PV Sindhu, India’s two-time Olympic medallist, has been elected to the Chair of the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Athletes’ Commission for the term 2026–2029.
Anu Garg, IAS officer of Odisha cadre, will become Odisha’s first woman Chief Secretary from January 1, 2026.
Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA), a new greenfield airport developed by Adani Airports, has commenced commercial flight operations.
VoxelGrids, a Zoho-backed start-up, has developed India’s first Indigenous Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner.
The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) conducted the Regional Level Pollution Response Exercise (RPREX-2025) to test oil spill preparedness held off the Mumbai coast.
China opened the 22.13-km-long Tianshan Shengli Tunnel in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, making it the world’s longest expressway tunnel.
It passes through the Tianshan Mountain range, which separates northern and southern Xinjiang.
The Param Rudra supercomputer was inaugurated at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna.
It is the first supercomputer facility in Bihar, under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).
Aishi Prisha Borah, from Jorhat, Assam, received the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2025 for her work in the science and technology promoting sustainability and waste reduction.
She has earlier won the INSPIRE MANAK (Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research – Million Minds Augmenting National Aspirations and Knowledge) State Award in 2022.