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The United Nations General Assembly approved an African-led resolution on 4 September 2026 to promote maps that show continents in more accurate relative sizes. The resolution supports the use of the Equal Earth projection and moves away from the 16th-century Mercator projection in educational and public mapping contexts.
Nepal and downstream regions faced fresh flood threats after a barrier lake holding 2–5 million cubic metres of water in Tibet began overflowing and breaching.
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A landslide-dammed lake near the Nepal-Tibet border overflowed on 28 August 2026 after a massive glacial collapse on 26 August 2026 triggered flash floods and landslides in the border region. The lake formed near the confluence of the Chhochen Khola and Purepu Tsangpo rivers and was estimated at about 2 million cubic metres.
In Uttarakhand’s Bageshwar district, rampant underground and open-cast soapstone mining has triggered severe land subsidence, widening ground fissures and damaging hundreds of homes across vulnerable villages.
The Kerala High Court ruled that traditional cowledars holding pandaram land before the 1965 Regulation are lawful landowners, quashing arbitrary resumption orders.
The Union Cabinet has approved the Pradhan Mantri Surya Sarovar Yojana (PM-SSY) with a total outlay of ₹5,070 crore to deploy 5,000 MW of Floating Solar Photovoltaic (FSPV) projects integrated with 10,000 MWh of battery energy storage systems across India’s reservoirs and inland water bodies.
The Indian Navy received ‘Mangrol’, the third indigenously built Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW-SWC) constructed by Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) in Kochi.
In an analysis for healthcare policy, highlighted how integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into clinical and administrative workflows can bridge India’s healthcare capacity gap.
Google has launched its Back to School 2026 campaign, introducing AI-powered learning features across Google Search, Gemini and Google Classroom.
US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor visited the historic Thiksey Monastery in Ladakh during his official tour of the Union Territory.
Telangana Chief Minister had to cancel the US leg of his 10-day foreign tour after the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) denied him political clearance.