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Clear filtersThe Sahitya Akademi has announced its awards for outstanding literary works in 24 Indian languages, covering poetry, novels, short stories, essays, memoirs and criticism. In Tamil, Sa. Tamilselvan won for Thamiz Sirukath...
Tamil Nadu has adopted a single-use haemodialysis policy to make dialysis safer for patients in government hospitals. Under it, dialysers will no longer be reused for patients treated in public health facilities. Single-...
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...
The Prime Minister has inaugurated the Lower Kopili Hydroelectric Project in Assam. It is a 120-megawatt run-of-river hydropower project located across the West Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao districts. Run-of-river scheme...
The 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
