Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station harvested the first batch of rice grown in orbit on 5 August 2026. The harvest formed part of the Shenzhou-23 mission,...
Telangana Police launched the NextGen Dial-112 Emergency Response Support System, also called the AI-enabled Telangana Emergency Response Support System (TG-ERSS), on 5 August 2026 at the Telangana Integrated...
Researchers from the Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS) identified a new seahorse species in August 2026. The species has been named Hippocampus amandavincentae after marine...
Astrophysicist Annapurni Subramaniam received the COSPAR Vikram Sarabhai Medal 2026 on 3 August 2026. She is the Director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics in Bengaluru, India. The...
Pawan Hans Limited signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with Norway-based Noemi Aerospace on 5 August 2026 in New Delhi to explore electric seaplane technology and other sustainable...
The Chhattisgarh Cabinet approved the Chhattisgarh State Artificial Intelligence (AI) Mission on 5 August 2026 with an outlay of ₹500 crore. The mission will run for five years...
Saxifraga candelabrum, an alpine flowering plant native to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Hengduan Mountains of China, has been confirmed as carnivorous in a study published in Nature...
China unveiled Xianglong, a self-developed boring and blasting machine, in Wuhan on 2 August 2026. The machine has a diameter of 4.5 metres and was developed jointly by...
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) announced India’s first indigenous African Swine Fever (ASF) vaccine for pigs on 4 August 2026. The vaccine was developed at the...
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) developed India’s first fully annotated telomere-to-telomere (T2T) reference genome of pigeonpea variety ‘Asha’. The genome assembly, designated NIPB_CcT2T_4, was released on...
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a cancer research agency of the World Health Organization (WHO), classified hydrochlorothiazide, voriconazole and tacrolimus as carcinogenic to humans in...
IIT Hyderabad and Crimson Energy Experts Pvt. Ltd. launched ANUGYAN, the Nuclear Technology Orientation Programme, on 3 August 2026. The three-month residential programme is India’s first industry-academia course...
