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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...
Why in news? Environmentalists and local authorities renewed efforts in March 2026 to restore Deepor Beel, the only Ramsar wetland in Assam, following...
Why in news? On National Maritime Day 2026 the chairman of Deendayal Port Authority announced that the port handled a record 160.11 million tonnes of ...
Why in news? The Musi Riverfront Development Corporation has been working to rejuvenate the Musi river in Hyderabad. In March 2026 the corporation rel...
Why in news? During “Operation White Hammer” on 11–12 March 2026, India’s Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) raided a clandestine facil...
Why in news? On 12 March 2026, the Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways chaired a meeting of the National Shipping Board (NSB) in New Delhi...
Why in news? A recent expedition by Latin American researchers caught the world’s attention when they measured a high‑altitude crater lake on Neva...
Why in news? NASA announced that Van Allen Probe A, one of two identical spacecraft launched in 2012 to study Earth’s radiation belts, re‑entered ...
Why in news? Environmental groups released a report in March 2026 accusing the world’s largest cobalt producer of causing severe pollution and human...
Why in news? A study by the University of Sheffield, published in March 2026, revealed that spotted hyenas in the Ethiopian city of Mekelle consume to...
Why in news? On 22 January 2026, tribal artist J. Krishnan from Velaricombai village in the Nilgiris was posthumously awarded the Padma Shri for his d...
