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Approval has been granted by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs for a twin-tube tunnel under the Brahmaputra River in Assam that will carry both road and rail traffic. It will be the first underwater tunnel of thi...
A new flowering plant of the Acanthaceae family, Dicliptera pakhalica, was described from Pakhal Wildlife Sanctuary, Telangana, named after Pakhal Lake and rated Data Deficient under IUCN guidelines; the genus has over 2...
The World Bank held up Karnataka's 2014 fiscal reform as an example for other States. Karnataka began counting the borrowings of its Public Sector Undertakings and Special Purpose Vehicles as State liabilities, which imp...
The highly esteemed Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology is currently conducting vastly extensive, scientifically rigorous archaeological excavations across eight major historical sites throughout the ongoing 2025-...
The foundation stone for the State's first Sea Turtle Conservation Centre was laid at Guindy, Chennai. The Centre of Excellence will cost Rs 14.50 crore and is being set up under the World Bank-supported TN-SHORE (Tamil...
India is planning 100 gigawatts of hydro pumped storage by 2047 to manage electricity supply and support renewables. The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has identified 120 potential sites; about 22 GW is already unde...
India's first open-sea fish farming project began in the Andaman Sea near North Bay, Sri Vijaya Puram. The Ministry of Earth Sciences and the National Institute of Ocean Technology are running it with sea cages designed...
Spain joined India's Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI) and handed its declaration of accession to the External Affairs Minister. India launched IPOI in 2019 under its SAGAR vision. It is a voluntary, non-treaty platf...
Scientists discovered a new ginger species named Parakaempferia alba of the Zingiberaceae family in the Siang Valley of Arunachal Pradesh.
India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives concluded the 17th edition of the trilateral Coast Guard exercise DOSTI-17, which was hosted by the Maldives. The exercise strengthens maritime cooperation and interoperability among the...
India's oceanographic research vessel INS Sagardhwani was flagged off from Kochi for Sagar Maitri-5 (Marine & Allied Interdisciplinary Training and Research Initiative), involving eight Indian Ocean Rim countries to stre...
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...
