Science & Technology
Space, defence tech, biotechnology and digital infrastructure
G20 satellite expected to be launched in 2027: ISRO chief Narayanan
ISRO Chairman V. Narayanan announced that a satellite being developed collaboratively by G20 nations, under India's leadership, is expected to be launched in...
Dr. Bharti nominated to WHO’s oversight committee for neglected tropical diseases
Dr. Bharti has been nominated as an independent expert on neglected zoonotic diseases to the 18-member Global Oversight Committee (GOC) under the WHO's Negle...
Pope condemns use of AI to fuel 'polarisation, conflict, fear and violence'
Pope Leo XIV, speaking at the Catholic University of Central Africa in Yaoundé, Cameroon on April 17, 2026, condemned the use of artificial intelligence to f...
H5N1 virus detected in Hesaraghatta poultry centre near Bengaluru; no need for panic, says Dinesh Gundu Rao
H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) was confirmed at the state-run poultry centre in Hesaraghatta, on the outskirts of Bengaluru, Karnataka, follow...
White House to give U.S. agencies Anthropic Mythos access: Report
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) moved to provide major US federal agencies — including the Treasury, intelligence community, and CISA (...
OpenAI launches AI model GPT-Rosalind for life sciences research
OpenAI launched GPT-Rosalind, a specialised artificial intelligence model designed to support research in biochemistry, drug discovery, genomics, and transla...
OpenAI to spend more than $20 billion on Cerebras chips, receive equity stake: Report
OpenAI has agreed to spend more than $20 billion over three years on servers powered by Cerebras Systems chips, with total potential spending reaching $30 bi...
UK PM tells social media bosses to step up child online safety
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer summoned senior executives from Meta, X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, Snap, and YouTube to Downing Street on April 16, 2026, to ...
‘Cruelly hot’: Japan devises new term for heatwave days
Japan's Meteorological Agency (JMA) announced the creation of a new temperature classification term — "kokusho-bi" (酷暑日), meaning "cruelly hot day" — for day...
U.S. cloud dominance a risk to European security: Report
A report published by the Brussels-based Future of Technology Institute (FOTI) on April 17, 2026 found that national security systems in 23 of 28 European co...
House extends surveillance powers until April 30 after late-night revolt sinks GOP plan
The US House of Representatives, in a late-night vote, passed a short-term extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), exte...
Govt forms high-level inter-ministerial body to steer AI governance strategy
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has constituted the AI Governance and Economic Group (AIGEG), a high-level inter-ministerial b...
EU spells out how Google must share data with rivals
The European Commission issued preliminary findings on April 16, 2026, specifying the precise data-sharing obligations Google must fulfil under the EU's Digi...
Starlink outage hit drone tests, exposing Pentagon’s growing reliance on SpaceX
During a global Starlink outage in 2025, more than two dozen US Navy unmanned surface vessels (USVs) lost contact and drifted for nearly an hour, with operat...
Banking FDI for nuclear power projects in the pipeline, says official
Seema Jain, Member (Finance) at the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), stated that banking finance and FDI for nuclear power projects are in active planning,...
EU in talks with Anthropic over risks of AI model Mythos
The European Union entered into talks with Anthropic over the risks posed by its Mythos AI model — an advanced AI system capable of identifying and exploitin...
Improving cleft care in the age of AI
An estimated 30,000 children are born annually in India with cleft lip and/or cleft palate — one of the most common congenital craniofacial conditions worldw...
India turns the tables on China: The great supply chain flip begins
India has recorded USD 2.5 billion in electronics component exports to China in FY26, marking a historic reversal — for decades India was purely an importer ...
1.5 lakh collision alerts for Indian satellites in 2025
India's Indian Space Situational Awareness Report (ISSAR) 2025 revealed that ISRO's Earth-orbiting satellites received over 1.5 lakh (150,000) close-approach...
Establishing a vaccine injury compensation mechanism for India
A recent opinion piece argues that when the State strongly promotes mass vaccination as a civic duty — as it did during the COVID-19 immunisation drive — it ...