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38 stories for “Early” · February 2026
Clear filtersHaving met the original 3 crore target early, the Centre has doubled the Lakhpati Didi goal to 6 crore women by March 2029. The scheme helps Self-Help Group members earn at least ₹1 lakh a year from livelihood activities...
Fresh findings from Bhirrana suggest that the Indus Valley Civilisation may be nearly 8,000 years old. Radiocarbon dating of pottery and animal remains recovered there points to settlements and farming communities emergi...
The Union Cabinet cleared the Startup India Fund of Funds 2.0 with a ₹10,000 crore corpus to channel long-term domestic capital into startups and venture funds. It succeeds the 2016 Fund of Funds for Startups, under whic...
Global Energy Monitor reported that the worldwide pipeline of wind and utility-scale solar projects reached a record 4.9 terawatts in 2025, up 11% from 4.4 TW in 2024. China leads with over 1.5 TW prospective and 448 GW...
Two new telescopes in Ladakh, along with an upgrade to one already operating there, received approval in the Union Budget 2026. The National Large Solar Telescope is planned at Merak, close to Pangong Tso, and will be us...
Nearly 30 Tamil Brahmi inscriptions dated to the 1st-3rd centuries CE have been identified in six tombs of the Theban Necropolis in Egypt's Valley of the Kings during studies in 2024 and 2025. Alongside Prakrit and Sansk...
The Indian Council of Medical Research is working on a home-grown vaccine against Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD), a tick-borne viral haemorrhagic fever caused by the KFD flavivirus that spreads through tick bites or conta...
The International Energy Agency's Electricity 2026 report projects worldwide power demand to rise by 3.6% annually through 2030, driven by electric vehicles, data centres and air conditioning. Low-emission sources such a...
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...
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...
The highly esteemed Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology is currently conducting vastly extensive, scientifically rigorous archaeological excavations across eight major historical sites throughout the ongoing 2025-...
Throughout the early months of 2026, the Tamil Nadu School Education Department's highly dedicated, specialized reading initiative, widely known as 'Vasippu Iyakkam' (The Reading Movement), recorded truly phenomenal, unp...
