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214 stories for “rat” · February 2026
Clear filtersUsing data from the Juno spacecraft, which has orbited Jupiter since 2016, NASA refined the planet's dimensions. Its equatorial diameter is now put at 142,976 km (88,841 miles), about 5 miles less than earlier, and its p...
To monitor the quality of National Highway projects, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has rolled out Mobile Quality Control Vans. They are being tried out first in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Karnataka and Odi...
The 16th edition of Vajra Prahar, a joint special forces exercise between the Indian Army and the US Army, is being held at Bakloh in Himachal Pradesh from 23 February to 15 March 2026. The exercise aims to improve inter...
According to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), India was the second-biggest purchaser of Russian fossil fuels in January 2026, after China. India bought €2.2 billion (US$2.59 billion) of Russian ene...
Tamil Nadu constituted a 16-member State-level Steering Committee to prepare a Human Resources for Health strategy under the World Bank-backed Enhanced Health Service Delivery Program (EHSDP). It is chaired by the Additi...
In Nagercoil, the Chief Minister unveiled a statue of Ponnappa Nadar, a freedom fighter and Congress leader. The memorial recognises the part he played, together with Marshall Nesamani, in the movement that resulted in K...
On 1 February 2026 the Sun released an X8.3 flare, the most powerful so far this year. Solar flares are abrupt energy bursts caused by shifts in the Sun's magnetic field and are graded A, B, C, M and X, X being strongest...
The Union Health Minister launched the Secure AI for Health Initiative (SAHI) and the Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI (BODH) at the India AI Impact Summit 2026. SAHI is a national governance framework for r...
The Prime Minister announced that the statue of Edwin Lutyens, the British architect of Rashtrapati Bhavan, will be replaced by one of C. Rajagopalachari. Rajaji, born on 10 December 1878 in Salem, was the first and last...
Poland exited the Ottawa Convention, the 1997 treaty that prohibits the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of anti-personnel mines. Poland had ratified it in 2012 and destroyed its stockpile in 2016, but cited sec...
Jharkhand's Palamu Tiger Reserve launched 'Vanjeevi Didi' on 17 February 2026 in the Garu range to involve communities in wildlife protection. Educated women from 17 villages, 18 from each, will serve as forest ambassado...
The Indian Navy launched 'Krishna', its first Cadet Training Ship designed and built in India, at the L&T Shipyard in Kattupalli near Chennai. The vessel will be used to train officer cadets at sea. Its construction in T...
