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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...
Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit has been named the 29th Chief of the Indian Air Force (IAF). He is scheduled to assume office on 31 October 2026, taking over from Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh. The Chief of the Air Staff...
Team AgniRath of IIT Madras finished third at the Sasol Solar Challenge 2026, held in South Africa, driving its solar-powered car named Aagneya. With this result the team became the first from India to take part in the e...
A rare two-headed wolf snake was rescued at Agaswani village in Dhanpur taluka of Gujarat's Dahod district. The condition, called bicephaly, is a developmental abnormality. Wolf snakes belong to the genus Lycodon of the...
Under the ULLAS (Understanding of Lifelong Learning for All in Society) initiative, Uttarakhand has been named India's sixth fully literate state in 2026. A State or Union Territory earns this tag when functional literac...
West Bengal wants to change its name to "Paschim Banga", and a Bill for this is expected in the State Assembly. Under Article 3 of the Constitution, renaming an existing state is Parliament's power, and the Bill may be i...
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....
At the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, athlete Vithya Ramraj won gold, silver and bronze, becoming the first sportsperson from Tamil Nadu to take three medals at a single Asian Games. Other medal winners listed include...
Of the 24 Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committees, six are getting new chairpersons in a reshuffle in which the Trinamool Congress (TMC) gives up two chair posts. Among BJP MPs, Sudhanshu Trivedi will lead t...
India's network of quantum-secure communication has now passed the 1,000 km mark. With this, the country has already covered more than half of the target set for the eight-year National Quantum Mission, and it has done s...
India reiterated its commitment to science-based conservation of cetaceans at the 70th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC-70) in Hobart, Australia. The IWC was set up under the International Convention...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has revised India's 2026–27 growth projection upward to 7.1%, from 6.3% estimated in June 2026. It credited strong domestic demand and government policies...
