
Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist who led development of NASA’s Apollo flight software, died on 30 September 2026 at the age of 90. MIT published an obituary on 7 October 2026. Hamilton joined MIT’s Instrumentation Laboratory in 1965, where the team developed onboard software for Apollo missions.
On 8 October 2026, the Supreme Court of India directed states to upload road-accident data promptly on the Electronic Detailed Accident Report (eDAR) portal. It ordered the integration of eDAR with VAHAN, SARATHI and the Insurance Information Bureau (IIB) databases to create a digital record for each road crash and enable cross-verification of accident and insurance details.
On 8 October 2026, the NFDC–National Film Archive of India (NFDC-NFAI), based in Pune, added three 35 mm Tamil films starring Sivaji Ganesan to its national collection. Aparna Subramanian, a Film Research Officer at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), acquired and donated the prints. All three films were directed by A.P. Nagarajan.
Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson received the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature on 8 October 2026. The Swedish Academy announced the award in Stockholm, citing her literary work’s dialogue with the classical tradition and its creation of new forms for contemporary literature. Carson was born in Toronto in 1950.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India appointed Smriti Mandhana as the full-time white-ball captain of the India Women’s cricket team on 6 October 2026. Harmanpreet Kaur stepped down from the captaincy across all formats on the same day after a review meeting in Guwahati on 5 October 2026.
Jeffrey Archer, the British novelist and former politician, died at the age of 86 on 5 October 2026. He died at his home, and his final novel, Adam and Eve, was scheduled for global release on 6 October 2026.
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