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First Overseas Atal Innovation Centre
Why in news? India inaugurated its first overseas Atal Innovation Centre (AIC) at the IIT Delhi – Abu Dhabi campus during the Education Minister’s...
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Why in news? India inaugurated its first overseas Atal Innovation Centre (AIC) at the IIT Delhi – Abu Dhabi campus during the Education Minister’s...
Why in news? The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) signed its 100th technology‑transfer agreement with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) t...
Why in news? China recently tightened controls on rare earth mining and processing, reinforcing its global dominance. This development has sparked dis...
Why in news? The Indian government licensed five domestic firms to manufacture and commercialise AdFalciVax, the country’s first indigenous multi‑...
Why in news? The World Health Organization announced in mid‑2025 that mpox, also known as monkeypox, no longer constitutes a Public Health Emergency...
Why in news? On the night of 7–8 September 2025, people across India observed a total lunar eclipse known as a “blood moon”. Social media and sc...
Why in news? In September 2025 the V.O. Chidambaranar Port Authority in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu commissioned India’s first port‑based green hydrog...
Why in news? Health authorities in Kerala raised alarm over the detection of Acanthamoeba in several water bodies. The organism can cause serious infe...
Why in news? NITI Aayog’s Frontier Tech Hub, together with the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, released the fourth edition of its Future F...
Why in news? In September 2025 the Union Cabinet approved a six‑year incentive scheme worth ₹1,500 crore under the National Critical Mineral Mis...
Why in news? Physicists around the world are excited about recent experiments suggesting the existence of Majorana particles in superconducting nanowi...
Why in news? At the Semicon India conference held in Bengaluru in early September 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled Vikram 3201 — India’...
Why in news? Scientists from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), AIIMS Bhopal, NIMHANS and startup Bioscan Research recently introduced an ...
Why in news? The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) unveiled a national network of h...
Why in news? The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) announced that 2025 will be observed as the “Year of Artificial Intelligence” a...
Why in news? In‑SPACe, the government body promoting India’s space sector, facilitated the transfer of five technologies developed by the Indian S...
Why in news? Astronomers announced the discovery of a rare quadruple star system named UPM J1040‑33551 AabBab, located about eighty‑two light‑ye...
Why in news? Two Indian aquanauts recently dived more than 5,000 metres in the Atlantic Ocean aboard a French submersible as part of training for Indi...
Why in news? The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying updated its action plan for managing glanders, a contagious equine disease, with new zone...
Why in news? India launched its first National Biofoundry Network under the BioE3 initiative to accelerate biomanufacturing and synthetic biology rese...