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330 stories for “ITI” · August 2026
Clear filtersThe Supreme Court of India has published 'Judgments and Gender: Sensitivity and Compassion in Writing Judgments', which supersedes its 2023 Handbook on Combating Gender Stereotypes. The document advises replacing the wor...
Tamil Nadu has formed an Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) with an outlay of ₹264 crore to intensify action against drug-related crime. Sixty-five ANTF units will be set up across the State, each with a dedicated police s...
IntroductionWorld Elephant Day is observed every year on 12 August to raise global awareness about the threats facing both Asian and African elephants and to promote conservation efforts. On World Elephant Day 2026, the...
IntroductionOn the occasion of International Youth Day (IYD) on 12 August 2026, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) awarded the Government of Tamil Nadu the prestigious 'UN Population A...
IntroductionIndia scripted space history on 12 August 2026 with the successful launch of Chandrayaan-4, the country's first-ever lunar sample return mission, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota. The...
President Droupadi Murmu conferred the Sant Kabir Handloom Awards and National Handloom Awards 2025 at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre in New Delhi. Of the 22 awards, three were Sant Kabir Handloom Awards, given t...
The Mising, Assam's second-largest plains tribe, drew attention on the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (9 August) for their age-old ways of coping with floods. They live mainly along the Brahmaputra a...
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) forecasts a strong Super El Niño coinciding with a positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) between August and October 2026. El Niño is the abnormal warming of the central and easter...
The Supreme Court lengthened the compulsory third-party motor insurance cover on new vehicles by one year, to four years for cars and six years for two-wheelers. It noted that a "shocking" number of vehicles still run un...
More than 3,000 Group A cadre officers of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) have petitioned the Supreme Court against the CAPF (General Administration) Act, 2026, calling it violative of Articles 14, 16 and 21 and o...
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) is drafting a dedicated Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for polysilicon manufacturing. India has virtually no polysilicon capacity today and relies largely on impo...
The elusive Himalayan serow (Capricornis thar) has been sighted in the Dalhousie Forest Division of Himachal Pradesh, the first record there in close to two decades. The IUCN classifies the species as Near Threatened, ci...
