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Western Tamil Nadu witnessed a massive butterfly migration once the Northeast monsoon set in, with swarms reported in Salem, Namakkal, Erode, Tiruppur and Coimbatore districts. The species on the move were the Blue Tiger...
At Kavaratti, Administrator Praful Patel announced that Lakshadweep has become a fully (100%) literate Union Territory. The achievement came through ULLAS (Understanding of Lifelong Learning for All in Society) – Nav Bha...
Antarctic sea ice hit its third-lowest winter peak since satellite monitoring began, extending over about 17.59 million square kilometres on 14 September 2026. That was roughly 1 million square kilometres short of the lo...
While a strong El Niño expected in 2026 usually weakens rainfall across much of India, Tamil Nadu could see the opposite: heavy northeast monsoon rain and cyclones, fed by moist Bay of Bengal winds and warmer seas. El Ni...
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...
During the June–September 2026 southwest monsoon, Tamil Nadu received its lowest Cauvery water share in 14 years. Only 44.208 tmc ft arrived against the normal 123.14 tmc ft, leaving a deficit of almost 79 tmc ft. As of...
The National Statistics Office (NSO) has published results of India's first National Household Travel Survey (NHTS), carried out between July 2025 and June 2026. Just 15% of workers rely on public transport, while 46% co...
The 2026 Physics Nobel has gone to Belgian-American physicist Francis Halzen, honoured for his role in building the IceCube neutrino observatory and for the detection of high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources....
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel share the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, honouring their work on optogenetics and light-gated ion channels. Hegemann and Nagel found channelrhodopsin, a protei...
The National Statistical Office (NSO) has published its 80th Round report on Domestic Tourism in India, based on a survey from July 2025 to June 2026. Pilgrimage and religious travel accounted for about 48% of overnight...
India took part in the first Partners for Multilateralism (P4M) Summit, held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. P4M is a coalition of middle powers, regional organisations and developing coun...
DRDO is developing a 30 kilowatt (kW) directed-energy weapon (DEW) under the Integrated Drone Detection and Interdiction System (IDD&IS) Mk-II(A). The system is designed to neutralise drones and surveillance sensors at r...
