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Kufri Jamunia: India’s Biofortified Purple Potato
Kufri Jamunia is a biofortified potato variety developed by the ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute (ICAR-CPRI) in Shimla and officially released in 2024. It has dark purple skin and...
India Amends Vehicle Rules for E85 and E100 Flex-Fuel Vehicles
On 23 October 2026, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) amended the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989. The amendments were published in the Official Gazette on...
HCLTech and Rapidus Open Semiconductor Centres in Karnataka
On 26 October 2026, Indian IT services company HCLTech and Japan’s Rapidus Corporation inaugurated dedicated semiconductor engineering development centres in Bengaluru and Hubli, Karnataka. The centres will support...
INOX India Opens Semiconductor Training Centre in Vadodara
INOX India and its partners inaugurated the SemiOrbit Skill Excellence Centre on 26 October 2026 at the Paldi campus of ITM SLS Baroda University in Vadodara, Gujarat. The...
MAHE Opens BSL-3 Facility for Infectious-Disease Research
Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) inaugurated and began operating a Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) facility on October 26, 2026, at Manipal, a suburb of Udupi in coastal...
Ancient Solar Eclipse Record Refines Earth’s Rotation Estimates
A total solar eclipse observed on 17 July 709 BCE at the court of the Lu Duchy in ancient China has provided new constraints on Earth’s historical rotation....
Astronomers Detect Magnetic Threads Above the Sun
Astronomers detected fine, thread-like magnetic structures in the chromosphere above a quiet region of the Sun using the Sunrise-III solar observatory. The findings were published in The Astrophysical...
ISRO Plans Four Functional Launch Pads by 2029
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to have four functional space launch pads by 2029. ISRO Chairman V. Narayanan announced the plan on 25 October 2026. The...
NIFTEM-K Hosts India’s First AI-Food Technology Hackathon
The National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, Kundli (NIFTEM-K), hosted “Hack the Fork”, described as India’s first Artificial Intelligence (AI) and food technology hackathon. The 24-hour...
C-DOT Opens Sixth Centre of Excellence at IIT (BHU)
The Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) established its sixth Centre of Excellence (CoE) at the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, on 23 October 2026. C-DOT and...
Black Hole Spin and X-ray Variability
A study published in the Journal of High Energy Astrophysics on 23 October 2026 examined how black hole spin affects X-ray variability. Researchers from the Aryabhata Research Institute...
