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30 stories for “Science and Technology” · August 2026
Clear filtersUnder its BRICS Presidency, India hosted the 8th BRICS Working Group on Ocean and Polar Science and Technology (OPST) in Goa. The Ministry of Earth Sciences organised the meeting, hosted by the National Centre for Polar...
The 16th BRICS Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Senior Officials' Meeting (SOM) ended in Chennai, preceding the 14th BRICS STI Ministerial Meeting. Held under India's BRICS Chairship 2026 with the theme "Building...
Indian scientists from the Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (IASST) and IIT-Guwahati have created RK-251, a “smart” anticancer drug meant to switch on mainly inside cancer cells, which could reduce h...
IntroductionTo overcome heavy import dependency on foreign electronic sub-assemblies and build end-to-end semiconductor and hardware supply chain resilience, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)...
IntroductionIn a major leap for indigenous precision-strike military technology, India's first fully indigenous jet-powered loitering munition (kamikaze drone), 'Divyastra Mk3', successfully cleared its maiden flight tri...
IntroductionAs part of India's ongoing BRICS Presidency 2026, the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) inaugurated the 8th Meeting of the BRICS Working Group on Ocean and Polar Science and Technology (OPST) in Goa on 18 Aug...
IntroductionMarking a triumphant personal and scientific milestone in orbital human spaceflight, Indian-origin NASA astronaut Dr. Anil Menon successfully completed his first career spacewalk (Extravehicular Activity - EV...
IntroductionUnder the technology and innovation pillar of the Sapta Dhara framework, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 15 August 2026 announced a flagship national mission to train 1 crore (10 million) young Indians in Art...
IntroductionIn a major boost to India's sovereign digital economy and AI computing infrastructure, global technology giant Microsoft on 16 August 2026 inaugurated its fourth and largest India Cloud data centre region in...
IntroductionFirmly countering repeated, unilateral attempts by China to rename geographic locations in India's northeastern frontier, the Survey of India officially updated its national cartographic maps on 16 August 202...
IntroductionIn a groundbreaking green technology breakthrough, researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati) announced on 16 August 2026 the development of a highly efficient, novel two-stage...
IntroductionTo secure round-the-clock baseload zero-carbon power for Viksit Bharat 2047, the Government of India on 16 August 2026 outlined its comprehensive Nuclear Energy Roadmap aiming to scale national nuclear electr...
