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232 stories for “UN” · October 2026
Clear filtersAt Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, the Indian-born female cheetah KJP21 has delivered five cubs. Their father is a male brought in from Botswana, so these are the first cheetahs of Botswana lineage to be born on In...
India has carried out its first demonstration of a free-space Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) link. The link stretched 5.56 km and connected the Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics...
eSanjeevani, India's National Telemedicine Service, has now handled more than 50 crore teleconsultations, with usage spread over every State and Union Territory. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare started the serv...
The government has now listed 375 allowed works under the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) [VB-G RAM G] Act, 2025. That is 41% more than the 266 works allowed earlier. The works are groupe...
The National Statistics Office (NSO) has published results of India's first National Household Travel Survey (NHTS), carried out between July 2025 and June 2026. Just 15% of workers rely on public transport, while 46% co...
The 2026 Physics Nobel has gone to Belgian-American physicist Francis Halzen, honoured for his role in building the IceCube neutrino observatory and for the detection of high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources....
Bird watchers in Chennai have reported a rare visitor: a Japanese Sparrowhawk (Tachyspiza gularis) was spotted at the Adyar Estuary. According to records, this is only the third time the species has ever been documented...
On 6 October 2026, the Supreme Court closed a case pending for over two decades, noting that the Tamil Nadu Assembly had withdrawn the contested resolution back in 2004. A seven-judge Bench led by Chief Justice of India...
World Habitat Day falls on the first Monday of October each year, and was observed on 5 October 2026 with the theme "Adequate Housing for All". Designated by the United Nations (UN) in 1985, the day draws attention to th...
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel share the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, honouring their work on optogenetics and light-gated ion channels. Hegemann and Nagel found channelrhodopsin, a protei...
On 28 September 2026, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) performed its third gravity assist around Earth, adding roughly 12,606 km/h (3.5 km/s) to its speed during the flyby. In a gravit...
In a first, two male Great Indian Bustards (GIBs) bred in captivity were released into the wild at Desert National Park in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. The release forms part of the Bustard Recovery Programme for this criticall...
