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62 stories for “STEM” · February 2026
Clear filtersNoted educationist S.S. Rajagopalan has died. He was part of the committee that designed Samacheer Kalvi, Tamil Nadu's uniform system of school education. He also served on the technical committee of the All-India Forum...
Snow settled on the interior desert of Saudi Arabia's Al-Jawf region for the first time on record, around November-December 2025, following heavy rain and hail. A cold weather system moving in from the Mediterranean brou...
The 16th Finance Commission recommended grants of ₹9.47 lakh crore over five years, only for local bodies and disaster management, ending revenue deficit, sector-specific and State-specific grants. Local bodies get ₹7,91...
Madhya Pradesh has declared 2026 its 'Year of Agriculture', with the theme 'Prosperous Farmers - Prosperous State'. The State's budget for agriculture and allied activities has grown from ₹600 crore in 2002-03 to more th...
Indian Railways brought 472.3 km of the Kavach Version 4.0 safety system into service in one day, the largest single-day commissioning so far. The stretches lie on the Western, Northern and East Central Railway zones, an...
Overview The Ministry of Commerce and Industry announced a major expansion of the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme (SISFS) in February 2026, with a specific focus on nurturing entrepreneurs in Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities. The...
A January 2026 report by the United Nations University (UNU-INWEH), 'Global Water Bankruptcy: Living Beyond Our Hydrological Means in the Post-Crisis Era', says many water systems can no longer recover to past levels, a...
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), the national nodal agency for cyber incident response under the Ministry of Electronics and IT, dealt with more than 29.44 lakh cyber incidents in 2025. CERT-In was...
Suryastra, a Universal Rocket Launcher System, made its first public appearance at the Republic Day parade. Described as the country's first indigenously developed universal multi-calibre rocket launcher, it is designed...
In a first, the Madras High Court will deploy an AI-assisted system named 'Superlaw Courts' to extract relevant information from case records and speed up hearings and disposal. The tool works only on documents filed in...
Overview Following the presentation of the Union Budget 2026–27, the government introduced several tax reforms aimed at simplifying the tax system, improving compliance, and boosting economic activity. The changes focuse...
According to the Economic Survey 2025-26, Karnataka is home to 39% of India's generative AI startups, the largest share of any State. The number of GenAI startups in India rose to 890 in the first half of 2025, compared...
