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346 stories for “AI” · March 2026
Clear filtersTamil Nadu has brought in a dedicated mental health policy for students in schools and colleges. It focuses on spotting stress, anxiety, depression and other mental health concerns among students at an early stage. The p...
National Vaccination Day is observed in India on March 16 to stress the role of immunisation in safeguarding public health. The date recalls the launch of the Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme on 16 March 1995, when ora...
India's Chandrika Pujari won gold in the women's 51 kg category at the World Boxing Futures Cup 2026 in Bangkok, Thailand, beating Uzbekistan's Mardonova Nazokat in the final. India ended with five medals: one gold, thre...
India finished first at the World Para Athletics Grand Prix 2026 in New Delhi, winning 208 medals: 75 gold, 69 silver and 64 bronze. Russia came second with 35 medals and Bosnia and Herzegovina placed third. Double Paral...
Yashwant Gupta has been honoured with the MP Birla Memorial Award in recognition of his contributions to radio astronomy. Radio astronomy studies celestial objects by detecting the radio waves they emit, and India has a...
Aqua AirX Autonomous Systems has launched Avataar, described as India's first amphibious drone. An amphibious drone can operate both in the air and on water, which allows it to take off from, land on and move across wate...
A faunal survey by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) in Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats, has identified nine species new to science. They include the jumping spider Stenaelurillus megamalai, the mayflies E...
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has allowed the Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology to take up the 11th phase of excavation at Keeladi and its cluster in Sivaganga district, along with seven other sites....
The Union Minister of Civil Aviation has announced that Tuticorin Airport in Tamil Nadu will henceforth be called Thoothukudi Airport in English. The change drops the anglicised name 'Tuticorin' and brings the airport's...
A new study shows that NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) altered the orbit of a whole asteroid system. In September 2022, a spacecraft was deliberately crashed into Dimorphos, a small moonlet circling the as...
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has launched the National Climate Stack Innovation Challenge. The initiative seeks to build a National Climate Stack that brings various climate datasets t...
India and New Zealand plan to deepen sports cooperation as 2026 marks a century of sporting relations between them. The ties date back to 1926, when an Indian Army hockey team toured New Zealand. A high-level meeting in...
