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Amritsari Kulcha: A Culinary Heritage Seeks Protection

Why in news? The Punjab Food Processing Department has applied for a Geographical Indication (GI) tag for the iconic Amritsari Kulcha. Securing the ta...

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AI Weather Forecasting for Farmers

Why in news? The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare launched an artificial intelligence‑powered monsoon forecasting system that sends pe...

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India Targets 2028 for Swadeshi Solar Cells

Why in news? Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy R.K. Singh announced that India plans to establish a fully indigenous solar manufacturing eco...

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NASA Discovers Potential Biosignatures on Mars: Sapphire Canyon & Cheyava Falls

Why in news? NASA’s Perseverance rover reported its strongest evidence yet of ancient life on Mars. In July 2024 it collected a rock sample nickname...

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Light‑based Computers (Optical Computers)

Why in news? Researchers at Tampere University in Finland and Université Marie et Louis Pasteur in France demonstrated that intense light pulses trav...

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First Overseas Atal Innovation Centre

Why in news? India inaugurated its first overseas Atal Innovation Centre (AIC) at the IIT Delhi – Abu Dhabi campus during the Education Minister’s...

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ISRO’s 100th Technology Transfer for SSLV Production

Why in news? The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) signed its 100th technology‑transfer agreement with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) t...

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China vs India in Rare Earth Elements (REEs)

Why in news? China recently tightened controls on rare earth mining and processing, reinforcing its global dominance. This development has sparked dis...

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Multi‑Stage Malaria Vaccine AdFalciVax

Why in news? The Indian government licensed five domestic firms to manufacture and commercialise AdFalciVax, the country’s first indigenous multi‑...

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Mpox (Monkeypox) Virus

Why in news? The World Health Organization announced in mid‑2025 that mpox, also known as monkeypox, no longer constitutes a Public Health Emergency...

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The Blood Moon

Why in news? On the night of 7–8 September 2025, people across India observed a total lunar eclipse known as a “blood moon”. Social media and sc...

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India’s First Port‑based Green Hydrogen Pilot Project at V.O. Chidambaranar Port

Why in news? In September 2025 the V.O. Chidambaranar Port Authority in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu commissioned India’s first port‑based green hydrog...

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Acanthamoeba: A Protozoan Health Risk

Why in news? Health authorities in Kerala raised alarm over the detection of Acanthamoeba in several water bodies. The organism can cause serious infe...

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2D Materials

Why in news? NITI Aayog’s Frontier Tech Hub, together with the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, released the fourth edition of its Future F...

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Cabinet Clears ₹1,500 crore Scheme to Promote Critical Mineral Recycling

Why in news? In September 2025 the Union Cabinet approved a six‑year incentive scheme worth ₹1,500 crore under the National Critical Mineral Mis...

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Majorana Particles

Why in news? Physicists around the world are excited about recent experiments suggesting the existence of Majorana particles in superconducting nanowi...

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Vikram 32‑bit processor: India’s first space‑grade microprocessor

Why in news? At the Semicon India conference held in Bengaluru in early September 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled Vikram 3201 — India’...

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CEREBO: Indigenous tool for rapid brain injury detection

Why in news? Scientists from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), AIIMS Bhopal, NIMHANS and startup Bioscan Research recently introduced an ...

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High performance biomanufacturing platforms

Why in news? The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) unveiled a national network of h...

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AICTE declares 2025 the Year of AI

Why in news? The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) announced that 2025 will be observed as the “Year of Artificial Intelligence” a...

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