Indian Maritime University convocation: 1,993 graduate in Chennai, including 1,605 seafarers
Indian Maritime University held its 11th convocation in Chennai on 15 October, awarding degrees to 1,993 students including 1,605 seafarers and 4 PhD scholars.
Jaswant Pashu Mela opens in Bharatpur: 107th edition of the 1920 fair already earns over Rs 1.17 crore
Jaswant Pashu Mela, Bharatpur's 107th exhibition and cattle fair, opens with a flag hoisting. Income has crossed Rs 1.17 crore against Rs…
Rajasthan Police starts ‘Positive Behaviour in Policing’ training to change how stations treat people
Rajasthan Police starts a three-day 'Positive Behaviour in Policing' course at IIHMR University, Jaipur, where DGP Rajeev Kumar Sharma urged empathy.
COP17 biodiversity report: fewer than half of national nature targets on track, Guterres warns
COP17 biodiversity report: fewer than half of national nature targets are on track, and only 26% of land would be protected by…
UN report on neurotechnology warns brain data from gadgets could be used against people in court
Neurotechnology is outpacing human rights laws, a UN report warns, as brain data from gaming or wellness headsets could end up as…
Artemis II heat shield: NASA finds just 9 char-loss spots against 103 on Artemis I
Artemis II heat shield worked as expected, NASA's analysis finds, with only nine spots of char loss compared with 103 on Artemis…
El Nino 2026: NASA satellites track what may be the strongest El Nino since 1950
El Nino 2026 could be the strongest since 1950, with NOAA giving an 83% chance. NASA satellites show a hotter, higher and…
Hurricane Isaias: NASA night images show lights going out across Florida Panhandle, then returning
Hurricane Isaias knocked out power along the Florida Panhandle, NASA night-light images show. Lights faded in Pensacola and Destin and recovered by…
Combined Task Force 154: Indian Navy ends its first CMF command in Bahrain after 7,800 training hours
Combined Task Force 154: the Indian Navy handed over command in Manama on 14 October after an eight-month tenure with 7,800+ training…
Greater Than Us: Rajnath Singh launches IIT Kanpur’s $1 billion campaign with Rs 4,155 crore committed
Greater Than Us, IIT Kanpur's US$1 billion fundraising campaign, was launched by Rajnath Singh in New Delhi with Rs 4,155 crore already…
Chambal Gharial Sanctuary: Rajasthan orders check posts, GPS curbs to stop illegal gravel mining
Chambal Gharial Sanctuary: ACS Anand Kumar orders patrols, mobile check posts, CCTV and GPS on heavy vehicles in Kota and Bundi to…
Anil Menon spacewalk: NASA to preview the last two ISS solar array installs on 20 October
Anil Menon spacewalk: NASA will brief on US spacewalks 100 and 101 on 20 October, when Menon and Joshua Kutryk fit the…
Artemis III update: NASA to brief on its Moon timeline and next year’s test flight on 23 October
Artemis III update: NASA will brief on 23 October on its plan to fly four astronauts in low Earth orbit next year…
NASA Moon battery: solid-state SPEARS cells built to survive the lunar South Pole cold
NASA Moon battery: SPEARS solid-state cells worked down to minus 80 C in tests and survived 100 C to minus 170 C,…
Treble Clef in space: NASA’s Chandra finds a black hole outburst and cluster crash behind the shape
Treble Clef radio shape explained: NASA's Chandra and eROSITA show a black hole outburst and a galaxy cluster collision created the musical-looking…
Hurricane Simon weakens to 75 mph off Mexico as Baja California Sur told to stay alert
Hurricane Simon weakens to 75 mph off Mexico's Pacific coast; NHC says Baja California Sur should monitor it, days after it passed…
INS Samarthak to be commissioned at Karwar on 16 October as Navy’s first multi-purpose vessel
INS Samarthak, the first of four L&T-built multi-purpose vessels, will be commissioned at Naval Base Karwar on 16 October. Roles, crest and…
India Czech defence cooperation to expand as Rajnath Singh meets Czech deputy PM Karel Havlicek
India Czech defence cooperation: Rajnath Singh and Czech First Deputy PM Karel Havlicek agree to grow joint ventures under the Joint Defence…
ESTIC 2026: DRDO to lead semiconductor and next-gen chips session at Bharat Mandapam
ESTIC 2026 runs 27-29 October at Bharat Mandapam. DRDO will lead a session on semiconductors and next-gen chips with Micron India, Bharat…
Himalayan ecosystem is a national responsibility, says Jitendra Singh at Srinagar mountain summit
Himalayan ecosystem: Jitendra Singh says every citizen has a stake, cites glacier monitoring and 50 weather radars at the mountain summit in…
66th NDC course meets President Murmu: decision making cannot be outsourced to AI, she says
66th NDC course at Rashtrapati Bhavan: President Murmu says security now spans cyber and space, and that decisions cannot be outsourced to…
V Srinivas IIAS role takes Rajasthan Chief Secretary to Athens for global governance conference
V Srinivas IIAS president and Rajasthan Chief Secretary meets India's envoy in Athens during the IASIA 2026 conference and previews a governance…
Disaster housing losses hit $228 billion a year, UN says on Disaster Risk Reduction Day
Disaster housing losses reach $228 billion a year, the UN says on Disaster Risk Reduction Day. Homes make up 43% of direct…
CRS-35 launch: SpaceX Dragon carries final ISS solar arrays and 6,300 pounds of cargo
CRS-35 launched on 13 October with 6,300 pounds of cargo and the final ISS roll-out solar arrays. Dragon docks on 15 October.…
Christina Koch named NASA acting deputy chief engineer, ends her spaceflight career
Christina Koch becomes NASA's acting deputy chief engineer from 1 November and will no longer fly. The Artemis II astronaut and ISS…
Griffin-1 Moon lander clears shake, roar and vacuum tests at NASA JPL ahead of launch
Griffin-1, Voyager Technologies' Moon lander, passed vibration, 153-decibel acoustic and thermal vacuum tests at NASA JPL ahead of a Falcon Heavy launch.
Sentinel-3C sends first images of Italy and Greenland two weeks after launch
Sentinel-3C, the new Copernicus satellite, sends its first images of Italy, the Arctic and the Caribbean plus Greenland ice height data two…
Farthest fast radio burst traced to a tiny dwarf galaxy by Webb, hinting at a magnetar origin
Farthest fast radio burst, FRB 20240304B, traced by NASA's Webb to a small star-forming dwarf galaxy 3 billion years after the big…
INS Mangrol commissioned: Navy gets third indigenous anti-submarine shallow water craft
INS Mangrol, the Navy's third Mahe-class anti-submarine shallow water craft, built by Cochin Shipyard with over 80% local content, is commissioned in…
Bharat Rice launched for Army troops as FCI pact strengthens military supply chain
Bharat Rice for the armed forces: quality rice goes straight to Army depots in Ladakh and the North East, and an MoU…
IBSAMAR IX 2026: INS Tarkash joins Brazil and South Africa navies for drills
IBSAMAR IX 2026: INS Tarkash joins the India-Brazil-South Africa naval exercise off South Africa, with warships, a submarine and helicopters in the…
Tarang Shakti 2026: IAF chief calls for integrated air power at CAPSS seminar
Tarang Shakti 2026: at a CAPSS-IAF seminar, Air Chief Marshal AP Singh calls for integrated manned and unmanned operations and resilient supply…
Rajasthan women constables: 828 recruits pass out at Kishangarh and Silora parades
Rajasthan women constables: 828 recruits finish nine months of training at RPTC Kishangarh and PTS Silora, with DG Malini Agarwal as parade…
UNHCR funding cuts: Barham Salih warns refugee protection is buckling
UNHCR funding cuts: Barham Salih says the agency has $3bn of the $8.5bn it needs as 117 million are displaced, and 8,000…
Sudan famine risk grows in Darfur and Kordofan as drought deepens war crisis
Sudan famine risk is rising in Darfur and Kordofan, the IPC warns, with child malnutrition at 38% in two Jebel Marra camps…
Perseverance driving record: NASA rover beats Opportunity with 28.10 miles on Mars
Perseverance driving record: NASA's Mars rover hit 28.10 miles on 11 October, beating Opportunity's 28.06 miles in 5.5 years instead of almost…
Sophie Adenot back in Europe after record 237-day ISS mission
Sophie Adenot is back in Europe after 237 days on the ISS, a European record for the longest single spaceflight. She landed…
NGC 1275 black hole flared in X-rays, then fired radio jets about 300 days later
NGC 1275 black hole: NASA Swift data show the Perseus Cluster giant flared in X-rays, then fired radio jets about 300 days…
Exercise INDRA 2026: INS Sahyadri reaches Vladivostok for India-Russia naval drills
Exercise INDRA 2026: Indian Navy frigate INS Sahyadri arrives at Vladivostok for the India-Russia bilateral naval exercise scheduled from 13 to 18…
Exercise KONKAN 2026: INS Trishul joins Royal Navy drills off Plymouth
Exercise KONKAN 2026: stealth frigate INS Trishul is at Plymouth for the India-UK naval exercise from 8 to 15 October, with harbour…
Poppy straw seizure: CBN recovers over 4.2 tonnes in two raids near Rajasthan-MP border
Poppy straw seizure: the Central Bureau of Narcotics seized 4,209.80 kg in two operations on the Udaipur-Chittorgarh highway and in Mandsaur; three…
Riyadh airport attack: toll rises to 13 as new projectile hits Terminal 4
Riyadh airport attack: toll from Saturday's Houthi strike rises to 13 after an Indian national died; a new projectile hit Terminal 4…
Djibouti shipwreck: death toll rises to 139 with 84 still missing, says IOM
Djibouti shipwreck: IOM says at least 139 migrants, including 15 children, died when a boat carrying 305 people capsized near Guehere; 84…
Sudan Blue Nile drone strike kills at least 40, mostly women and girls
Sudan Blue Nile drone strike: the UN says at least 40 people, mostly women and girls, were killed near the Ethiopian border;…
Mekong Delta saltwater farming: Vietnam’s rice bowl learns to live with the sea
Mekong Delta saltwater farming: UN University researchers study how Vietnamese farmers adapt to sea-level rise, dams and El Niño that threaten rice…
Cote d’Ivoire dam eases herder-farmer clashes in Torla village
Cote d'Ivoire dam: a rehabilitated agropastoral dam in Torla, backed by IOM and the UN Peacebuilding Fund, is reducing dry-season clashes between…
Air India Riyadh flights suspended until 10 October after airport attacks
Editor's note: This is a fresh development in a story covered earlier. Air India Riyadh flights are suspended until 10 October. Air…
Monsoon withdrawal extends to Maharashtra, Telangana and Odisha, says IMD
The monsoon withdrawal has extended further south and east, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. Its 8 October press release said the…
IceCube pioneer Francis Halzen wins the 2026 physics Nobel Prize
Belgian-born physicist Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin–Madison has won the 2026 physics Nobel Prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences…
Trump ends taxpayer-funded TV ads featuring him after criticism
US President Donald Trump said on Monday, 5 October 2026, that he will stop using public money for taxpayer-funded TV ads featuring…
New York declares measles disaster emergency as US cases climb
New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a measles disaster emergency on Monday, 5 October 2026, temporarily expanding the ability of health professionals…
Optogenetics pioneers win the 2026 Nobel Prize in medicine
American scientist Karl Deisseroth and German researchers Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday, 5…
Google topped a tech and AI trend list on 4 October
Google was first on a tech and artificial-intelligence trend list for Sunday, 4 October 2026, according to a page at trending.fru.dev that…
Drishyam 3 box office: Ajay Devgn film nets ₹66.75 crore on opening day
Drishyam 3 collected ₹66.75 crore net in India on day one, with a worldwide gross of about ₹95.10 crore, Sacnilk figures show.
India oil imports from the Gulf rise as Russian crude eases in September
India’s Russian crude imports fell almost 9 percent in September, while supplies from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar rose.
Supreme Court tightens services for motorists with unpaid traffic fines
The Supreme Court has directed states to block licence renewal, registration and transfers where traffic e-challans remain unpaid.
Asian Games final day brings archery, wrestling and golf medal chances
Saturday is Asian Games final day for India, with medal matches in archery and wrestling and the last round of the golf.
India Malaysia hockey final in Gifu carries gold and an LA 2028 place
India meet Malaysia in the men’s hockey final at Gifu on Saturday. The winner gets gold and a Los Angeles 2028 quota.
India Pakistan cricket final in Nisshin will decide Asian Games gold
India and Pakistan play the Asian Games men’s cricket final in Nisshin on Saturday, with gold shared if the match cannot be…
IMD says monsoon withdrawal will push further across north and central India
The IMD expects the southwest monsoon to withdraw further from north and central India on 3 October, while rain persists in the…