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37 stories for “GER” · September 2026
Clear filtersBhagwat Prasad Makwana has been named Chairperson and Kaishab Bihari Vice-Chairperson of the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (NCSK). The NCSK was set up on 12 August 1994 under the NCSK Act, 1993, and turned in...
Majuli in Assam and Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh have built community-driven systems for rural waste management. In Majuli, waste is collected in 19 of 20 panchayats, sorted at Central Material Collection Facilities and s...
The G20 Innovation Ministers' Meeting was held on 1-2 September 2026 at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Ministers adopted an Innovation Ministerial Statement spanning six areas, including pro-innovation policy, emergin...
Union Minister Jitendra Singh launched BIO-NIVESH in New Delhi, a platform that connects biotechnology startups with investors. It seeks to draw more private investment into biotech innovations that are ready to scale up...
Sikkim has flagged 40 high-hazard glacial lakes, 16 of them in the top-risk Category A for possible Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs). Such lakes form from glacier meltwater and can burst suddenly due to excess water...
Maharashtra's Melghat and Pench Tiger Reserves have become India's most successful sites for releasing captive-bred vultures. Of 29 vultures freed in the two reserves between December 2025 and January 2026, survival rate...
The UN General Assembly adopted the "Correct the Map" resolution encouraging world maps that show Africa's true size. It was backed by 164 countries, with the United States voting against and six abstaining. It promotes...
Concerns over the striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) have highlighted gaps in population data and conservation planning in India. The species is Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List, with an estimated 5,000-14,000 animals wor...
The Reserve Bank of India's special USD-INR forex swap facility has drawn in $136.377 billion. Of this, $127.226 billion came via FCNR(B) deposits, $5.260 billion via Overseas Foreign Currency Borrowings and $3.891 billi...
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...
The Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) in Assam has marked 25 years of rescue and rehabilitation work. Set up at Panbari near Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve, it is India's first dedicat...
Arunachal Pradesh has recorded the first verifiable photographic evidence of the spoon-tailed duskhawker (Gynacantha basiguttata) in Namdapha National Park and Tiger Reserve. With this record, the species has been added...
