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• 19 September 2026 Retrieval Before Generation: How Ayush Is Wiring AI to Old Texts

  The Ministry of Ayush set out its artificial intelligence programme on 19 September 2026, spanning six chatbots on the Ayush Grid, a Retrieval-Augmented Generation use case in a WHO casebook…

• 17 September 2026 From 14 to 51: The Radars That Now Watch India's Weather

  Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated India's 51st Doppler Weather Radar at Sambalpur, Odisha, on 17 September 2026, with about 40 more planned under Mission Mausam. An NDA explainer on the Doppler …

• 15 September 2026 Four Nights at 4,500 Metres: Why India Protects the Darkness Over Hanle

  Around 40 amateur astronomers gathered at the Indian Astronomical Observatory, Hanle, for the fourth Dark Sky Reserve Star Party from 7–12 September 2026. An NDA explainer on light pollution…

• 14 September 2026 Heat That Travels Like a Wave: The Crystal That Could Mine Waste Heat

  JNCASR researchers found an unusual wave-like heat transport regime in thallium copper selenide, reaching a thermoelectric figure of merit of about 1.7. An NDA explainer on the Seebeck effec…

• 13 September 2026 Thirty-Five Days Without Rain: How a Moth Bean Held On

  Four CAZRI moth bean varieties withstood a 35-day dry spell in Kharif 2026, an El Nino year, in arid western Rajasthan. An explainer on El Nino and ENSO, pan evaporation and the soil water b…

• 12 September 2026 Free Lime and a World Record: The Chemistry Behind Steel Slag Roads

  A 1.85 km road at Raigarh, Chhattisgarh received the Guinness World Record for the longest road built with processed steel slag aggregates on 12 September 2026, with claims of 40% lower cost…

• 12 September 2026 A Badri Calf from a Sahiwal Mother: The Biology of Multiplying a Breed

  A Badri female calf was born on 11 September 2026 through Ovum Pick-Up and In Vitro Fertilization, from an embryo carried by a Sahiwal recipient cow, in an ICAR-NDRI Karnal and G.B. Pant Uni…

• 11 September 2026 Copying a Living Molecule: India Sets a New Yardstick for Biosimilars

  The Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission held a national conference on the quality and safety of biosimilars at C-CAMP, Bengaluru on 10-11 September 2026 and released an Indian Pharmacopoeia Refe…

• 10 September 2026 Crowded Orbits, Shared Rules: India at the First International Space Summit

  The Prime Minister addressed the first International Space Summit in Paris on 10 September 2026, hosted by President Macron. An explainer on why orbital crowding and debris now need governan…

• 9 September 2026 Sagar Manthan Takes the Water: India Builds Its Own Ocean Research Ship

  ORV Sagar Manthan was launched at Kolkata on 9 September 2026 — India's first advanced ocean research vessel built at home, by GRSE for NCPOR under the Deep Ocean Mission. An explainer on th…

• 9 September 2026 From Adopter to Standard-Setter: India Signs the 6G Call to Action

  India endorsed the Call to Action for 6G Leadership and Security on 9 September 2026, joining about two dozen governments. An explainer on what 6G is, the ITU's IMT-2030 framework, the Bhara…

• 5 September 2026 Coal Into Gas: The ₹37,500 Crore Gasification Bet

  The Ministry of Coal confirmed on 5 September 2026 that Talcher Fertilisers and NTPC have applied under the ₹37,500 crore surface gasification scheme, while Coal India reported 322.90 MT sup…

• 4 September 2026 Watching from 36,000 km: GSLV-F17 and the Case for Geo-Imaging

  GSLV-F17 placed EOS-05, described as India's first imaging satellite from geosynchronous orbit, on 4 September 2026. An explainer on why imaging from GEO differs from LEO, the GSLV's three s…

• 3 September 2026 Plugging In at the Berth: India's Green Shipping Corridors

  The Ports Minister reviewed green shipping corridors, green fuel bunkering hubs and shore power at TERI on 3 September 2026. An explainer on why ships are hard to decarbonise, what bunkering…

• 31 August 2026 Machines That Sense and Respond: India's Cyber-Physical Systems Mission

  A PIB backgrounder of 31 August 2026 sets out India's Cyber-Physical Systems ecosystem under NM-ICPS, approved in 2018 with a ₹3,660 crore outlay. An NDA explainer on CPS, Technology Innovat…

• 31 August 2026 Q-VIKRAM and Q-AMOGH: C-DOT's Answer to the Quantum Threat

  C-DOT unveiled 14 indigenous quantum products on 31 August 2026 covering Quantum Key Distribution and Post-Quantum Cryptography. An NDA explainer on QKD versus PQC, the harvest-now-decrypt-l…

• 25 August 2026 NJ-05, NJ-50, NJ-100: India Builds the Small Engines Its Drones Have Been Importing

  CSIR-NAL unveiled three indigenous micro and small gas turbine engines on 25 August 2026 for UAVs, drone interceptors and compact missiles. An NDA explainer on the Brayton cycle, turbojet ve…

• 23 August 2026 National Space Day: Shiv Shakti Point, Three Years On

  India marked its third National Space Day on 23 August 2026, three years after Chandrayaan-3 landed at Shiv Shakti Point. An NDA explainer on the mission profile, why the lunar south pole ma…

• 20 August 2026 AIKosh and the Case for Sovereign AI: India's Datasets Problem

  The IndiaAI Mission held a workshop on AIKosh, the national datasets and models platform, on 20 August 2026 at New Delhi. An NDA explainer on sovereign AI, data interoperability, the IndiaAI…

• 16 August 2026 CYBER KUSHTI 2026: A Hackathon That Scores Judgment, Not Detection Speed

  On 16 August 2026 NIELIT announced CYBER KUSHTI 2026, a national cybersecurity and AI hackathon in which teams must reject false findings as well as find real ones. An NDA explainer on the f…