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81 stories for “STEM” · March 2026
Clear filtersIndia’s Orange Economy: Pioneering the Creative FutureThe Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) has launched three landmark initiatives in March 2026 to strengthen India’s Orange Economy (Creative Economy). Thes...
The Election Commission of India has permitted postal ballot voting in the Assembly elections for senior citizens, persons with disabilities (PwDs), service voters and essential service workers.The facility is provided u...
Researchers have documented a rare instance of gynandromorphy – an animal showing both male and female characteristics – in a freshwater crab in Silent Valley National Park, Kerala.The crab belongs to the species Vela ca...
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has published the 'Safe Disposal of Unused Medicines' report, warning of the environmental and health risks of improper disposal. Using a One Health approach that links hum...
The Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) has released a report titled 'Reducing Methane Emissions from Landfills: The potential of biocover systems'. Biocovers are microbial layers in which naturally occurring bacteria...
A new plant species, Osbeckia zubeengargiana, has been discovered in the grasslands of Manas National Park in Assam. It belongs to the Melastomataceae family and has been named after Zubeen Garg. Separately, Myiophanes k...
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...
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...
The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has approved lifetime validity for licences issued by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). Food businesses will no longer have to renew licences again...
Indian Railways has commissioned Kavach 4.0 over 1,452 route km on its busy Delhi–Mumbai and Delhi–Howrah high-density corridors. Kavach is an Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system developed in India. It helps avoid tr...
