based XeedQ GmbH at UmagineTN 2026 to start quantum-computing programmes in Tamil Nadu. In phase one, students and startups get remote access to a 4-qubit quantum computer...
Tamil Nadu released the State Indicator Framework (SIF) 2.0 to track SDG progress to 2030, reducing indicators from 314 to 244 across 17 SDGs, monitored by 28 State departments. The State's multidimensional poverty rate...
A first-of-its-kind initiative began satellite-tagging Olive Ridley sea turtles on Chennai beaches. Two nesting turtles were satellite-tagged and released. The 2025-2027 project by the Wildlife Institute of India and the...
The Tamil Nadu Forest Department announced the first phase of the All-India Tiger Estimation (AITE) 2026, part of the world's largest wildlife monitoring exercise conducted every four years by the National Tiger Conserva...
Tamil Nadu's 2025 northeast monsoon (October-December) brought about 43 cm of rain against a normal of roughly 44 cm. That is slightly below normal and ends a six-year run of normal or surplus rainfall since 2019. Chenna...
