On August 13, 2024, the 6th India-Australia Maritime Security Dialogue was held in Canberra, focusing on strengthening maritime security cooperation in the Indian Ocean Region. This meeting reflects...
The Maharashtra government has officially designated the geoglyphs and petroglyphs in Ratnagiri as protected monuments under the Maharashtra Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1960. This...
Entomologists from the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) in Bengaluru have recently identified three new species of edible bugs that are traditionally eaten...
On August 13, 2024, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) of India successfully carried out the first flight test of a long-range glide bomb named Gaurav. This...
India and Russia are working on introducing a “dynamic reference rate” for their currencies, the Indian Rupee (INR) and the Russian Rouble (RUB), to make financial transactions between...
The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission, a joint project between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), has encountered delays, pushing its launch to after February...
On August 12, 2024, India’s Union Minister of Education, Dharmendra Pradhan, shared the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings for the year 2024. In these rankings, the Indian...
The Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) has gained notable recognition in the 2024 National Board of Accreditation (NBA) and National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings. It has...
Vinay Mohan Kwatra has been appointed the Indian Ambassador to the United States, starting his role on August 12, 2024, and succeeding Taranjit Singh Sandhu. This move is...
The Neelakurinji (Strobilanthes kunthiana) has been classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. This classification marks the first global assessment of the species, highlighting...
