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20 stories for “GEM” · October 2026
Clear filtersThe 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...
Banjar in Himachal Pradesh has had its Community Forest Resource (CFR) rights recognised, drawing attention to how the Forest Rights Act, 2006, is being implemented. The law protects the entitlements of Scheduled Tribes...
To boost readiness for cyclones, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has introduced a new, interactive tool called the Cyclone Warning and Marine Weather Services Decision Support System (DSS). Running on a Web Geo...
The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) studied the disaster exposure of telecom towers in Assam, Gujarat, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand. In Tamil Nadu, 57% of the 48,416 towers are located in zon...
South Africa is the host of IBSAMAR Exercise 2026, the ninth edition of the maritime exercise conducted among India, Brazil and South Africa. The name IBSAMAR combines IBSA, the trilateral grouping of these three countri...
The Indian Army has introduced 'Bharat Rice' for its defence personnel and entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Food Corporation of India (FCI) to bolster military logistics. Under the arrangement, t...
The 2026 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (formally the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) has gone to two American economists, Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford. They were...
From 8 October 2026, the Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Act, 2026 is in force after the Ministry of Home Affairs notified it, though its constitutional validity is being contested in the Supreme Cou...
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has told the Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary and the Secretary of the Human Resources Management Department to instruct every department to strictly keep to the set time limits for r...
Assam's Nameri Tiger Reserve has been granted Conservation Assured Tiger Standards (CA|TS) Approved status in recognition of how it protects tigers and manages its protected area. CA|TS is an internationally accepted fra...
Tamil Nadu has earmarked ₹100.72 crore across five years, from 2026-27 to 2030-31, to bolster its forest force. Of this, a forest-fire management programme worth ₹60.58 crore will upgrade fire prevention and emergency re...
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...
