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The Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, is preparing the country's first national-level assessment of the population, distribution and range of all four bear species in India, which belong to the family Ursidae....
New Delhi is the venue for the 7th Agrivoltaics World Conference 2026, hosted by India and the first edition of the event to be held in the Global South. Agrivoltaics (AgriPV) means using the same land for both crop cult...
The Tamil Nadu government has reconstituted the Tamil Nadu Real Estate Regulatory Authority (TNRERA), with retired IAS officer K. Phanindra Reddy as its chairperson. The members are retired bureaucrats Reeta Harish Thakk...
The Tamil Nadu government has ordered a rainwater harvesting (RWH) campaign across the State to conserve water and recharge groundwater. Existing RWH structures will be revived, and fresh facilities will be set up in hou...
Police Commemoration Day, also called Police Shaheed Diwas or Police Martyrs Day, is marked on 21 October to pay tribute to police personnel who laid down their lives on duty. It recalls 21 October 1959, when 10 Indian p...
India's solar observatory Aditya-L1 has produced Doppler velocity images of the Sun's corona with its Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC). These images let scientists follow how solar plasma moves and work out which...
President Droupadi Murmu has issued the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Councils (LAHDC) (Amendment) Regulation, 2026, clearing the path for hill council polls in all eight districts of Ladakh, including the newly for...
To fight hidden hunger, India has developed Kufri Jamunia, a biofortified, purple-coloured potato variety. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research–Central Potato Research Institute (ICAR-CPRI) bred it and released it...
KAUMARACON-2026, the third International Conference on Kaumarabhritya, was opened by the Vice-President. The All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) hosted the event under the theme "Shaping the Future of Child Health: Gl...
The Union Territory of Ladakh now has a High Court bench at Leh, situated around 3,500 metres above sea level. It functions under the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, originally set up on 26 March 1928 and ren...
Banjar in Himachal Pradesh has had its Community Forest Resource (CFR) rights recognised, drawing attention to how the Forest Rights Act, 2006, is being implemented. The law protects the entitlements of Scheduled Tribes...
The ICAR–National Soybean Research Institute (NSRI), Indore, Madhya Pradesh, has presented two improved soybean (Glycine max) varieties, NRC 268 and NRC 270, which gave early yields of about 20 quintals per hectare. Both...
