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Indian Railways has used AI-based systems, speed restrictions, and wildlife deterrence measures to reduce elephant-train collisions on vulnerable railway stretches. The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) saved 255 elephants between January and September 2026 across its Alipurduar, Lumding, Tinsukia, and Rangiya divisions.
Andhra Pradesh launched India’s first pilot housing project using 3D concrete printing technology on 4 October 2026. The project covers 177 houses in Burripalem and Obulnayudupalem villages in Tenali Mandal of Guntur district under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G) 2.0.
The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or JUICE, completed its third Earth gravity assist on 28 September 2026. The spacecraft passed about 8,640 km above Earth over the Indian Ocean and changed its trajectory by about 20 degrees.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 was awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel on 5 October 2026. The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, announced the prize for discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.
The Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) began its Diamond Jubilee Year celebrations at Jaduguda on 4 October 2026. UCIL was incorporated in 1967 and operates as a Public Sector Enterprise under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). The Jaduguda mine started operations in 1967 and was the first uranium mine in India.
Kerala is set to launch the IT Parks Affiliation Scheme on 6 October 2026 to connect IT companies outside major government-owned IT parks with a state-level technology ecosystem. The scheme will allow eligible firms to access benefits usually extended by IT parks and to register through an affiliation portal opened before the launch.
Scientists at the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) developed an India-specific disease severity score for sickle cell anaemia on 2 October 2026. The tool was built from clinical data of 171 Indian children aged up to 18 years treated at the Government Medical College and Hospital, Nagpur.
Scientists announced the first direct detection of radio signals from an exoplanet on 23 September 2026. The signals came from Beta Pictoris b, a gas giant about 63 to 64 light-years from Earth, and were detected with South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope array.
SpaceX launched the Transporter-18 rideshare mission on 1 October 2026 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The mission deployed 130 payloads into low Earth orbit, and the launch occurred at 2:32 p.m. EDT, which was 11:32 a.m. local time in California.
Scientists identified two new Australian stick insect species in 2026 after re-examining members of the genus Anchiale. The study also reinstated one previously unrecognised species and revised the group from two species to five distinct species.
The Indian Institute of Creative Technologies (IICT) signed five Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) on 30 September 2026 at FICCI FRAMES 2026 in Mumbai. The agreements were signed at the Grand Hyatt during the second day of the two-day event held on 29 and 30 September 2026.
Bathymyrus perplexus is a newly identified fish species from the Bay of Bengal, with scientific identification completed by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) unit at Gopalpur on 30 September 2026. The species was first represented by a specimen collected off Paradip in 2021, and 32 specimens were recorded between 2021 and 2025 from Paradip, West Bengal, the Godavari region, and Kakinada.