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205 stories for “rat” · September 2026
Clear filtersThe Centre has deferred Census operations in Manipur. Meiteis, Pangals (Meitei Muslims) and Nagas demanded that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) be updated first with 1951 as the base year, and petitions in the Ma...
India's solar photovoltaic module manufacturing capacity hit 233 GW by June 2026, but cell capacity is only about 35 GW, with very little ingot and wafer capacity, exposing a large upstream gap. Module plants run at just...
Tamil Nadu announced a 10% hike in basic wages and dearness allowance for handloom weavers who are members of cooperative societies. The government's share under the Tamil Nadu Cooperative Handloom Weavers' Savings and S...
India has opened its first Green Forge Complex at the Biotechnology Research and Innovation Council–National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (BRIC-NABI) in Mohali, Punjab. The facility, described as the first of its ki...
The Indian Navy has commissioned Nipun, the second indigenously built Nistar-class Diving Support Vessel (DSV), at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai. The induction adds a second home-built ship of this class to the fleet and...
India launched its first Guide to Grasslands and Other Open Natural Ecosystems at UNCCD COP17 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. It treats grasslands, savannas, deserts, scrublands, ravines and rocky plateaus as valuable ecosyste...
The 26th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit was held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, marking 25 years of the grouping, with the theme 'Together for Sustainable Peace, Development and Prosperity'. PM Modi named 'Secur...
Tamil Nadu has introduced a Bill to amend the Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning Act, 1971, concerning development of wetlands in non-planning areas. It removes the need for the District Collector's prior concurrence a...
Argentina's Lionel Messi announced his retirement from international football on August 31, 2026. The announcement came after he led Argentina to the final of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, closing one of the most celebrated i...
NASA is getting ready to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a next-generation observatory to study dark energy, dark matter, gravity and planets outside the Solar System. It is named after Nancy Grace Roman, N...
The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reported that the global daily average sea surface temperature for the extra-polar ocean (60°S–60°N) reached a record 21.104°C on August 22, 2026, just above the earlier record...
India has become an important supplier of petrol to Russia after Ukrainian drone attacks disrupted Russian refineries. Russia's seaborne petrol imports touched a record 125,000 barrels per day in August 2026. Over the la...
