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The President of India has authorised Vigilance Commissioner A.S. Rajeev to function as the Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC), following the end of Praveen Kumar Srivastava's tenure. The Department of Personnel and Tr...
Indian physicist Deepak Dhar has been named a joint recipient of the 2026 Dirac Medal, among the most prestigious honours in theoretical physics. The medal was instituted in 1985 by the Abdus Salam International Centre f...
Ladakh will start the second phase of Census 2027 on 17 August 2026 and will be among the first regions to record caste details. The schedule is expected to carry about 40 questions, including an open-ended column where...
Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma launched Mission Clouded Leopard to safeguard the State animal, the mainland clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa). It differs from the Sunda clouded leopard of Borneo and Sumatra....
Global sea surface temperatures outside the polar regions set a new record in July 2026. The average between 60°N and 60°S reached 20.96°C, beating the earlier July high of 20.89°C recorded in 2023. Rapidly strengthening...
Indian scientists observed an abnormally thick ozone layer at 21–23 km altitude over the North Bay of Bengal, with concentrations far above normal for eastern India and persisting for over 24 hours. Researchers from ARIE...
The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) has started India's first programme in which fishermen themselves remove invasive fish and restock native species, at the Ujani Reservoir in Maharashtra. The drive targets the in...
Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy Pralhad Joshi announced that the PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana has reached more than 50 lakh beneficiary households. Launched in 2024 as a central sector scheme under MNRE, it...
To combat the rising wave of digital arrest scams, the Supreme Court directed the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to prepare, within four weeks, a standard operating procedure (SOP) for handling mule bank accounts used to la...
The Supreme Court of India has published 'Judgments and Gender: Sensitivity and Compassion in Writing Judgments', which supersedes its 2023 Handbook on Combating Gender Stereotypes. The document advises replacing the wor...
Tamil Nadu has formed an Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF) with an outlay of ₹264 crore to intensify action against drug-related crime. Sixty-five ANTF units will be set up across the State, each with a dedicated police s...
IntroductionWorld Elephant Day is observed every year on 12 August to raise global awareness about the threats facing both Asian and African elephants and to promote conservation efforts. On World Elephant Day 2026, the...
