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The 11th BRICS Culture Ministers' Meeting ended in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, with members adopting the Bhopal Declaration. The declaration sets out the shared commitments of BRICS countries on cooperation in culture and th...
The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) enabled the first-ever commercial shipment of GI-tagged Mithila Makhana from Bihar to Australia by sea. Mithila Makhana is an aquatic fox...
World Lion Day was marked on 10 August 2026 to raise awareness about lion conservation and threats such as habitat loss, poaching and human-wildlife conflict. As apex predators, lions keep prey numbers in check and maint...
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...
