Karnataka approved the phased rollout of SAMASTA, an integrated community digital health platform for digitising health records and replacing manual paper-based record-keeping. The platform is linked with the...
Dr. Rohan Naidu, a Hyderabad-born astronomer and assistant professor at the University of Hawaii, led a study published in Nature on 12 August 2026 on a candidate object...
Jinnah-1 is Pakistan’s first-ever lunar rover and has been named by the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO). The rover is planned for launch in 2029 aboard...
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru released SraVaani on 13 August 2026 as an open-source multilingual speech-recognition model. The model was developed by the SPIRE Lab...
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) announced on 13 August 2026 that it won a mega order valued between ₹10,000 crore and ₹15,000 crore for an artificial intelligence infrastructure facility...
IIT Guwahati has developed a two-stage microalgae cultivation process for carbon dioxide capture, biomass production, and bioenergy generation. The work was led by Professor Kaustubha Mohanty of the...
The Perseid meteor shower is an annual meteor display associated with debris from Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, and it is visible mainly in the Northern Hemisphere. In 2026, the shower...
The 8th Meeting of the BRICS Working Group on Ocean and Polar Science and Technology (OPST) began in Goa on 12 August 2026 and is scheduled to continue...
Scientists at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT), Hyderabad, developed a plant-based phytopharmaceutical drug candidate for diabetic foot ulcers on 12 August 2026. The candidate uses Gymnema...
Indian Railways approved the deployment of Kavach Version 4.0 across 660 route kilometres of the Izzatnagar Division of the North Eastern Railway on 12 August 2026. The sanctioned...
India has set a target of 100 GWe of nuclear energy capacity by 2047 under the Nuclear Energy Mission. The roadmap combines large indigenous Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors...
The Digital India BHASHINI Division and NITI Aayog signed a Statement of Intent in New Delhi on 12 August 2026 to advance multilingual, voice-first artificial intelligence for public...
