Neurosurgeon Ashok Kumar Mahapatra Dies at 74
Eminent neurosurgeon and Padma Shri awardee Ashok Kumar Mahapatra died aged 74 on November 2, 2026, while undergoing treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)...
Five Singareni Mines Win National Five-Star Rating Awards
Five mines of Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) received the Ministry of Coal’s Five-Star Rating Awards for 2024–25 at a ceremony in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, on 2 November 2026....
Bihar Becomes First State to Introduce Silt Management Policy
On 3 November 2026, Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary announced that Bihar had become the first Indian state to introduce a comprehensive silt management policy. The state government...
Prasar Bharati Wins Two Honours at ABU Prizes 2026
Prasar Bharati received two honours at the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) Prizes 2026, held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from October 30 to November 3. Two recognitions for Prasar...
India Signs ₹53,866.50-Crore Contracts for Eight Navy Corvettes
On 2 November 2026, the Ministry of Defence signed contracts worth ₹53,866.50 crore with Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) and Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) to build eight...
C.K. Kokate, Pharmacy Scientist, Dies at 79
Professor Chandrakant Kishanrao Kokate, a pharmaceutical scientist and academician known for his work on irrational fixed-dose combinations, died on 2 November 2026, aged 79. He was the first...
MeitY Launches Handbook for Safe Data Sharing in AI Training
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) launched the Handbook on Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA) for AI Training on 31 October 2026. MeitY Secretary S....
TRAI Issues Third Interconnection Amendment Regulations
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) released the Telecommunication Interconnection (Third Amendment) Regulations, 2026, on November 3, 2026. They will come into effect on January 1, 2027....
Aditya-L1 Detects Asymmetric Expansion of Solar Eruption
Scientists at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru, published a study in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on 3 November 2026 describing the asymmetric expansion of a solar...
Cyclone Murasu: First Tropical Cyclone with a Tamil Name
Severe Cyclonic Storm Murasu, the first tropical cyclone to receive a Tamil name since North Indian Ocean naming began in September 2004, made landfall near Ongole, Andhra Pradesh,...
Vultr Launches 20-MW AI Supercluster in Chennai
U.S.-based cloud infrastructure provider Vultr launched a 20-megawatt (MW) artificial intelligence supercluster in Chennai on 2 November 2026. The facility, powered by AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs, is expected...
