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Kerala Chief Minister Appointment

On 14 May 2026, V.D. Satheesan was officially appointed as the Chief Minister-designate of Kerala, following a decisive electoral victory by the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) in...

 May 14, 2026

Religious Symbols in Education

The Karnataka government formally withdrew its February 2022 order that banned the hijab and other religious vestments in state-aided, government, and private schools and pre-university colleges on 13...

 May 14, 2026

Census Enumeration Verification Technology

The Office of the Registrar General and Census Operations implemented a Quick Response (QR) code-based verification system for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) area to secure door-to-door...

 May 14, 2026

Sugar Export Policy and Domestic Supply

On 13 May 2026, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) amended the export policy for raw, white, and refined sugar from the "Restricted" category to "Prohibited" with...

 May 14, 2026

Climate Finance and Innovation

On 13 May 2026, Indian MBA graduate Sithara Rasheed was named a winner of the 2026 Stanford Impact Leader Prize. The annual award recognizes graduating students from the...

 May 14, 2026

Kallakkadal Coastal Flood Monitoring

The Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) expanded its marine surveillance network by installing a second Coastal Flood Monitoring System (CFMS) near Kollam Harbour in Kerala....

 May 14, 2026

Microbial Electrosynthesis Carbon Dioxide Methane Conversion

Scientists at Pennsylvania State University have developed a zero-gap microbial electrosynthesis reactor that converts carbon dioxide into methane with a coulombic efficiency exceeding 95 percent. Led by Bruce...

 May 14, 2026

Near-Earth Apollo Asteroid Flyby

NASA confirmed that the newly discovered near-Earth asteroid, designated 2026 JH2, safely completed an extremely close flyby of Earth on 18 May 2026. Discovered just days earlier on...

 May 14, 2026

Deep Space Communication Technologies

On 13 May 2026, the Indian Space Research Organisation Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Society for Applied Microwave Electronics...

 May 14, 2026

Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem Development

The IndiaAI Mission, functioning under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Karya on 13 May 2026 to accelerate the...

 May 14, 2026

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