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Archibald Prize Portrait Painting

The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney announced the Archibald Prize 2026, awarding the one hundred thousand Australian dollars accolade to Melbourne-based artist Richard Lewer. He...

 May 9, 2026

Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti Celebration

Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti 2026 was observed across India on 7 May, while in West Bengal it was celebrated as Pochishe Boishakh on 9 May. This date corresponds to...

 May 9, 2026

Air Pollution Monitoring Technology

The Delhi Pollution Control Committee and the Delhi government launched the Road Real-time Air Pollution Detection Across Roads (Road RADAR) project on 8 May 2026. This initiative deploys...

 May 9, 2026

Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme Medicine Delivery

The Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS) polyclinics in Lucknow and Raebareli launched a doorstep medicine delivery service on 8 May 2026. This service explicitly targets eligible veterans, war...

 May 9, 2026

Black Hole Merger Chains

Scientists have confirmed that some of the most massive black holes in the universe originate from repeated mergers within dense star clusters. Using data from the fourth Gravitational-Wave...

 May 9, 2026

Kerala Police Administration History

P.J. Alexander, a distinguished former Director General of Police (DGP) of Kerala, passed away on 8 May 2026 in Thiruvananthapuram at the age of 92. Commissioned into the...

 May 9, 2026

Environmental Conservation Legacy

The global conservation community celebrated the 100th birthday of Sir David Attenborough, the renowned British broadcaster and natural historian, on 8 May 2026. To mark this centenary, the...

 May 9, 2026

Tiger Conservation in Arunachal Pradesh

A Royal Bengal Tiger was photographically confirmed via camera trap evidence in the D’Ering Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh on 8 May 2026. This finding establishes the...

 May 9, 2026

Organ Donation and Brain Death

The global demand for organ transplantation continues to outpace the supply of available organs, making the understanding of brain death and donation protocols critical. Brain death serves as...

 May 9, 2026

Women’s Rights Activism in Uttar Pradesh

Asha Mishra, a veteran communist leader and women’s rights activist, passed away on 8 May 2026 in Lucknow at the age of 79. She began her career as...

 May 9, 2026

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