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Ebola Bundibugyo Virus Outbreak

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the escalating Ebola outbreak caused by the rare Bundibugyo virus strain in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda a...

 May 25, 2026

National Health Mission Funding West Bengal

The Government of India released ₹527.58 crore to West Bengal as the first installment of its total ₹3,505.59 crore allocation under the National Health Mission (NHM). Union Health...

 May 25, 2026

Staten Island Shipyard Explosion

A fatal fire and a sequence of two industrial explosions struck a shipyard in the Mariners Harbor neighborhood on the north shore of Staten Island, New York City,...

 May 25, 2026

Pashupatinath Temple Sandalwood Gift

India recently gifted more than 40 kilograms of premium sandalwood to the Government of Nepal for specific ritual use at the revered Pashupatinath Temple on the outskirts of...

 May 25, 2026

Lake Kariba Hydroelectricity Crisis

Lake Kariba, the world’s largest man-made reservoir by volume located on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border, is experiencing a critical hydrological turnaround. After suffering prolonged droughts and intense heatwaves since...

 May 25, 2026

India Peak Power Demand Renewable Energy

India recorded an all-time high peak power demand of 270.82 GW on May 21, 2026, driven by intense heatwave conditions that led to increased use of cooling appliances...

 May 23, 2026

Coral Cilia Ventilation Heat Stress

A study published in Science Advances reveals that rising ocean temperatures disrupt the ciliary ventilation system of reef-building corals, particularly Porites lutea. This breakdown leads to fatal oxygen...

 May 23, 2026

CPGRAMS Monthly Grievance Report

The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) released the 48th monthly report on the Centralized Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System (CPGRAMS) for Central Ministries and...

 May 23, 2026

Indian Army Q-FORCE Logistics Management

The Indian Army launched a digital application called 'Q-FORCE' on May 22, 2026, to modernise its logistics, supply chain, and sustainment management operations. Developed as an integrated enterprise...

 May 23, 2026

Unincorporated Sector Employment Growth

The National Statistics Office (NSO), under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), released its Quarterly Bulletin on Unincorporated Sector Enterprises (QBUSE) for the January–March 2026 quarter....

 May 23, 2026

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