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67 stories for “Indian” · October 2026
Clear filtersThe Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, is preparing the country's first national-level assessment of the population, distribution and range of all four bear species in India, which belong to the family Ursidae....
On 20 October 2026, three Indian sites were included in the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List: Baratang's Karst-Mud-Volcano Complex, the Andaman Subduction Volcanoes and the Sirpur Cultural and Archaeological Landscap...
Scientists at the Marine Biology Regional Centre of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Chennai, have identified two marine fish species new to science, a sandperch and an electric ray. The sandperch lives on the seabe...
The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and New Zealand took effect on 20 October 2026, becoming India's 17th operational FTA. New Zealand has scrapped tariffs on all Indian goods, while India has started offering t...
The Indian Army has carried out Exercise Akhand Prahar-II at Jaisalmer in Rajasthan. The exercise was held to evaluate how prepared the forces are for combat and to put technology-enabled military operations to the test....
Police Commemoration Day, also called Police Shaheed Diwas or Police Martyrs Day, is marked on 21 October to pay tribute to police personnel who laid down their lives on duty. It recalls 21 October 1959, when 10 Indian p...
India has begun evaluating all 1,211 regularly occurring bird species, under the IUCN framework. The work is led by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), the IUCN SSC Center for Species Survival India–Wildlife Trust of I...
ISRO has completed a series of tests on separating the Crew Module and Service Module (CM–SM) at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The trials were meant to confirm that the two module...
India's solar observatory Aditya-L1 has produced Doppler velocity images of the Sun's corona with its Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC). These images let scientists follow how solar plasma moves and work out which...
To fight hidden hunger, India has developed Kufri Jamunia, a biofortified, purple-coloured potato variety. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research–Central Potato Research Institute (ICAR-CPRI) bred it and released it...
The Sub-Commission for the Indian Ocean (IOCINDIO), which functions under UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), has elected Dr. T. M. Balakrishnan Nair as its Chair. Dr. Nair heads the Indian Nationa...
The fifth edition of AUSTRAHIND, the joint military exercise conducted between India and Australia, got under way in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The exercise series is a regular bilateral defence engagement that brings t...
