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Indian-origin climate scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan has been awarded the Crafoord Prize 2026 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his climate science research. The prize, often called the 'Nobel of geoscience...
A rare red aurora appeared over Hanle in Ladakh after an X-class solar flare, the most powerful category, launched a coronal mass ejection that hit Earth's magnetosphere and caused a severe G4-level geomagnetic storm. Th...
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...
Public health expert Dr. Chandrakant Lahariya received the Wiley Research Heroes Prize 2025 in the 'Impact Beyond Academia' category, becoming the first Indian to win it. The prize honours researchers whose work shapes p...
India sent the Devnimori Buddha relics to Sri Lanka for public veneration at Colombo's Gangaramaya Temple from 4 to 10 February 2026. Kept at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in Vadodara, the relics were excav...
Haryana shuttler Devika Sihag won her maiden BWF Super 300 crown at the Thailand Masters 2026. In defence, the Indian Air Force has fully digitised its Pechora surface-to-air missile system, inducted in the 1970s, to boo...
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of India has chosen Cardinal Poola Anthony, the Archbishop of Hyderabad, as its president. With this election he becomes the first Dalit prelate to lead the conference, which speaks for c...
The Assam government launched the Mukhya Mantrir Eti Koli Duti Paat Scheme in Tinsukia district, providing a one-time grant of Rs 5,000 to more than six lakh tea garden workers. It covers workers in 836 tea gardens acros...
The World Bank held up Karnataka's 2014 fiscal reform as an example for other States. Karnataka began counting the borrowings of its Public Sector Undertakings and Special Purpose Vehicles as State liabilities, which imp...
