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Exercise Sea Dragon 2026
Why in news? The Indian Navy is taking part in Exercise Sea Dragon 2026, an anti‑submarine warfare drill hosted by the U.S. Navy at Andersen Air For...
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Why in news? The Indian Navy is taking part in Exercise Sea Dragon 2026, an anti‑submarine warfare drill hosted by the U.S. Navy at Andersen Air For...
Why in news? The National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) successfully tested an indigenously developed floating LiDAR buoy off the coast of Mutt...
Why in news? The Department of Posts launched “24 Speed Post”, a next‑day delivery service (D+1) for urgent consignments in selected metro city ...
Why in news? India rejected the 2026 annual report of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, saying it presented a biased and selecti...
Why in news? A study led by scientists at the U.S. National Institutes of Health found that cholesterol accumulated in the nuclear envelope of cancer ...
Why in news? A recent survey of the Hindon River in western Uttar Pradesh reported zero dissolved oxygen at several sites, indicating that the water i...
Why in news? Geologists from the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology have reconstructed the history of the Ladakh Magmatic Arc (LMA), a belt of igneo...
Why in news? The Geological Survey of India (GSI) announced that the hill region around Kalinjar Fort in Banda district, Uttar Pradesh, has been desig...
Why in news? Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati have developed a material based on MXene that can generate hydrogen effi...
Why in news? On 16 March 2026, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced that it had used Sejjil missiles during retaliatory strikes agains...
Why in news? A biotechnology company, PRG S&T, recently signed a licensing agreement with Sentynl Therapeutics (a Zydus Group company) to develop and ...
Why in news? Scientists from Tamralipta Mahavidyalaya and Vidyasagar University have described a new species of estuarine fish from the Rupnarayan Riv...
Why in news? Researchers from the group Kotha Telangana Charitra Brundam (KTCB) and Climate Front Telangana recently discovered two ancient rock carvi...
Why in news? Recent disruptions in global trade and energy supplies, including the temporary declaration of force majeure on some Gulf oil shipments a...
Why in news? The Sahitya Akademi announced its 2024 literary awards on 18 December 2024. The awards recognise outstanding books published in various I...
Why in news? Authorities have launched a plan to relocate Asiatic wild water buffaloes from the Kaziranga National Park in Assam to the Kanha Tiger Re...
Why in news? Outbreaks of foot and mouth disease in parts of Europe in early 2026 and ongoing vaccination campaigns in India have drawn attention to t...
Why in news? On 27 February 2026, India submitted its first National Report on the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biologic...
Why in news? Scientists from the Zoological Survey of India and MES Mampad College have reported the first cases of gynandromorphy in the freshwater c...
Why in news? Scientists have reported the discovery of a new earthworm species called Drawida vazhania from the Vazhani Dam area in the Peechi‑Vazha...