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Gujarat has passed the Uniform Civil Code Bill, 2026, becoming the second state after Uttarakhand to adopt a common civil law for all communities. The law governs marriage, divorce, succession and live-in relationships,...
Researchers at IIT Guwahati have created an MXene-based material that can both generate hydrogen and desalinate water using sunlight. MXenes were reshaped into ultra-thin, ribbon-like structures to raise surface activity...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has lost contact with the Coronagraph spacecraft of its Proba-3 mission following a power failure.Proba-3 is the first mission to use precision formation flying to study the corona, the Su...
StartupTN and TNWeSafe (Tamil Nadu Women Safety Project) have launched the EmpowHer 1.0 programme to support women entrepreneurs in Tamil Nadu.The programme aims to reach over 6,000 aspiring women entrepreneurs across th...
**Overview** On March 1, 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation stones for multiple development projects worth over ₹2,700 crore in Puducherry, aiming to comprehensively enhance the region...
OVERVIEWNational Science Day 2026 was celebrated across India on February 28, marking the discovery of the Raman Effect by C. V. Raman. The theme for this year, “Indigenous Technologies for Viksit Bharat,” emphasized Ind...
Early results from radio-tagging Olive Ridley turtles off Chennai suggest the animals come back to the same nesting sites. This is Tamil Nadu's first telemetry study of the species, which the Advanced Institute for Wildl...
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...
The National Statistics Office released a beta Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for eSankhyiki, India's national portal for official statistics. MCP allows AI tools to query datasets in real time without downloading f...
The President approved Padma Awards 2026 for 13 people from Tamil Nadu: two Padma Bhushan and 11 Padma Shri. Padma Bhushan goes to S.K.M. Maeilanandhan, executive chairman of the Erode-based SKM Group, for social work, a...
On 1 February 2026, Nirmala Sitharaman presented her ninth straight Union Budget, the first ever delivered on a Sunday, and also tabled the 16th Finance Commission report on tax devolution for 2026-2031. India's first fu...
Chief Minister M. K. Stalin launched the Tamil Nadu Women Employment and Safety (TNWESafe) Project (World Bank-financed) and a state-wide free HPV vaccination programme at the Tamil Nadu Global Women Summit 2026. Startin...
