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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? 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? 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? Laboratory experiments simulating the conditions on Saturn’s moon Titan have shown that acrylonitrile, a molecule present in Titan’s ...
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? Archaeologists working at the ancient Egyptian town of El Ashmunein (Hermopolis Magna) unearthed a large limestone fragment that fits wit...
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? The Musi Riverfront Development Corporation has been working to rejuvenate the Musi river in Hyderabad. In March 2026 the corporation rel...
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? Environmentalists and local authorities renewed efforts in March 2026 to restore Deepor Beel, the only Ramsar wetland in Assam, following...
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? On 12 March 2026, the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) dispatched 25 tonnes of GI‑tagged J...
