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India collected 15 medals - four gold, three silver and eight bronze - at the World Archery Para Series Stage III held in Ahmedabad. Sheetal Devi won the women's compound gold, while Toman Kumar and Shyam Sunder Swami to...
Shakti Sharma has become the first woman officer from the non-medical branch of the Indian Air Force (IAF) to reach the rank of Air Vice Marshal. The promotion marks a milestone for women officers in the armed forces.
NASA is getting ready to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a next-generation observatory to study dark energy, dark matter, gravity and planets outside the Solar System. It is named after Nancy Grace Roman, N...
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has officially registered 16 new indigenous breeds of livestock and dogs, approved at the 14th meeting of the Breed Registration Committee. India now has 262 registered...
Tamil Nadu announced new industrial parks and worker accommodation in the State Assembly. ₹130 crore will fund housing for over 2,500 workers at the SIPCOT Industrial Park, Gangaikondan. A 2,570-acre clean and renewable...
Somanath Sreedhara Panicker has been appointed and Anand Gopal Mahindra re-appointed as part-time Non-Official Directors on the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Both will serve for a term of four years w...
IntroductionIn response to persistent missile and drone strikes on commercial merchant vessels along vital Middle Eastern chokepoints, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on 18 August 2026 officially operationalised the Multinat...
IntroductionIn a historic triumph for women in armed combat roles, Squadron Leader Bhawana Kanth created history on 17 August 2026 by becoming the first woman fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force (IAF) to qualify as a '...
IntroductionIn an inspiring feat of human endurance and determination, 58-year-old K. Jayalakshmi, a polio-affected woman from Chennai, created history on 16 August 2026 by becoming the first woman with a locomotor disab...
IntroductionThe Indian student delegation achieved remarkable international acclaim by securing one gold medal, three bronze medals, and one Honourable Mention at the 23rd International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) 2026, h...
IntroductionIndia scripted space history on 12 August 2026 with the successful launch of Chandrayaan-4, the country's first-ever lunar sample return mission, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota. The...
The Supreme Court held that the criminal offence of domestic cruelty extends to live-in relationships between consenting adults that qualify as "relationships in the nature of marriage". The question before it was whethe...
