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India's first scientific trial on curbing leopard breeding through immunocontraception has started in the Junnar forest division of Pune district, Maharashtra, where two vaccinated female leopards were released into the...
NASA has picked Bengaluru-born astronomer Dr. Ramya Anche as Principal Investigator for PUFFINS, a space telescope mission worth $20 million. The acronym PUFFINS expands to Polarimetry in the Ultraviolet to Find Features...
The birth anniversary of Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam was marked on 15 October, recalling his work for science, education and young people. Born on 15 October 1931 at Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, he served as India's 11th Presi...
Satleo Labs, a spacetech startup based in Ahmedabad, has sent TAPAS-1 (Thermal Access Platform for Analytics & Solutions-1) into orbit on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket as part of the Transporter-18 rideshare mission. It is In...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has struck Paytm Payments Bank Limited (PPBL) off the Second Schedule of the RBI Act, 1934, which lists scheduled banks meeting set eligibility norms. The step follows the RBI's April 2026...
Astronomers have found a possible second-generation planet circling the white dwarf HS 0209+0832. It has been nicknamed a "phoenix planet" since it may have taken shape from matter thrown off by its dying parent star. Th...
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...
The Union government, through the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, has officially prohibited Paraquat Dichloride, a highly toxic non-selective herbicide. Paraquat is a fast-acting, broad-spectrum contact weed...
A team of Indian-led astronomers has identified eRASSU J060839.5–704014 (eRASSU J0608), a pair of white dwarfs that orbit each other in about 6.2 minutes. It is an ultracompact double-white-dwarf binary whose orbit is sh...
The foundation stone for ISRO's Advanced Radar Research Centre has been laid at Chandrapur near Guwahati, Assam. The centre comes under Project NETRA (Network for Space Object Tracking and Analysis), India's programme fo...
The National Stock Exchange (NSE) has facilitated tokenised corporate bond issuances totalling ₹1,000 crore. The deals were done under SEBI's Regulatory Sandbox Framework with guidance and support from the Reserve Bank o...
The seventh Global Fintech Fest (GFF) 2026 took place in Mumbai with the theme "Potential to Impact: Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI), Tokenisation, Quantum". The three focus technologies were Agentic AI, Tokenisatio...
