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214 stories for “rat” · February 2026
Clear filtersGross Non-Performing Assets of India's scheduled commercial banks dropped to a record low of 2.15% in September 2025. NPAs are loans on which repayment is overdue by more than 90 days. Public sector banks reported 2.50%,...
At just seventeen, Aditya Pandya has become the youngest male analogue astronaut from India. He earned the title by finishing a mission that simulated a lunar habitat at Dholavira, located in Gujarat's Rann of Kutch. Spo...
In 2025 India ranked second outside the United States for LEED-certified building space with 16 million gross square metres, behind China's 26 million GSM. The US leads overall with more than 50 million GSM. India record...
ISRO's Space Applications Centre has picked a safe landing zone near Mons Mouton for the Chandrayaan-4 mission. Mons Mouton is a large flat-topped lunar mountain roughly 160 km from the Moon's south pole, near the rim of...
Azista Space demonstrated India's first in-orbit imaging, or 'space snooping', capability by photographing the International Space Station with an indigenous satellite. The images were captured by the ABA First Runner (A...
India marked half a century of the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976, which outlawed bonded labour, wiped out bonded debts and required release of bonded labourers. District Magistrates and Vigilance Committees...
Overview In February 2026, National Productivity Day was observed with a special focus on 'Artificial Intelligence: The Catalyst for MSME Growth.' The National Productivity Council (NPC) organized a nationwide campaign t...
Overview: The Tamil Nadu State Budget for 2026-27 was presented in the Legislative Assembly, prioritizing the 'One Trillion Dollar Economy' roadmap. Significant funds were allocated for digital transformation in the MSME...
The James Webb Space Telescope identified MoM-z14, the most distant galaxy yet known, seen as it was about 280 million years after the Big Bang; its light travelled over 13.5 billion years. High nitrogen levels suggest e...
Anna Chakra, India's digital decision-support system for moving food grains under the Public Distribution System, is a finalist for the 2026 Franz Edelman Award, a global honour in operations research and analytics. Deve...
Researchers at IIT Guwahati have devised a method to forecast glacial hazards in the Eastern Himalayas, identifying 492 locations where glacial lakes could form in the future. Such lakes can trigger Glacial Lake Outburst...
Growing freshwater inflow is upsetting the ecology of Lonar Lake in Buldhana district, Maharashtra, India's only meteor impact crater lake in basalt rock, formed about 50,000 years ago when a meteorite struck the Deccan...
