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Breast Cancer Awareness Month runs every year through October, from the 1st to the 31st. Its purpose is to increase public understanding of breast cancer and to widen access to early diagnosis and good-quality treatment...
World Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day is marked on 8 October to spread awareness of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. For the 2026 observance, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) held an event in New Delhi on h...
Anne Carson, the Canadian writer, has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. The honour recognises her inventive writing, which shapes fresh forms of contemporary literature by engaging in a conversation with c...
The Ramanujan Prize 2026 has been conferred on Professor Mahesh Kakde, who works at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, honouring his contributions to algebraic number theory. The prize has been presented...
The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) is staging SAREX-2026, the 12th edition of the National Maritime Search and Rescue Exercise. This year the drill is being held in the waters off the Paradip coast in Odisha. SAREX is the nati...
New Delhi is hosting the 10th India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2026, and this edition has been given the theme "Scale Without Boundaries." The event's agenda spans a wide range of next-generation technologies: 6G and 5G netwo...
Tamil Nadu has earmarked ₹100.72 crore across five years, from 2026-27 to 2030-31, to bolster its forest force. Of this, a forest-fire management programme worth ₹60.58 crore will upgrade fire prevention and emergency re...
World Space Week, held from 4 to 10 October, celebrates the contribution of space science and technology to human development and encourages education, innovation and international cooperation. The 2026 theme is 'Rocket...
World Cotton Day is marked every year on 7 October. The day highlights why cotton matters and recognises how the crop supports livelihoods, trade and economic development around the world. For 2026, the observance carrie...
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for their discoveries of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. Their research deals with chemical processes y...
The WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) Living Planet Report 2026 recorded an average 73% fall in monitored vertebrate population sizes between 1970 and 2022. Its Living Planet Index (LPI), compiled by the Zoological Societ...
India figures among the ten best-performing emerging markets on AI (Artificial Intelligence) readiness, per a World Bank report released in October 2026 under the title "India and Artificial Intelligence: Seizing the Dev...
