1251 results for “2026”
The 22nd edition of Yudh Abhyas, the annual India-US bilateral military exercise, is scheduled from 9 September to 28 September 2026. The exercise is being conducted in a two-theatre format across Bikaner in Rajasthan and Auli in Uttarakhand.
India’s nuclear arsenal has been estimated at 190 warheads in 2026 by two major international assessments, the Federation of American Scientists and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Both assessments placed India’s stockpile at the same figure, with SIPRI estimating 190 warheads as of January 2026 and FAS giving a similar count in its 2026 study.
The 9th ASEAN–India Ministerial Meeting on Agriculture and Forestry (AIMMAF) was held in New Delhi on 9 September 2026. The meeting was co-chaired by Francisco P. Tiu Laurel, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture of the Philippines, and Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare of India.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) announced a ₹2,000-crore alternative investment fund for deeptech energy startups on 8 September 2026 at an industry event at IIT Bombay. A tripartite Memorandum of Understanding was signed among the MC²⁺ Foundation, IIT Bombay, and the Society for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (SINE) to connect startups with research facilities, laboratories, mentors, and pilot projects.
India won two gold medals and one silver medal on the penultimate day of the World Archery Para Series Stage III at Ahmedabad in Gujarat on 8 September 2026. The results came in compound, recurve, and mixed team events in para archery, which is governed internationally by World Archery.
The 2026 Pickleball World Cup was held in Da Nang, Vietnam, from 30 August 2026, and India finished fourth in the overall medal standings with 41 medals. The Indian tally included seven gold, 17 silver, and 17 bronze medals, and the result marked an improvement from India’s seventh-place finish at the previous World Cup.
The 503-member Indian contingent for the 20th Asian Games received an official send-off in New Delhi on 8 September 2026. The Games are scheduled from 19 September 2026 to 4 October 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, and Indian athletes will compete in 36 sporting disciplines.
The Odisha Forest Department rescued five young orangutans from the Ranakotha Protected Reserved Forest in the Bhograi block of Balasore district on 8 September 2026. The rescued primates included three males and two females, and officials transferred them to Nandankanan Zoological Park in Bhubaneswar for quarantine and care.
The Indian Air Force (IAF) will organise Dronathon-2026 at the Pokhran range in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, from 14 September to 16 September 2026. The three-day military aviation event will focus on Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (CUAS) for defence applications.
Google DeepMind launched the AlphaGenome Atlas on 8 September 2026 as an open-access database for human DNA analysis. The resource contains 1 petabyte of precomputed artificial intelligence predictions for all 9 billion possible single-letter mutations in human DNA.
Australia and India expanded space-sector cooperation on 8 September 2026 through five industry partnerships announced at the 9th Bengaluru Space Expo in Bengaluru. The agreements covered satellite infrastructure, spacecraft recovery, spaceport activities, research collaboration, and advanced manufacturing.
India and Morocco held the inaugural meeting of their Joint Defence Committee (JDC) in New Delhi on 8 September 2026. The meeting created a formal bilateral mechanism for defence cooperation between the two countries under a Defence Cooperation Memorandum of Understanding signed in September 2025.