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- The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) launched the Silver Refinery Scheme to certify and hallmark silver bullion and coins in three purity grades: 999.9, 999.5 and 999.0 parts per thousand, ensuring their purity and authenticity.
- India ranked third globally in cumulative contracted clean hydrogen volumes, with binding contracts for 3 lakh tonnes of clean hydrogen per annum and green ammonia export agreements exceeding 10 lakh tonnes per annum, according to the Bloomberg New Economy Forum’s India Transition Factbook 2026.
- The 10th National Convention of Agrivision was held at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)–National Agricultural Science Complex (NASC), Pusa, New Delhi, to connect students, scientists, entrepreneurs and farmers and promote agricultural education, research, technology and entrepreneurship.
- Greater Chennai Corporation organised Pink Pulse 2026, an online breast cancer awareness programme, in collaboration with the Department of Radiation Oncology at Tamil Nadu Government Multi Super Speciality Hospital, Chennai.
- India inaugurated its largest integrated phenol and acetone plant in Haldia, West Bengal, developed by Adperma Private Limited, and it is the first phenol manufacturing facility on India’s eastern coast.
- The 17-member Indian Coast Guard (ICG) team scaled Mount Mukut (7,045 m) in the Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand, near the India–Tibet border.
- The fifth edition of the India–Australia joint military exercise AUSTRAHIND began in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh represented India at the 25th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of Government meeting in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
- The meeting focused on trade, economy, investment, connectivity, innovation and cultural-humanitarian exchanges among member states.
- India crossed 300 gigawatts (GW) of installed electricity generation capacity from non-fossil fuel sources, adding over 55 GW during 2025–26.
- India aims to achieve 500 GW of non-fossil fuel-based energy capacity by 2030, with solar and wind energy as major contributors.
- Bengaluru-born astronomer Dr. Ramya Anche was selected as the Principal Investigator of NASA’s $20 million PUFFINS space telescope mission.
- PUFFINS stands for Polarimetry in the Ultraviolet to Find Features in Interstellar dust and is a small satellite mission carrying a 10-inch ultraviolet space telescope in low Earth orbit.
- Dr. T. M. Balakrishnan Nair, Director of the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), was elected Chair of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission’s Sub-Commission for the Indian Ocean (IOCINDIO).
- IOCINDIO, a UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) sub-commission, was formally launched in May 2025 to strengthen regional cooperation in Indian Ocean research and marine science.
- IG Defence is developing JWALA-MK1, an indigenous short-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) that uses a hard-kill method to destroy hostile drones, and successfully tested its two solid rocket motors.
- World Osteoporosis Day is observed annually on October 20 to raise awareness about osteoporosis, early detection and bone health.
- The theme for the year 2026 is “Build, Protect, Strengthen Your Bones for Life.”
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