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Optical fibre Intrusion Detection System for elephants
Why in news? The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) announced in late October 2025 that it is expanding its optical fibre‑based Intrusion Detection Sy...
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Why in news? The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) announced in late October 2025 that it is expanding its optical fibre‑based Intrusion Detection Sy...
Why in news? South Korea’s defence minister announced in October 2025 that the country had begun mass‑producing the Hyunmoo‑5 ballistic missile ...
Why in news? Conservationists reported in October 2025 that around 190 blackbucks now roam Chhattisgarh’s Barnawapara Wildlife Sanctuary – a remar...
Why in news? State Councils of Educational Research and Training released application forms in October 2025 for the National Means‑cum‑Merit Schol...
Why in news? Prime Minister Narendra Modi informed Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim that he would join the 47th Association of Southeast Asian...
Why in news? The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has launched the Skilling for AI Readiness (SOAR) programme. Announced during the ...
Why in news? President Droupadi Murmu made a historic pilgrimage to the Sabarimala Sree Dharma Sastha Temple on 22 October 2025. She became the first ...
Why in news? Birdwatchers near Karnataka’s Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary recently recorded the first‑ever sighting of an Indian Scops‑Owl in the a...
Why in news? Two years after scientists released the parasitic wasp Anagyrus lopezi into tapioca fields of South India, farmers report that the once�...
Why in news? Researchers analysing two decades of seismic data beneath Mount Etna have found that changes in the ratio of small earthquakes to larger ...
Why in news? The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Fiji has become the 26th country to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem. The...
Why in news? At a recent meeting in Uzbekistan, range states endorsed a new six‑year Programme of Work for the Central Asian Mammals Initiative. The...
Why in news? Foresters at the Kali Tiger Reserve in Karnataka recently sighted and photographed a striped hyena in the park’s safari zone. The anima...
Why in news? The Manipur Fisheries Department organised its annual Fish Fair and Fish Crop Competition on the eve of the Ningol Chakouba festival, ens...
Why in news? During the ongoing conflict in Eastern Europe, Ukraine reportedly used UK‑supplied Storm Shadow cruise missiles to strike a Russian che...
Why in news? The World Trade Organization (WTO) recently praised India's liberalised Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) programme for boosting the par...
Why in news? Residents and wildlife enthusiasts have raised alarm over the dwindling population of spotted deer in the Konark-Balukhand Wildlife Sanct...
Why in news? Researchers conducting a pilot study in Europe found that ground beetles from the family Carabidae can act as natural "bio-indicators" of...
Why in news? A local naturalist recently reported sighting a rare Malabar gliding frog near Hirebagewadi in Karnataka's Belagavi district. Such sighti...
Why in news? Scientists in the United States recently reported promising results from a Phase 1 trial of a new malaria-preventing antibody known as MA...