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The 2026 prize honours the discovery of light-gated ion channels — the molecular switches that made optogenetics possible. NOT SCRIPTED reads the Nobel Committee's own account of how three independent lines of work converged on the same molecule.
The court's new term opened with a bid by major oil and gas companies to head off lawsuits that hold them liable for climate harm. The legal question underneath is older and larger than one case: can a court order a polluter to pay for damage that is decades away?
The search for those missing after the monsoon floods has been called off, and attention has shifted to a long-term programme of draining four glacial lakes identified as the source of the destruction.
India's chase of 212 in the final ended with Pakistan 192 all out, sealing a second gold in cricket at the 2026 Games after India completed a double in the event.
EU scientists report that a majority of the continent's population experienced very strong heat stress over the summer, while separate research has a Slovenian glacier on track to disappear within days and Swiss ice taking another sharp loss.
A 7.8% print for the April-June quarter has been treated as a triumph by the government and as suspect by critics. Both camps are looking at the same dataset — and disagreeing about which year it is measured from.
The seventh edition runs from September 8 to 11, and the theme has moved decisively from potential to deployment — the question on the floor is no longer what the technology can do but who is regulated to let it do it.
The National Statistics Office put real GDP at ₹81.36 lakh crore. Real gross value added grew 8.2%; nominal GDP grew 10.3%.
Axios reported the claim, with Al-Monitor and Times of Israel carrying an Iran–Oman agreement to clear them. The maritime agencies that would confirm it have not.
NOT SCRIPTED assembled the Congressional Research Service, the IEA, the EIA and the FAO's trade data into a single exposure map — and found that the most useful number for India is also the least commonly quoted.
The statement, carried on August 21, redraws a boundary the space policy has been pushing towards for years — and leaves the crewed programme untouched.
Air India moved its first scheduled services out of the new airport on August 17. For travellers in Bengaluru, the pair replaces a road leg — if it holds.
