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India has achieved an important milestone in naval technology by developing indigenous Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs).

On 23 October 2026, the first participant was vaccinated in the TUMAINI Phase 2/3 clinical trial in Bunia, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

On October 18, 2026, the Press Information Bureau highlighted the nutritional and agricultural benefits of Kufri Jamunia.

India's Ministry of Defence has floated a tender for 500 scramjet propulsion systems to support the country's hypersonic missile development programme.

The National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, Kundli (NIFTEM-K) hosted “Hack the Fork” on October 24–25, 2026.

ISRO’s third next-generation navigation satellite, NVS-03, is scheduled for launch on October 30, 2026. It could help restore NavIC’s ability to independently determine a user’s position.

Indian theoretical physicist Ashoke Sen has been awarded the prestigious Oskar Klein Medal 2026, becoming the first Indian physicist to receive this international honour. The award recognises his pioneering contributions to string theory, black hole entropy and string field theory.

Researchers reported the synthesis of diamondiyne, a new three-dimensional carbon allotrope, in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

BrahMos Aerospace has announced that it expects to develop the first prototype of its next-generation BrahMos-NG (Next Generation) missile by 2027-28.

Switzerland, Sweden and the United States have secured the top three positions in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2026 released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).