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World Bamboo Day is observed on September 18 to raise awareness about bamboo. Bamboo is a fast-growing grass, and some species can grow up to 36 inches (91 cm) in 24 hours. There are over…
1 / 10The International Day for Interventional Cardiology is observed on September 16. The UN General Assembly proclaimed it in 2022 to spread awareness of cardiovascular diseases and interventional heart procedures. The date recalls the first coronary…
2 / 10The International Day of Science, Technology and Innovation for the South is marked every year on 16 September. It promotes science, technology and innovation (STI) for sustainable and inclusive development across the Global South.
3 / 10The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports named four winners of the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Awards 2024. Baljeet Kaur (Himachal Pradesh) won the Land Adventure award as the first Indian to climb five 8,000-metre…
4 / 10The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute's 2026 report states that India's Electoral Democracy Index has fallen to its lowest since 1975. V-Dem assesses democracy using indicators on elections, institutions, rights and freedoms.
5 / 10Astronomers have confirmed Elias 2-24 b as the youngest planet known, less than 1 million years old. It circles the star Elias 2-24, roughly 450 light-years away, and has a mass comparable to Jupiter. The…
6 / 10The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has introduced the Information Technology Resilience Index (ITRI) for Market Infrastructure Institutions (MIIs). It will rate IT systems on nine parameters such as availability, security, integrity, governance…
7 / 10Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated SEMICON India 2026 in New Delhi, the country's fifth major semiconductor conference, and noted India's move towards commercial chip production. The event aimed to strengthen the semiconductor ecosystem across chip…
8 / 10The Union Home Minister inaugurated the two-day 9th National Security Strategies (NSS) Conference 2026 in New Delhi. Sessions covered counter-terrorism, intelligence sharing through the Multi Agency Centre (MAC), narcotics control and illegal migration. Participants also…
9 / 10India's 51st Doppler Weather Radar (DWR) was inaugurated at Sambalpur in Odisha. A DWR uses radio waves to track where rainfall and severe weather are, how they move and how intense they are. With this…
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