Social Issues
Science & Technology
4 min
Preventing diabetes before birth, to offer hope for future generations
A shift in strategy for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) screening has been advocated: moving intervention from the conventional second trimester to the f...
International Relations
Science & Technology
Economics
4 min
With digitalisation and sustainability in focus, India, Finland elevate bilateral ties to strategic partnership
India and Finland elevated bilateral ties to a Strategic Partnership in Digitalisation and Sustainability during Finnish President Alexander Stubb's visit to...
Science & Technology
5 min
Scientists successfully grow chickpeas in ‘moon dirt’ — How do they taste?
Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University successfully grew and harvested chickpeas in simulated lunar soil (regolith simul...
Polity & Governance
Science & Technology
4 min
Fitness Certificates only at designated RTO locations geo-fenced through mVahan app
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has mandated that fitness certificates for commercial vehicles will now be issued only at designated RTO ...
Polity & Governance
Social Issues
Science & Technology
6 min
Medical colleges asked to link patients’ digital health records
The National Medical Commission (NMC) has directed all medical college hospitals to integrate digital health records of every patient — OPD visits, emergency...
Science & Technology
Social Issues
5 min
ACTREC working on app to help assess risk of breast, oral, gall bladder cancers
The Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), the R&D wing of Tata Memorial Centre, is developing a mobile application to ass...
Science & Technology
Economics
4 min
BEL, Bellatrix Aerospace sign MoU to develop technologies for VLEO
Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) and Bengaluru-based startup Bellatrix Aerospace signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly design, develop, and m...
Science & Technology
Economics
5 min
BEL, Bellatrix ink pact to develop very low Earth orbit satellite systems
Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), India's defence electronics major, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bengaluru-based space technology startup...
Science & Technology
International Relations
4 min
What are ‘gravity bombs’, which the US is planning to shift to in Iran?
The US is reportedly shifting towards the use of gravity bombs, including bunker-busting variants, in its military operations against Iranian nuclear facilit...
International Relations
Science & Technology
4 min
An atomic tug of war
Escalating geopolitical tensions have reignited concerns about nuclear proliferation, with multiple nations reassessing their nuclear postures in what analys...
Science & Technology
5 min
MAHE establishes Q-Hub to advance India’s indigenous quantum hardware ecosystem
Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) formally established Quantum-Hub@MAHE (Q-Hub@MAHE) at its Manipal Institute of Technology campus in Bengaluru, ali...
Science & Technology
5 min
BEL ties up with Bellatrix Aerospace to develop satellite systems for VLEO operations
Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) and Bellatrix Aerospace signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on the design, development, and manufactur...
International Relations
Science & Technology
5 min
India-Canada uranium deal and India’s nuclear programme | Explained
India and Canada signed a landmark $2.6 billion uranium supply agreement between the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and Saskatchewan-based Canadian mining...
International Relations
Science & Technology
5 min
Minuteman III: ‘doomsday’ missile of U.S. amid escalating war tensions with Iran
The US Air Force test-launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from Vandenberg Space Force Base amid escalating tensions w...
International Relations
Science & Technology
Internal Security
4 min
Versatile new US missile PrSM that packs twice the punch of older ATACMS debuts in Iran war theatre
The United States deployed the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM), manufactured by Lockheed Martin, against Iranian missile sites during the high-intensity phas...
Science & Technology
Social Issues
5 min
India, China top Asia-Pacific region with highest metabolic diseases burden
A study has found that India and China top the Asia-Pacific region in terms of the burden of metabolic diseases, measured in DALYs (Disability-Adjusted Life ...
Science & Technology
Social Issues
5 min
‘Free’ vaccines, single-dose nudge pushes India-made HPV vaccine to back of the line
India launched a nationwide free HPV vaccination programme on 28 February 2026, targeting girls aged 9–14 with a single dose of HPV vaccine, tracked via the ...
Science & Technology
International Relations
4 min
Inaugural Edition of Raisina Science Diplomacy Initiative (SDI) focuses on Strategic Autonomy and Disruptive Technologies
The inaugural edition of the Raisina Science Diplomacy Initiative (SDI) was held at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, on March 5, 2026, jointly launched by the Off...
Science & Technology
Economics
4 min
Expert Explains | How thorium can power India’s 100 GWe by 2047 mission
India has set a target of achieving 100 GWe (gigawatts-electric) of nuclear power capacity by 2047, the centenary year of independence, as part of its energy...
Science & Technology
Polity & Governance
5 min
Google sued by Florida family after AI chatbot allegedly led to death
The family of Jonathan Gavalas, a 36-year-old from Jupiter, Florida, filed a federal lawsuit against Google in the Northern District of California, alleging ...