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Gegeneophis chandgadi is a newly described subterranean, legless amphibian, also called a caecilian, from Buzawade village in Chandgad tehsil of Kolhapur district, Maharashtra. The species was formally published in the Records of the Zoological Survey of India on 2 September 2026 and belongs to the genus Gegeneophis, which includes Indian caecilians from the Western Ghats.
Pixxel, a Bengaluru-based space-tech startup founded by Awais Ahmed and Kshitij Khandelwal, closed a $100 million Series C funding round on 7 September 2026. The company works in space and planetary intelligence and develops satellite-based Earth observation systems.
Indian Railways is developing India’s first hydrogen-powered trainset for regular operation at a target speed of 110 kmph. The train completed trial runs at 120 kmph, while its earlier operational cap was 75 kmph.
Google has launched India-first artificial intelligence models for agriculture through Google DeepMind’s AnthroKrishi team. The two models are Agricultural Landscape Understanding (ALU) and Agricultural Monitoring and Event Detection (AMED), and they are designed to generate field-level agricultural intelligence.
India won nine medals at the 19th International Earth Science Olympiad (IESO) 2026, held in Turin, Italy, from August 20 to 27, 2026. The four-member Indian student team won four gold, three silver, and two bronze medals, which marked the country’s best-ever performance in the competition.
Researchers at the University of California San Diego demonstrated that Escherichia coli RNA polymerase can read and transcribe a synthetic eight-letter genetic alphabet. The study was published on 2 September 2026 in Nature Communications and was led by Dong Wang of the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Adobe, the San Jose-based software company, announced on 3 September 2026 that Anil Chakravarthy will become its next president and chief executive officer. Chakravarthy currently heads Adobe’s Customer Experience Orchestration business and will join the company’s Board of Directors on 1 December 2026.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted accelerated approval to AstraZeneca’s Etcamah, also known as camizestrant, on 4 September 2026 for adults with advanced or metastatic hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer with an ESR1 mutation. The drug was approved as a 75 mg oral daily therapy in combination with CDK4/6 inhibitors abemaciclib, palbociclib, or ribociclib.
A team of botanists described a new flowering plant species, Thismia daemona, in the journal PhytoKeys on 3 September 2026. The species was found in Thong Pha Phum National Park in western Thailand during a 2025 field survey and was nicknamed the “devil flower” because of its dark, horned appearance.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched GSLV-F17 on 4 September 2026 from the Second Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. The 51.7-metre-tall rocket carried the 2,367 kg EOS-05 satellite and placed it in a Sub-Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit about 18 to 19 minutes after liftoff.
The National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT), under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), and Intel India launched the Agentic AI Skilling Programmes on 3 September 2026. The initiative is linked to training youth across India in artificial intelligence skills for work with systems that can reason, plan and execute tasks.
The Indian Patent Office granted Patent No. 599900 on 2 September 2026 to the Chairman of the Defence Research & Development Organisation and the Advanced Centre of Research in High Energy Materials at the University of Hyderabad. The patent covers a next-generation solid rocket propellant fuel with the chemical designation N1,N1,N1,N4,N4,N4-hexaethylbut-2-yne-1,4-diaminiumdodecaborane and the energetic compound name BAM-H24.