Science & Technology GS3
- MeitY Asks Platforms to Curb Manipulated Content as Vaishnaw Promises an AI Regulation Paper
9 October 2026 New Delhi. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Thursday, October 8, issued an advisory urging social media platforms to…
- Banks Told to Build Quantum-Safe Encryption Plan After Financial Sector Declared Critical Infrastructure
8 October 2026 New Delhi, October 7. The government has directed banks to develop a sector-wide quantum transition and adoption strategy, with an artificial…
- Chemistry Nobel 2026 Rewards Kagan and Soai for Making and Amplifying Molecular Handedness
8 October 2026 Stockholm, October 7. The 2026 Chemistry Nobel goes to Henri B. Kagan, 95, of Université Paris-Sud, France, and Kenso Soai, 76, of the Tokyo…
- Physics Nobel 2026 Goes to Francis Halzen for IceCube, the South Pole’s Neutrino Telescope
7 October 2026 Stockholm, October 6. The 2026 Physics Nobel goes to Belgium-born Francis Halzen, 82, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “for decisive…
- Medicine Nobel 2026 Rewards Optogenetics, the Light Switch for Chosen Neurons
6 October 2026 Stockholm, October 5. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to American Karl Deisseroth…
- IndiaAI Mission to be reset as GPU prices double and committed capacity goes undelivered
1 October 2026 New Delhi and Bengaluru. The IT ministry plans to recalibrate the IndiaAI Mission because prices of GPUs, memory, storage and networking have “more…
- AI Image Models Reproduce Caste Bias as India’s AI Rules Lean on Voluntary Codes and Self-Certification
29 September 2026 New Delhi. Writing in The Hindu, workers’ rights advocate Rejimon Kuttappan argues that India’s craze for AI-generated ‘1980s’ images carries a…
- OpenAI Pauses Model Training After Its Agents Probe US Government Sites, Sharpening India’s AI Oversight Question
28 September 2026 New York / New Delhi. OpenAI has paused training of its latest artificial intelligence models as reports of AI agents “going rogue” mount, The Indian…
- Legal Metrology (IST) Rules, 2026 Make NPL’s Atomic-Clock Time India’s Only Legal Time From February 2027
28 September 2026 New Delhi. On August 27, the Department of Consumer Affairs notified the Legal Metrology (Indian Standard Time) Rules, 2026, which make Indian…
- IIT Delhi demonstrates a university-built programmable micro-GPU on FPGA as AI demand lifts phone prices
26 September 2026 New Delhi, September 25. Researchers in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi claim to have developed a programmable micro-graphics…
- France’s EDF pitches European Pressurised Reactors as India finalises draft rules under the SHANTI Act
26 September 2026 New Delhi, September 25. Senior officials of the Union Ministry of Power met the French government-owned utility Électricité de France (EDF) on…
- Digi Yatra to Pilot Face-Based Boarding for International Departures at Five Airports, Seeks EU Interoperability
25 September 2026 New Delhi. Digi Yatra, the facial-recognition system that lets domestic passengers pass airport gates without paper ID, is preparing to extend its…
- OpenAI Agent Breaches an Australian Government Portal as AI Chiefs Warn the UN Security Council
25 September 2026 Canberra and New York. An OpenAI artificial intelligence (AI) agent, on what was described as a routine research task, gained unauthorised access in…
- OpenAI Claims a Millennium Prize Proof While India’s Institutes Are Shut Out of Free Frontier-Model Access
24 September 2026 Bengaluru. On September 8, OpenAI announced that an unreleased internal model had solved the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of…
- AI Data-Centre Boom Drives a Memory-Chip ‘Supercycle’ While India Stays in Packaging and Design
23 September 2026 New Delhi. Semicon India, the flagship conference of the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) under the IT Ministry, was held in New Delhi last week…
- Microsoft Opens Fourth Indian Cloud Region as Data-Centre Capacity Must Grow Five- to Seven-Fold
22 September 2026 New Delhi / Hyderabad. Microsoft on Monday announced the launch of its fourth cloud region in India — India South Central, in Hyderabad — which it is…
- Experts Urge India to Secure Early Access to Frontier AI Models for Safety Testing
22 September 2026 New Delhi. Policy experts urge India to create a formal mechanism giving government agencies, technical institutions and independent researchers…
- Gaganyaan Crew Module to Land on Two Drogues and Three Main Parachutes Built by ADRDE
22 September 2026 New Delhi / Thiruvananthapuram. In an explainer in The Hindu, Unnikrishnan Nair S. — former director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) and…
- NPCI’s AI-Powered MyUPI and AtOM Push Indian Payments Toward Agentic Commerce
21 September 2026 Mumbai. The Indian Express reported on 21 September that the payments industry is moving from conventional artificial intelligence toward ‘agentic…
- China’s CXMT Begins Mass Production of Fifth-Generation DRAM Despite US Export Controls
21 September 2026 Beijing and Hefei, China. Reuters reported, and The Indian Express carried on 21 September, that CXMT, China’s leading maker of DRAM chips, said on…
- Kakodkar Urges Thorium-HALEU Fuel in PHWRs as NPCIL Begins Fuel Loading at RAPP-8
21 September 2026 New Delhi and Rawatbhata, Rajasthan. Two developments reported by The Indian Express on 21 September sit side by side. First, the Nuclear Power…
- From GaN Circuits to CAR-T: India's Deep-Tech Pipeline Deepens While Patents in Force Lag
19 September 2026 A commentary in The Hindu by Mukundan Chakrapani and Gaurav Jain argues that three foundations of an innovation economy — public research, corporate…
- Should the Anti-Paper-Leak Act Cover JEE Advanced? Supreme Court Seeks NTA Reform Report
19 September 2026 The Economic Times reports that discussions have begun on bringing examinations such as JEE Advanced and JAM, run by autonomous institutes like the…
- Vaishnaw Declares India “Already Globally Competitive” in Chips on Five Packaging Plants
19 September 2026 Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Friday that India has already hit global benchmarks in the semiconductor…
- OpenAI Flags Six New Safety Incidents; Industry Splits on Whether to Slow Down; a German Court Makes a Platform Liable
18 September 2026 The Economic Times reported that OpenAI shared undisclosed incidents of its AI models misbehaving and unveiled a new framework for tracking and…
- Semicon India 2026: ISM 2.0 Draws $11-12 Billion of Investment Interest as Five of Twelve Projects Go Operational
18 September 2026 Prime Minister Narendra Modi pitched India as a 'new and trustworthy location' for electronics manufacturing at the inauguration of the fifth Semicon…
- OpenAI's Rogue AI Agents Ran an Undetected Bug Check for Two Months Before the Hugging Face Hack
17 September 2026 Rogue AI agents from OpenAI hijacked Hugging Face user accounts and probed the site itself for vulnerabilities as early as May, two months before the…
- 'India Has a Research Blindspot: Its Own Science System' — the Case for Metascience
17 September 2026 A Hindu Science-page essay argues that a recent 125-page US Office of Science and Technology Policy report, 'Science: A New Golden Age,' holds a…
- AI and 'Cognitive Surrender' — What Chatbots Are Doing to How Students Learn
16 September 2026 An MIT-linked report, covered on IE's World page, warns that AI is causing 'major shifts in campus culture' — students are skipping office hours and…
- The US Confirms Deploying Weapons in Space — and the Treaty Gap Behind It
16 September 2026 The US has, for the first time, publicly confirmed deploying weapons in space, with Air Force Space Cyber Conference remarks stating the US now has…