Science & Technology Current Affairs One-liners — Last 6 months

Tue, 12 May 2026

• On 12 May 2026 CSIR said 13 indigenous technologies of CSIR-Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee, were transferred to industries and start-ups at a National Technology Day event at CSIR headquarters, New Delhi.

Mon, 11 May 2026

• On National Technology Day, 11 May 2026, which recalls the Pokhran nuclear tests of 1998, the 'Vigyan–Tech' programme of 14 scientific ministries was held at BRIC–NII, New Delhi, where ICMR licensed three medical technologies to industry.
• On 11 May 2026 Union Ministers JP Nadda and Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched the SEHAT Mission in Delhi, a joint national mission of ICAR and ICMR linking agriculture with nutrition, disease prevention and farmer welfare.
• On 11 May 2026 Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurated India's first integrated Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) field laboratory at IIT Bombay under Bharat Innovates 2026.
• On 11 May 2026 the Textiles Ministry described how the National Jute Board has run the Jute Crop Information System since 2023 with ISRO and the Jute Corporation of India, using the BHUVAN JUMP app and the PATSAN web platform.

Sun, 10 May 2026

• On 10 May 2026 Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh reviewed the Sophisticated Analytical & Technical Help Institute (SATHI) set up at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi with support of the Department of Science & Technology.

Sat, 09 May 2026

• On 9 May 2026 DRDO's Defence Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL) ran its actively cooled full-scale scramjet combustor for over 1,200 seconds at the Scramjet Connect Pipe Test facility in Hyderabad, a step towards hypersonic cruise missiles.

Fri, 08 May 2026

• On 8 May 2026 India successfully flight-tested an Advanced Agni missile with a Multiple Independently Targeted Re-Entry Vehicle (MIRV) system from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha, hitting multiple targets spread over the Indian Ocean Region.
• On 8 May 2026 DST announced that scientists at ARIES, Nainital found UV radiation from a massive star triggering new star formation in Bright Rimmed Cloud 44 in the Cepheus OB2 complex, identifying 22 new young stellar objects.
• The Bureau of Indian Standards hosted the 35th Plenary and Working Group meetings of the ISO TC 20/SC 14 'Space Systems and Operations' subcommittee in New Delhi, the first time India hosted them, with 131 delegates from 13 countries, the Consumer Affairs Ministry announced on 8 May 2026.

Thu, 07 May 2026

• On 7 May 2026 DRDO and the Indian Air Force conducted the maiden flight-trial of the Tactical Advanced Range Augmentation (TARA) weapon off the Odisha coast, India's first indigenous glide weapon system that turns unguided warheads into precision-guided weapons.
• On 7 May 2026 IndiaAI, under MeitY, signed an MoU with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) under which ICMR will share datasets and models from its MIDAS framework on the AIKosh platform and get subsidised GPU compute.
• On 7 May 2026 Union Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya launched the nationwide Annual Health Check-Up Initiative for workers aged 40 and above under the Labour Codes from ESIC Medical College & Hospital, Basaidarapur, Delhi.
• On 7 May 2026 Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh held a video meeting with France's Minister for Higher Education, Research and Space Philippe Baptiste, who proposed closer cooperation in human spaceflight, as both sides noted 2026 is the Indo-French Year of Innovation.

Wed, 06 May 2026

• On 6 May 2026 DRDO Chairman Dr Samir V Kamat inaugurated a Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) field training and demonstration centre at Burari plains in Delhi, part of an upcoming CBRN Centre of Excellence under INMAS.
• On 6 May 2026 MoES Secretary Dr M. Ravichandran inaugurated an Urban Testbed and Aerosol Observatory set up by IITM Pune under Mission Mausam at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Ramapuram, Chennai, described as the first of its kind in India.
• On 6 May 2026 DST said a study led by scientists of ARIES, Nainital, published in The Astrophysical Journal, used 3D simulations to show that the plasma composition of extragalactic jets and their environment can explain why some appear core-brightened (FR I) and others edge-brightened (FR II).
• On 6 May 2026 MeitY said the new Aadhaar App has been downloaded over 21 million times in three months, with over 28 lakh people updating their mobile numbers and nearly 6 lakh updating addresses through it.

Tue, 05 May 2026

• On 5 May 2026 the Union Cabinet approved two semiconductor projects in Gujarat worth about ₹3,936 crore under the India Semiconductor Mission — Crystal Matrix's GaN-based Mini/Micro-LED display facility at Dholera and Suchi Semicon's OSAT unit at Surat — taking approved ISM projects to 12.
• On 5 May 2026 India and the EU launched a third coordinated call for proposals on recycling EV batteries under Working Group 2 of the India–EU Trade and Technology Council, with a combined €15.2 million (~₹169 crore) funding pool and a deadline of 15 September 2026.

Mon, 04 May 2026

• The Union Health Ministry began a nationwide Fire Safety Week from 4 to 10 May 2026 with a pledge on 'Fire Safety in Health Facilities' led by Health Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava, and unveiled the National Guidelines on Fire and Life Safety in Healthcare Facilities (2026).
• The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting and the Indian Institute of Creative Technologies (IICT), Mumbai, said on 4 May 2026 that enrolment is open for their national AI skilling programme for the creative sector, offering 15,000 scholarships developed with Google and YouTube.

Sun, 03 May 2026

• Bengaluru-based startup GalaxEye launched Mission Drishti, the world's first OptoSAR satellite combining optical and synthetic aperture radar imaging and India's largest privately built satellite, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg, California, on 3 May 2026.
• Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurated a 100-bedded ESIC hospital at Doddaballapur, Karnataka, on 3 May 2026 and virtually laid the foundation stone of another 100-bedded ESIC hospital at Bellary, noting that social security coverage has risen from 19% in 2015 to over 64%.
• The Ministry of Electronics and IT clarified on 3 May 2026 that reports claiming Aadhaar would change by the end of the year to show only a photo and a QR code are not correct, and there is no plan for any such change.

Sat, 02 May 2026

• Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on 2 May 2026 launched the Cell Broadcast System, an indigenous public-warning technology developed by C-DOT with NDMA and the Home Ministry, and a nationwide test sent emergency alerts to mobile phones across the country.

Fri, 01 May 2026

• The Bureau of Indian Standards published six new Indian Standards for priority assistive products — elbow crutches, walking sticks, multi-legged walking sticks, portable ramps, tactile guide maps and Braille on signage — under ICMR's National List of Essential Assistive Products, the Consumer Affairs Ministry said on 1 May 2026.
• The open-field observatory of the Coastal Atmospheric Research Testbed (C-ART), set up by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, under Mission Mausam, was inaugurated on 1 May 2026 by Earth Sciences Secretary M. Ravichandran.

Thu, 30 Apr 2026

• Health Minister J.P. Nadda on 30 April 2026 inaugurated the 10th National Summit on Innovation and Inclusivity: Best Practices Shaping India's Health Future, hosted by Haryana, where RBSK 2.0 guidelines and a guidance document on diabetes in children were released.
• TRAI on 30 April 2026 released a consultation paper on the regulatory framework for Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication, following a DoT reference of 1 December 2025, with comments due by 28 May 2026.