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Why in news? The Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change announced that two new chicks of the Great Indian Bustard have hatched at th...
Why in news? The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research – National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR‑NCL) has announced that it is ready to scale u...
Why in news? Botanists from the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) have rediscovered Henckelia monophylla, a rare flowering plant, in the forests of Arun...
Why in news? Archaeologists working at the ancient Egyptian town of El Ashmunein (Hermopolis Magna) unearthed a large limestone fragment that fits wit...
Why in news? On 12 March 2026 a U.S. Air Force KC‑135 Stratotanker aircraft crashed in western Iraq during Operation Epic Fury. All six crew members...
Why in news? Laboratory experiments simulating the conditions on Saturn’s moon Titan have shown that acrylonitrile, a molecule present in Titan’s ...
Why in news? Researchers have discovered a new species of catfish, Amblyceps vayavy, in the hill streams of Goa and Maharashtra in the northern Wester...
Why in news? An ancient Telugu inscription linked to the 15th‑century Gajapati kings was found on a stone pillar in the Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temp...
Why in news? Scientists from the SETI Institute have identified a rare iron sulphate, ferric hydroxysulphate, in layered deposits near Mars’s vast V...
Why in news? The Union Cabinet’s approval of Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0 introduced a comprehensive digital framework called Sujalam Bharat to monitor ru...
Why in news? On 13 March 2026 the Supreme Court of India took suo motu cognisance of rampant illegal sand mining in the National Chambal Sanctuary and...
Why in news? On 14 March 2026 the Union Minister of Communications, Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, inaugurated the first Samriddhi Kendra in Umri village, G...
Why in news? Scientists from the National Pusa Collection at the ICAR‑Indian Agricultural Research Institute have discovered two new species of micr...
Why in news? A team from Gauhati University discovered a new shrub species in the grasslands of Assam’s Manas National Park. They named it Osbeckia ...
Why in news? In March 2026, U.S. forces carried out air strikes on military targets on Iran’s Kharg Island. While the oil terminal remained intact, ...
Why in news? Scientists exploring limestone caves in the Andaman Islands identified specimens of a slender insect as Myiophanes kempi, a species of th...
Why in news? After decades of debate, a March 2026 study definitively confirmed that the Silverpit structure beneath the North Sea is a hypervelocity ...
Why in news? An outbreak of the Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) at the Jalpaiguri Central Correctional Home in West Bengal infected 92 inmates between Augu...
Why in news? On 12 March 2026, the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) dispatched 25 tonnes of GI‑tagged J...
Why in news? India sent a consignment of life‑saving medicines to the Shree Hindu Mandal Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in March 2026 as human...
