Science & Technology
Space, defence tech, biotechnology and digital infrastructure
Biopharma SHAKTI Scheme
The Government has formally launched the Biopharma SHAKTI scheme with a total outlay of ₹10,000 crore over five years, announced initially in Union Budget 20...
India's outsourcing industry is worth $300bn. Can it survive AI?
India's IT outsourcing industry, valued at approximately $300-315 billion and employing around 6 million people, is facing an existential reckoning as artifi...
MeitY failed to convince finance ministry for funds for key tech initiatives, says parliamentary panel
A parliamentary standing committee has warned that India's push in artificial intelligence and semiconductor sectors is being undermined by MeitY's failure t...
Government clears 23 institutions to set up ‘quantum labs’
Twenty-three academic institutions across India have been cleared to establish quantum teaching laboratories under the National Quantum Mission (NQM), as ann...
HC permits extraction, cryopreserving gametes of brain-dead person
The Kerala High Court (Justice M.B. Snehalatha) granted interim permission to a wife to have her brain-dead husband's gametes extracted and cryopreserved for...
Par Panel recommends subsidy on EV tractor, support on education of small farmers
A Parliamentary Standing Committee has recommended subsidising electric vehicle (EV) tractors to make them accessible to small and marginal farmers, noting t...
New nanomedicine-based gel from BITS Pilani shows encouraging preclinical results for rheumatoid arthritis
Researchers at BITS Pilani have developed a nanoparticle-based topical gel designed to deliver anti-inflammatory drugs directly to inflamed joints in rheumat...
TN AVGC policy envisions 2 lakh jobs in emerging industries
The Government of Tamil Nadu formally approved its AVGC-XR Policy 2026 — a five-year (2026–2031) state industrial framework targeting 2 lakh jobs, 200+ start...
Cyber fraud on the rise but nodal agency CERT-In grappling with acute staff crunch—House panel report
A parliamentary standing committee report on MeitY's functioning found that CERT-In (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team) — India's nodal agency for cybe...
CCI issues guidance note advising enterprises to conduct self-audits on AI tools to avoid competition risks
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has issued a guidance note urging enterprises to conduct self-audits of their AI tools to identify and address hidd...
Parliamentary panel flags digital infrastructure, cyber capacity gaps in MeitY spending review
A parliamentary standing committee reviewing MeitY's (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) budget and expenditure flagged critical shortfalls ...
NavIC satellite loses its atomic clock: What this means for India’s bid for its own GPS
The last functioning atomic clock aboard the IRNSS-1F satellite failed on March 13, 2026 — just three days after the satellite completed its 10-year design l...
Europe takes first step to banning AI-generated child sexual abuse images
European Union member states reached a common position in mid-March 2026 to formally ban AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and non-consensual i...
Trump administration set to receive $10 billion fee for brokering TikTok deal: Report
The Trump administration is set to receive approximately $10 billion as a brokering fee from the TikTok ownership restructuring deal, according to a report c...
AI fakes about Iran-U.S. war swirl on X despite policy crackdown
Amid the ongoing Iran-US military conflict, AI-generated fake images and videos are circulating massively on X (formerly Twitter), depicting fabricated event...
We study pandemics, and the resurgence of measles is a grim sign of what’s coming
The United States has recorded over 1,362 confirmed measles cases as of mid-March 2026 — on track to exceed 2025's record of 2,283 cases, which itself was th...
Nvidia to focus on competition-beating AI advances at megaconference
Nvidia's annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2026 opened on March 16 at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, with CEO Jensen Huang delivering the keyno...
Ice patches on melting glaciers greater threat than thought: ISRO scientists
Researchers from ISRO have published a peer-reviewed study in the journal *npj Natural Hazards* establishing that the August 2025 flash flood at Dharali vill...
Failure of atomic clock cripples ISRO’s NavIC system
The final atomic clock aboard IRNSS-1F, one of India's NavIC navigation satellites, stopped functioning on March 13, 2026 — three days after the satellite co...
Watch: HPV vaccination roll out, climate change, metabolic diseases and more | Health Wrap
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched India's nationwide HPV (Human Papillomavirus) Vaccination Programme on February 28, 2026, from Ajmer, Rajasthan, as par...