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The UN High Seas Treaty - the Agreement on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) - came into force on 18 January 2026, protecting marine life across more than two-thi...
Odisha will become the first Indian state to launch a comprehensive CKD registry by 31 March 2026, with software developed by the National Informatics Centre, to generate reliable prevalence data for evidence-based polic...
India marked the 151st Foundation Day of the IMD on 15 January 2026, deploying 200 Automatic Weather Stations in cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Pune to improve hyper-local weather forecasting; IMD works unde...
MeitY's Digital India BHASHINI Division, with Wadhwani AI, held the BHASHINI Samudaye workshop in New Delhi to strengthen India's Language AI ecosystem under the National Language Translation Mission, launching the Datas...
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways launched a data-driven Zero-Fatalities Programme in 100 high-risk districts across 15 states, aiming to halve road-accident deaths by 2030 using crash data, critical-location m...
In January 2026, India’s performance in global indices and national development assessments continued to draw attention, with key insights emerging from reports released by institutions such as NITI Aayog and internation...
The Union Home Minister inaugurated the National IED Data Management System (NIDMS), a national digital platform for storing and analysing Improvised Explosive Device (IED) data. Developed by the National Bomb Data Centr...
In January 2026, the Government of India accelerated the implementation of the India Semiconductor Mission 2.0 to strengthen domestic chip manufacturing and reduce dependency on imports. The initiative focuses on establi...
The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) launched BHARATI (Bharat's Hub for Agritech, Resilience, Advancement and Incubation for Export Enablement) to support agri-food and agri-t...
UNICEF signed a landmark partnership with the Government of Tamil Nadu, making it UNICEF's first-ever sub-national government partner anywhere in the world. UNICEF's Office of Innovation will support technical capacity a...
A National Environmental Standard Laboratory (NESL) has opened at CSIR-National Physical Laboratory in New Delhi. It will test, calibrate and certify air-pollution monitoring instruments for Indian weather conditions and...
The Centre announced a regional office of the National Turmeric Board and an accredited turmeric testing lab in Erode, a major turmeric market in Tamil Nadu. The Board is based in Nizamabad, Telangana, and comes under th...
