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15 stories for “Current” · 9 Oct 2026
Clear filtersWorld Space Week, held from 4 to 10 October, celebrates the contribution of space science and technology to human development and encourages education, innovation and international cooperation. The 2026 theme is 'Rocket...
World Cotton Day is marked every year on 7 October. The day highlights why cotton matters and recognises how the crop supports livelihoods, trade and economic development around the world. For 2026, the observance carrie...
A rare two-headed wolf snake was rescued at Agaswani village in Dhanpur taluka of Gujarat's Dahod district. The condition, called bicephaly, is a developmental abnormality. Wolf snakes belong to the genus Lycodon of the...
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for their discoveries of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. Their research deals with chemical processes y...
Astronomers have found a possible second-generation planet circling the white dwarf HS 0209+0832. It has been nicknamed a "phoenix planet" since it may have taken shape from matter thrown off by its dying parent star. Th...
The WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) Living Planet Report 2026 recorded an average 73% fall in monitored vertebrate population sizes between 1970 and 2022. Its Living Planet Index (LPI), compiled by the Zoological Societ...
India figures among the ten best-performing emerging markets on AI (Artificial Intelligence) readiness, per a World Bank report released in October 2026 under the title "India and Artificial Intelligence: Seizing the Dev...
India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are conducting Mountain Guardian 2026, the third edition of their joint military exercise. The venue for this round is Chaubatia, located in the State of Uttarakhand in India. Mou...
Under the ULLAS (Understanding of Lifelong Learning for All in Society) initiative, Uttarakhand has been named India's sixth fully literate state in 2026. A State or Union Territory earns this tag when functional literac...
West Bengal wants to change its name to "Paschim Banga", and a Bill for this is expected in the State Assembly. Under Article 3 of the Constitution, renaming an existing state is Parliament's power, and the Bill may be i...
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has given a Letter of Intent (LoI) to the University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) to set up a degree-awarding campus in Hyderabad. If established, it will be the first foreign uni...
The Union Cabinet has cleared the Integrated Transport & Logistics Authority (ITLA), to be formed as an SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle) for integrated planning. As the national apex body, ITLA will handle planning, researc...
