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To monitor the quality of National Highway projects, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has rolled out Mobile Quality Control Vans. They are being tried out first in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Karnataka and Odi...
The 16th edition of Vajra Prahar, a joint special forces exercise between the Indian Army and the US Army, is being held at Bakloh in Himachal Pradesh from 23 February to 15 March 2026. The exercise aims to improve inter...
According to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), India was the second-biggest purchaser of Russian fossil fuels in January 2026, after China. India bought €2.2 billion (US$2.59 billion) of Russian ene...
Amaravati in Andhra Pradesh will be home to India's first Quantum Valley under the National Quantum Mission. The hub is intended to bring together research, start-ups and industry for quantum computing, communication and...
A multilingual Hoysala inscription from the 12th century, during the reign of Narasimha I, was found at the Sri Mahalakshmi Temple in K. Bettahalli village, Pandavapura taluk, Mandya district, Karnataka. Carved in nine l...
Two new State Information Commissioners have joined the Tamil Nadu Information Commission: Atulya Misra, a retired IAS officer, and Abhay Kumar Singh, a retired IPS officer. The State government had, in December last yea...
Tamil Nadu constituted a 16-member State-level Steering Committee to prepare a Human Resources for Health strategy under the World Bank-backed Enhanced Health Service Delivery Program (EHSDP). It is chaired by the Additi...
After the Special Intensive Revision, the final electoral rolls of Tamil Nadu show over 5.67 crore electors: 2,89,60,838 women, 2,77,38,925 men and 7,617 third-gender voters. Sholinganallur in Chengalpattu has the most v...
A 51-year-old astrologer has been handed a combined sentence of 200 years of rigorous imprisonment by a POCSO court in Sivagangai for sexually assaulting two minor girls in 2021. He had been arrested in 2022. The court a...
In Nagercoil, the Chief Minister unveiled a statue of Ponnappa Nadar, a freedom fighter and Congress leader. The memorial recognises the part he played, together with Marshall Nesamani, in the movement that resulted in K...
On 1 February 2026 the Sun released an X8.3 flare, the most powerful so far this year. Solar flares are abrupt energy bursts caused by shifts in the Sun's magnetic field and are graded A, B, C, M and X, X being strongest...
Saundala village in Maharashtra passed a Gram Sabha resolution on 5 February 2026 declaring itself caste-free. Adopting the motto 'Aamchi jaat... manav' (My caste is humanity), the village guarantees equal access for all...
