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495 stories for “IT” · March 2026
Clear filtersThe Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has busted a nationwide darknet drug-trafficking network called 'Team Kalki'. The group had been running since January 2025, using the darknet and encrypted messaging applications to ca...
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...
India is setting up what is described as the world's first Autonomous Maritime Shipbuilding and Systems Centre in Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh. The facility will develop unmanned surface vessels (USVs) and autonomous...
ISRO has successfully carried out a sea-level hot test of its CE20 cryogenic engine at a thrust level of 22 tonnes. The CE20 powers the C25 cryogenic upper stage of the Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM3), India's heavy-lift ro...
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...
Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026), the influential German philosopher and sociologist, has died aged 96. A leading 20th-century social theorist and a member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, he championed deliberativ...
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...
