Defence
Agalega Islands: India-Mauritius Base & Indian Ocean Strategy
Why in news? Mauritius and India recently opened a 3‑km airstrip and deep‑sea jetty on the remote Agalega Islands. The infrastructure, built by In...
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Why in news? Mauritius and India recently opened a 3‑km airstrip and deep‑sea jetty on the remote Agalega Islands. The infrastructure, built by In...
Why in news? A group of botanists from the University of Calcutta, the University of Kashmir and the Sikkim government discovered a new flowering plan...
Why in news? In early May 2026 the Uttarakhand forest department started a scientific census of the Binsar Wildlife Sanctuary. More than 100 camera tr...
Why in news? On 12 May 2026 the Ministry of Mines, in collaboration with the Government of Jammu & Kashmir, launched the second tranche of auctions fo...
Why in news? The death of 37‑year‑old Indian technology professional Chiranjeevi Kolla on 5 May 2026 in California drew attention to Valley Fever,...
Why in news? Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda and Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan jointly launched the SEHAT Mission (“Science Exce...
Why in news? During the Bio‑energy and Bio‑fertiliser Business (BBB) Summit held in May 2026, the Indian Biogas Association released a white paper...
Why in news? The Ministry of Textiles announced on 11 May 2026 that the National Jute Board has been instrumental in deploying the Jute Crop Informati...
Why in news? On 11 May 2026 the Chief Justice of India, Surya Kant, announced a digital platform called “One Case One Data” to integrate case info...
Why in news? The Ministry of Agriculture recently highlighted the achievements of the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture in a background pap...
Why in news? On 11 May 2026 a wild gaur (Indian bison) that had roamed through inhabited areas of Kannur district in Kerala was tranquillised and relo...
Why in news? Karnataka’s renowned Kukke Subrahmanya Temple announced that it earned about ₹167.89 crore in the financial year 2025–26. According...
