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477 stories for “TNPSC” · August 2026
Clear filtersThe Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) plans to restore the 230-year-old Exchange Building inside Fort St. George, Chennai, and renovate the colonial-era museum it houses. Completed in 1795, the building first housed t...
Excavations by the Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology (TNSDA) at Malayadipatti village in Tenkasi district have yielded a 5th-century Sangam-period hero stone inscription. It lay inside a stepped brick well used...
Tamil Nadu is upgrading its hydropower projects and adding battery storage to handle growing power demand and improve grid reliability. Tamil Nadu Green Energy Corporation Limited (TNGECL), which runs 47 hydropower stati...
Scientists have named S301 the fastest-moving star on a confirmed orbit in the Milky Way. It reaches a top speed of about 25,000 km/s, nearly 8% of the speed of light, while following a highly elliptical 8.7-year orbit a...
Scientists have classified the exoplanet GJ 523b as a “mega-Earth”, a rocky planet with a radius of at least 2.1 Earth radii and density of at least 5.5 g/cm³. GJ 523b is about 2.55 times Earth’s radius, 23.5 Earth masse...
Researchers have found signs of microbial life at least 3.5 billion years old in a carbon-bearing chert from Bhitardari in the Singhbhum Craton, which spans parts of Jharkhand and Odisha. Four of the eight zircon crystal...
National Space Day on 23 August marks India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission, whose Vikram lander soft-landed in the Moon’s south polar region in 2023. With it India became the fourth country to achieve a lunar soft landing and t...
In Juba, South Sudan, 210 Indian peacekeepers were awarded the United Nations (UN) Medal. They included six women and seven staff officers serving with the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). India is the second-largest...
India and Japan signed a Memorandum of Arrangement (MoA) on Maritime Security Cooperation on 20 August 2026. It covers Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA), information sharing, Search and Rescue (SAR), Humanitarian Assistanc...
In State of Uttar Pradesh vs Jai Bir Singh, a nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Surya Kant ruled 5:4 on the meaning of “industry” in labour law. It held that the wide reading in Bang...
Madras Day is celebrated on 22 August every year; in 2026 it marks the 387th anniversary of the city’s founding in 1639. It recalls the 1639 land grant under which the English East India Company obtained land at Madraspa...
The Government of India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed a $230 million loan to modernise Chennai’s water supply and sanitation infrastructure. Under the Chennai Climate-Resilient Water Security and Sewer...
