The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) issued 1,331 commercial pilot licences (CPLs) in India up to 30 June 2026. The data was placed before the Rajya Sabha...
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is developing a digital aviation incident reporting platform for electronic submission and processing of mandatory occurrence reports. The platform will be...
India has approved its first utility-scale 100 MWh Vanadium Redox Flow Battery Energy Storage System (VRFB BESS) for deployment at Khavda Solar Park in Gujarat. NTPC Renewable Energy...
The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur announced on 20 July 2026 that it will establish a Centre of Excellence on Green Hydrogen named the Centre of Excellence on...
IIT Tirupati hosted the fifth meeting of the BRICS Working Group on Geospatial Technologies and its Applications at its Yerpedu campus from 20 to 22 July 2026. The...
Paninian India Private Ltd. unveiled the Yantur 4.5 kN turbofan engine programme in New Delhi on 20 July 2026. The programme is linked to indigenous propulsion technology for...
India granted market authorisation to QDENGA (TAK-003) on 20 July 2026 through the Drug Controller General of India. QDENGA became India’s first approved dengue vaccine and is approved...
Debadatta Priyadarshi of Bhubaneswar, Odisha, won a gold medal at the 58th International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) 2026. The competition was held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, from 10 July to...
The Omicron RF.5 sub-variant of SARS-CoV-2 was detected in Andhra Pradesh in mid-July 2026. Genome sequencing at the National Institute of Virology, Pune, confirmed the RF.5 sub-lineage in...
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research is working on genome-editing of about 40 crop varieties across 34 research institutes in India. The initiative covers field crops and horticultural...
OpenAI appointed Indian-origin technology executive Uday Ruddaraju as Chief Technology Officer, Compute, on 19 July 2026. He joined OpenAI in July 2025 as Head of Compute and Infrastructure...
