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The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has got under way in Yerevan, Armenia. The meeting will take stock of global efforts to implement the Kunming–Montreal Global Bio...
IG Defence is building JWALA-MK1, an indigenously designed short-range surface-to-air missile (SAM). The missile is based on a hard-kill approach, meaning it is meant to physically destroy hostile drones. The company has...
To boost readiness for cyclones, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has introduced a new, interactive tool called the Cyclone Warning and Marine Weather Services Decision Support System (DSS). Running on a Web Geo...
On 11 October 2026, NASA's Perseverance rover became the record holder for the longest distance driven on another world, covering 45.22 km (28.10 miles) on Mars and edging past the 45.16 km logged by NASA's Opportunity r...
The Kerala State Biodiversity Board (KSBB) has begun the Red List Assessment of Ecosystems (RLE) project, the first such State-level exercise in India. Running for one year, it is being carried out jointly by the Kerala...
The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu unveiled the Tamil Nadu Semiconductor Ecosystem Scheme 2026 in Chennai. Its goal is to position the State as a front-runner in semiconductor and advanced electronics manufacturing in Indi...
The Indian Army has introduced 'Bharat Rice' for its defence personnel and entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Food Corporation of India (FCI) to bolster military logistics. Under the arrangement, t...
The Indian Navy has taken delivery of two TROUT remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs), built indigenously by EyeROV, a company based in Kerala. TROUT is described as India's first military-grade underwater ROV. It...
On 13 October 2026, the Madras High Court ruled that the Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker had rightly accepted the resignations of six AIADMK (All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) MLAs. They had resigned between 26 May a...
India held the second meeting of the UN's GI-AI4FS (Global Initiative on Artificial Intelligence for Agri-Food Systems) in New Delhi, alongside India Mobile Congress 2026, co-hosted by TEC (Telecommunication Engineering...
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has published the Strategy for Environmental-Economic Accounts in India 2026–2030. It seeks to strengthen natural resource accounting, close data gaps and b...
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has carried out the first live jump using its indigenously developed Advanced High-Altitude Parachute (AHAP). The trial took place at Nyoma in Ladakh, a high-altit...
