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Sculptures and inscriptions from the Early Chola period have been found on the bed of the Cauvery near Musiri. Idols of Dakshinamurthy and Vinadhara Shiva lay about 200 metres from the river bund and probably belonged to...
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...
The International Malaria Conference (IMC) 2026 was held in New Delhi from 7 to 9 March 2026. Its theme was 'Discovery, Development and Delivery: Driving Malaria Elimination and Beyond.' The conference brought together e...
Joha rice, an aromatic indigenous variety grown mainly in Assam, has been exported in large quantities for the first time. A 25-metric-tonne consignment was shipped from Guwahati to the United Kingdom and Italy. The ship...
India is testing Sheshnaag-150, a long-range attack drone designed to operate in swarms. It has been developed by Newspace Research Technologies, a Bengaluru-based firm. Swarming drones work together in groups to strike...
Under Operation Sagar Bandhu, the Indian Army has begun a major bridge project in Sri Lanka. The bridge will link the capital, Colombo, with the economic centre of Puttalam. Its purpose is to restore connectivity so that...
India's data centre capacity has grown roughly fourfold, from about 375 MW in 2020 to nearly 1,500 MW in 2025. A data centre is a secured facility that stores, processes and manages large volumes of digital data. India's...
The Lok Sabha passed the second batch of Supplementary Demands for Grants for 2025–26, in which the Finance Minister proposed an Economic Stabilisation Fund (ESF) with an outlay of ₹1 lakh crore. The fund is meant to hel...
