ISRAEL HONOURED PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI

* ISRAEL PARLIAMENT CONFERRED SPEAKER OF THE KNESSET HONOUR ON PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI.

* IT IS THE HIGHEST HONOUR OF ISRAEL PARLIAMENT.

FIRST ADIMA KALA RATNA AWARD 2026

* Adima Kala Trust Of Udupi Chosen Ravindra Korisettar, An Archaeologist And Professor To Received The First ADIMA KALA RATNA AWARD 2026 

A NEW SHRIMP HAS DISCOVERD IN KERALA

* RESEARCHERS FROM CUSAT & CSIR NIO Goa HAVE DISCOVERED A NEW SNAPPING SHRIMP SPECIES IN KERALA.

* NAMED - ALPHEUS MADHUSOODANAI in The Cochin Estuary 

* SPECIES NAMED AFTER - BIOLOGIST DR. B MADHUSOODANAI Kurup 

BLAVATNIK AWARDS 2026

* 3 SCIENTISTS FROM LONDON GETS AWARDED WITH BLAVATNIK AWARDS 2026.

* YOUNG SCIENTIST -- THI HOANG DUONG ( LIFE SCIENCE CATEGORY) 

* PAOLA PINILLA - FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCE &  ENGINEERING 

* MAXIE M ROESSLER - CHEMICAL SCIENCE 

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 25TH FEBRUARY 2026

1) An MoU Signed Between Tata Motors And V O Chidambaranar Port In Presence Of Sarbananda Sonowal To Introduce Green Hydrogen Power Heavy Duty Truck, 

2) An Air Ambulance Crashed In Kasariya Panchayat, Jharkhand.

3) Emma Raducanu, Britain's Top Ranked Female Tennis Player Appointed As Brand Ambassador Of UNIQLO 

4) Scientists From IISER Pune, Have Designed Molecular Keys Using Blue LED Light, And 1,3,4 Thiodiazole 

5) The Indian Army's Khadga Corps Participate In Exercise KHADGA SHAKTI 2026 At Mahajan Field Firing Range In Bikaner District, Rajasthan.

6) Researchers From IIT MADRAS Have Secured A Patent For An Optics Based Technique That Precisely Measure Blood Clotting Time Tracking Changes In Reflected Light On Implant Surfaces.

7) Government Of Cabinet Has Unveiled The POLICY To Tackle Terror Threats PRAHAR 

8) Bangladesh, Costa Rica And Guetmala Have Been Joined The New Delhi AI  Declaration  (TOTAL 91 Countries) 

9) Ex Ambuja Cement MD Ajay Kapur Appointed As Group CEO Of Suzlon Energy.

10) Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma Has Presented a State Budget.

11) Indian Runner Pooja Aatmaram Banned Fore Three Years 

12) Rajiv Shukla Has Nominated To India - Austria Parliamentary Friendship Group For 18th Lok Sabha.

13) 1000 Years Old Tomb Found In Panama, 

14) Former Commissioner Of Archaeology Dr Raja de Silva Passed Away.

15) Jharkhand Presented Rs 1.58 Lakh Crores Budget For FY 27.

16) Government Has Given Additional Charge Nidhi Chhibber  As Chief Executive Officer Of NITI AAYOG.

17) IIT Madras Professor B Ravindran Appointed To UN Scientific Panel On AI.

18) Union Cabny Has Approved The Renaming Of State Kerala To Keralam.

19) Gujarat chief minister Bhupendra Patel Has Launched The Book - Vishwaguru Srila Prabhupada - Author - Dr Usha Upadhyay 

20) Researchers FROM IIT Indore Have Developed High Accuracy AI Algorithm To Detect Breast And Cervical Cancer From Medical Images - 

21) FSIB Recommends Hitesh Ramesh Chandra Joshi For CMD Of GIC.

22) The 16th EDITION OF The Joint Special Forces Exercise VAJRA PRAHAR Between India And US Held In Himachal Pradesh.

23) Adima Kala Trust Of Udupi Chosen Ravindra Korisettar, An Archaeologist And Professor To Received The First ADIMA KALA RATNA AWARD 2026 

24) Indian Army And Indian Railway Launched a Framework Of Cooperation To Strengthen Post Retirement Employment Avenues For Agniveers.

25) India And Gulf Cooperation Council Signed Joint Statement On India - GCC Free Trade Agreements.

26) Priyaranjan Prusty Appointed As New Niti administrator Of PURI Shri Jagannath.

27) The 7th Edition Of India - Japan Joint Military Exercise DHARMA GUARDIAN Commence At Uttarakhand.

28) Chhattisgarh Finance Minister O P Choudhary Presented The Annual Budget Of Rs 1,72 Lakh Crores For FY 27.

29) Cabinet Approved The MSP For Raw Jute 2026/27 ) ( 5,925/Quintal ) 

30) New Delhi Host The 7th All India Conference Of Goverment Railway Police Chiefs 

31) PM - Kisan Completed 7 Years.

TWO NEW SPECIES OF ARMY ANT DISCOVERED IN EASTERN GHATS

* RESEARCHERS HAVE DISCOVERED TWO NEW ARMY ANT SPECIES FOUND IN EASTERN GHATS. ( ANDHRA PRADESH) 

* AENICTUS CHITTOORENSIS Sp Nov.

* AENICTUS LANKAMALLENSIS Sp nov 

* 

DECEMBER - JANUARY ISRO & SPACE CA IN 2025/26

AWARDS - 

* Tessy Thomas, Missile Woman Of India Received The Dr Paulos Mar Gregorios Award 2025: ( For Her Contribution In Agni Missile Agni -IV & Agni -V) Ballistic Missile.

* SELECTED FOR - 

Urbasi Sinha, From Raman Research Institute ( RRI) Selected For The Quantum 100 Under The International Year Of Quantum Science & Technology 2025

LAUNCHED - 

* INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION (ISRO) HAS SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED ITS 100TH SATELLITE ON 24TH DECEMBER 2025.

* THE LVM3-M6 / BLUE -BIRD BLOCK -2 a COMMERCIAL MISSION ON LVM-3 VEHICLE.

* THIS IS THE 6TH OPERATIONAL FLIGHT OF LVM-3.

* THE WORLD'S HEAVIEST COMMERICAL COMSAT in LEO - AST MOBILE SPACE 

* ISRO SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED FROM SRIHARIKOTA, ANDHRA PRADESH.

* 

FINDS - 

* Pune Researchers Rashi Jain And Yogesh Wadadekar Have Discovered Alaknanda, A Massive Spiral Galaxy That Existed When Universe Was Just 1.5 Billion Years Old 

* THE WEEK Felicitated Shubhranshu Shukla As Men Of The Year 2025.

* Since 2014 ISRO Has Been Launched Over 390 Foreign Satellites.

* ISRO SUCCESSFULLY Completed Drogue Parachute Deployment Qualification Test For The Gaganyaan Crew Module At Chandigarh.

JANUARY - 

* ISRO Has Been Awarded Tagore Prize For Social Achievement 2024/25 Award 

* Hyderbad Based Dhruva Space Will Launch 10 Space Mission On 12th January 2026 

* Orbit Aid Aerospace Has Unveiled Its Official AayulSAT Will Launch On 12th January 2026 

* ISRO LAUNCHED PSLV C-62 

* ON 12TH JANUARY 2026 ISRO ATTEMPTED THE EOS-N1 MISSION FROM PSLV -C62 CARRIER AT SDSC - SHAR SARIHARIKOTA, ANDHRA PRADESH. 

* THIS WAS THE 64TH FLIGHT FROM PSLV 

* 5TH MISSION OF PSLV - DL VARIANT 

* VEHICLE HEIGHT - 44.4 M 

* IT WOULD CARRY EOS - N1 ALONG WITH 15 OTHER SATELLITE 

* BOSCO UNIVERSITY STUDENT DEVELOPED SATELLITE - LACHIT - 1 ( FIRST SATELLITE FROM NORTH EAST TO BE SENT INTO SSPACE ABROAD PSLV- C62) 

* AND ORBIT AID Aerospace - THEY SET TO DEMONSTRATE INDIA's FIRST O - ORBIT INTERNAL PROPELLANT TRANSFER 

* DHRUVA SPACE TO DELIVER THEIR THYBOLT-3 

*  Bengaluru Based Nabh DRISHTI Aerospace Has Successfully Tested It's Indigenous ND400 Microjet Engine.

RETIRES - 

*  NASA Astronaut Sunita Williams Retires After 27 Years.

*  Pixxel Space Has Signed WITH IN Space India To Design, Build, And Operate India's National EO Satellite SYSTEM Along With Dhruva Space, SAT SURE 

* Researchers From IIT KHARAGPUR Have Successfully Developed a Critical Boron Based Chemical For ISRO 's GAGANYAAN Mission - 

* 

DEVELOPED - 

* Bengaluru BASED AKASHLABDHI Set To Launch India's First Inflatable Space Habitat AntarikshHUB

* Astronomer Have Discovered A New Planet, 146 Light Years From Earth ( HD137010b) 

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 24TH FEBRUARY 2026

1) Indian Army Launched The Operation TRASHI -2 To search Terrorist Activities In Jammu and Kashmir.

2) Tomas Martin Wins Men's Single Title At Rio Open 2026 

3) Aravind Chithambaram Wins The AI- Beruiny International Tournament.

4) How To Be Extraordinary Book Author - Shiv Shankar Singh 

5) 1994 Batch IFS Officer Neeta Bhusan Has Been Appointed As Indian Ambassador To Republic Of Poland.

6) Former Union Minister (Railway Minister) And Senior TMC LEADER Mukul Roy Passed Away 

7) India Recorded 177,177 Deaths In Road Accidents in 2024. ( Uttar Pradesh Number 1 With 24,118) 

8) Scientists Have Discovered 95 Millions Years Old Fossils Of New Species Of Spinasourus Called Spinasourus Mirabilis in AFRICA.

9) V K Jhanji, Former Acting Chief Justice Of Jammu And Kashmir High Court Passed Away.

10) Five Railway Station Of North East Gets Eat Right Station Certification.

11) GI Tagged Salem Sago Consignment Has Sent From Tamilnadu To Canada.

12) Assamese Film NOT A HERO Directed By Rima Das Wins Crystal Bear - Special Mention At Berlin International Film Festival.

13) India - Cuba IT Council Launched In Bengaluru.

14) Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh Has Launched The Indigenous Tetanus And Adult Diphtheria Vaccine.

15) President Droupadi MURMU UNVEILED The Bust Of First And Only Governor General Of Independent India Shri Chakrabarti Rajagopalachari At Rasthrapati Bhavan, New Delhi 

16) Indian Navy Unveiled The ANJADIP, Third Ship Of The Eight ASW - SWC BUILT By GRSE, To COMMISIONED On 27th February 2026 

17) Sidhhant Banthia And Alexander Donski Wins Men's Double Title At Delhi Open 2026 

18) Shri Manoranjan Pradhan Takes Charge As General Manager Of Rail Wheel Factory, Bangalore.

19) Shailesh Vagerwal Selected For MD CEO OF Bharat Dynamic Limited ( BDL).

20) 2007 Batch IAS OFFICER From Gujarat Sandip Janardanpant Has Been Appointed As Chief Electrol OFFICER OF Gujarat.

21) Northern Coalfield Limited (NCL) Has CONFERRED With GOLDEN Peacock Award For Corporate Social Responsibility 2025.

22) ODISHA Mining Corporation ( OMC) Has CONFERRED With GOLDEN Peacock HR Excellence Award 

23) Andhra Pradesh State Assembly Passed The Prisons And Correctional Services Bill 2026 

24) Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Has Launched The National Monetisation Pipeline 2.0 ( MNP 2.0) 

DECEMBER - JANUARY WILDLIFE & ENVIRONMENT CA 2025/26

DECEMBER 2025 - 

* ATYOPSIS SPINIPES, The BAMBOO Shrimp Has Been Re Discovered In Karnataka And Odisha After 72 Years.

* a Horn Eyed Ghost Crab In News in Vishakapatnam.

* RESEARCHERS FROM ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA (ZSI) HAVE DISCOVERED TWO NEW SPECIES OF JUMPING SPIDER IN MEGHALAYA.

* ASEMONEA DENTIS 

* COLYTTUS NONGWAR ( NAMED AFTER NONGWAR VILLAGE IN MEGHALAYA) 

* FAMILY BELONGS TO SALTI IDAE 

* THIS IS THE HOST ONLY THIRD SPECIES UNDER THIS GENUS (ASEMONEA) 

* * A NEW ROCK GECKO SPECIES HAS BEEN DISCOVERED BY ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA (ZSI) TEAM AT EASTERN GHAT ( KA DHAMAL), ODISHA.

* SPECIES NAME - KALINGA ROCK GECKO ( HEMIDACTYLUS KALINGA) 

* GENUS - HEMIDACTYLUS 

* SCIENTISTS SAID THIS IS 2ND ENDEMIC HEMIDACTYLUS SPECIES IN ODISHA 

* THIS SPECIES HAS OLIVE BROWN BODY 

* THREE  New Moth Has Been Discovered At Himalaya 

- SPECIES Name - GELECHIA ADI 

- GELECHIA BILOBUNCUSA 

- ISTRIANIS IADAKHENSIS 

- NAMED AFTER - Adi Tribe Of Himalaya 

* Indian RESERCHERS Have REDISCOVERED RANUNCULUS TRICHOPHYLLUS, a Rare Cold Water Aquatic Herb At Wetland Of Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh.

* RESEARCHERS HAVE FOUND A NEW SNAKE HEAD FISH SPECIES IN THE RI - BHOI DISTRICT IN MEGHALAYA 

* SPECIES NAME - CHANNA BHOI 

* IT IS DISTINGUISHED BY IT'S UNIQUE COLOURATION ( A BLUSIH GREY BODY) 

* 8-9 BROKEN HORIZONTAL LINES 

* THE SPECIES EPITHET BHOI HONOURS THE INDIGENOUS BHOI COMMUNITY ( OF MEGHALYA HILL) 

* SCIENTISTS FROM ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA ( ZSI) HAVE DISCOVERED A NEW SPECIES OF COLLEMBOLA COMMONLY KNOWN AS SPRINGTAILS.

* IN EASTERN HIMALAYA, SIKKIM 

* SPECIES NAMED - NEELUS SIKKIMENSIS 

* 

ENVIRONMENT - 

* 70 Butterfly Species Recorded In Last Two Years 

* Praveen Shaikh Has Win The WILDLIFE Service Award 2025

* Anant Ambani Recived The Global Humane Society ANIMAL Welfare Award 

* SUPRIYA SAHU, ADDITIONAL CHIEF SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT OF TAMILNADU HAS RECEIVED THE UN CHAMPION OF THE EARTH AWARD 2025 

* FOR HER CONTRIBUTION IN SUSTAINABLE COOLING & ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION. 

* Farasan Islands Of Saudi Arabia Became The First RAMSAR Sites Notified.

* LAIN DOUGLAS HAMILTON PASSED AWAY 

BORN IN - 16TH AUGUST 1942 

DIED ON - 08TH DECEMBER 2025 

* HE WAS A SCOTTISH ZOOLOGIST, FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY, 

* IN 1993 HE FOUNDED SAVE THE ELEPHANT 

* HIS FIRST' SCIENTIFIC STUDY ON ELEPHANT AT THE AGE OF 23 IN TANZANIA, LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK, 

AWARD - 

* 1988 - THE ORDER OF THE GOLDEN ARK ( For ELEPHANT CONSERVATION) 

* 1992 - THE ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 

* 2015 - COMMANDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 

* 2010 - INDIANPOLIS PRIZE 

* 2006 - DISNEY WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FUND AWARD 

* LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD BY SAN DIEGO 

* HE WAS THE GRANDSON OF ALFRED DOUGLAS HAMILTON (13th DUKE OF HAMILTON) 

* SILISERH LAKE IN ALWAR, RAJASTHAN 

* KOPRA JALASHYA IN CHHATTISGARH 

* TWO NEW RAMSAR SITES HAVE BEEN ADDED BY GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

* INDIA HAS NOW 96 RAMSAR SITES 

BOOKS - 

* HE & HIS WIFE ORIA HAMILTON CO AUTHOR 

- AMONG THE ELEPHANTS (1975) 

- BATTLE OF THE ELEPHANTS (1992) 

- THE TREE WHERE MAN WAS BORN 

* HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP TO CITES FOR MONITORING THE ILLEGAL KILLING OF ELEPHANT (MIKE) IN AFRICA 

* 1982 - IUCN MEMBER FOR AFRICANS ELEPHANT SPECIALIST GROUPS 

* 

HOST - 

*  Nairobi Host The 7th Edition Of UN ENVIRONMENT Assembly ( UNEA-7)

* 

*  Satpura TIGER RESERVE, Madhya Pradesh Has Received The TOFT KAILASH Sankhala Visitor Friendly Wildlife National Park Award 2025.

* India's Resolution At UNEA -7 

* WII - EIACP Has Been Awarded Category A Status 

*  Maharshtra Chief Minister Devendra Pandavis Has Launched The Eco - Friendly Exotic Bird Park Project To Boost Tourism 

*  South Sudan Has Became The New Member Of International Big Cat Alliance 

*  Union Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav Has Attend At The NATIONAL Tiger Conservation Authority ( NTCA) And Project Elephant Meeting At Sunderban, Kolkata.

* NATIONAL Tiger Conservation Authority ( NTCA) Has DECLARED Gujarat A Tiger State After 33 Years.

* 55 Tigers Died in Madhya Pradesh Since 1973 Project TIGER.

JANUARY - 

* Assam Reports Zero Rhino Poaching In 2025. 

* India Loses 165 Tigers in 2025

MADHYA PRADESH - 55 

MAHARASHTRA - 28 

KARNATAKA - 22 

UTTARAKHAND - 18 

ASSAM - 12 

RAJASTHAN -11 

* 

FIRST SIGHT - 

*  Karnataka Records Its First' Sandalwood Leopard 

CROCODILE CENSUS - 

* A Total Of 1858 Salt Water Crocodile Counted in Odisha 

- 531 Hatchling (28.58%)

- 442 Yearlings ( 23.79%)

- 365 Juvenile ( 19.64%)

- 167 Sub Adults - ( 8.99%(

- 353 Adults ( 19%)

NEW SPECIES = 

* * CALAMARIA MIZORAMENSIS, A NEW REED SNAKE SPECIES DISCOVERD IN MIZORAM.

* IT IS BASED ON DNA 

* THIS IS THE NON - VENOMOUS REED SNAKE 

* 

NEW PL\ANT SPECIES - 

'* * HEPTAPLEURUM ANAMUDIANUM, AMRUTH, ROBI & SUJANA, A NEW SPECIES OF ARALIACEAE HAS DISCOVERD IN ANAMUDI HILLS, IDUKKI DISTRICT, KERALA.

* THIS SPECIES DISTINGUISH BY ITS LEAF TAXONOMY.

* 

* RESEARCHERS FROM NAGALAND UNIVERSITY HAVE FOUND A NEW PLANT SPECIES IN PHEK.

* NEW SPECIES - HOYA NAGAENSIS ( NAGAENSIS FROM NAGALAND) & NAGA COMMUNITY 

( FAMILY - APOCYNACEAE) 

* SUB FAMILY - ASCLEPIADOIDEAE 

* THE SPECIES DISCOVERD IN PHEK DISTRICT FOREST IN NAGALAND 

* 

TWO NEW FROG SPECIES - 

* RESEARCHERS FROM DELHI AND HARVARD UNIVERSITY HAVE DISCOVERED TWO NEW FROG SPECIES IN ARUNACHAL PRADESH. ( HERPETOLOGIST DR S D BIJU FROM DELHI UNIVERSITY) 

* LEPTOBRACHIUM SOMANI ( SOMAN'S SLENDER ARMED FROG) 

* LEPTOBRACHIUM MECHUKA ( MECHUKA SLENDER ARMED FROG) 

* THESE TWO SPECIES HAVE DISCOVERED IN LOWER DIBANG VALLEY AND SHI - YOMI DISTRICT 

* 

TWO NEW SNAIL SPECIES - 

* RESEARCHERS FROM EUROPE HAS DISCOVERD THREE NEW GENERA OF SMALL  LAND SNAIL SPECIES FROM HIMALAYA AND MIZORAM. 

* Chamalycaeus Ganeshaiahi 

* Cycloryx Rohiniae ( From Blue Mountain, Mizoram) 

* Dicharax  Umashaankeri, From Blue Mountain, Mizoram 

* NEWLY DISCOVERED SPECIES NAMED IN HONOUR TO TRUSTEE OF ATREE - Rohini Nilekani, R Uma Shaanker, K N Ganeshaiah 

* * RESEARCHERS HAVE DISCOVERED THREE NEW SPECIES OF MUSICAL KATYDIDS IN KASHMIR.

* CONOCEPHALUS USMANII ( Named After Professor Mohd Kamil Usmani) 

* CONOCEPHALUS NAGARIENSIS ( Budagam District) 

* CONOCEPHALUS GANDERBALI ( Named After Ganderbal District) 

* THE TEAM WAS LEAD BY MUZAMIL SYED SHAH FROM ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY, 

* A SMALL CRUSTACEAN HAS BEEN DISCOVERED IN KVARATTI LAGOON IN LAKSHADWEEP ISLANDS 

* A NEW GENUS AND NEW SPECIES 

* FAMILY - LAOPHONTIDAE ( CLASS - COPEPODA) 

* THE SPECIES CRUSTACEAN NAMED - INDIAPHONTE BIJOYI 

* SPECIES NAMED AFTER - A BIJOY NANDAN, Dean Of Faculty Marine Science, Cochin University of Science & Technology ( CUST) 

* A NEW SPECIES OF WORM LIKE CAECILIAN HAS DISCOVERD IN WESTERN GHATS 

* SPECIES NAME - GEGENEOPHIS VALMIKI 

( NAMED AFTER MAHARISHI VALMIKI MANDIR, IN SATARA DISTRICT, MAHARASHTRA) 

* 

* A NEW SPECIES OF GINGER HAS BEEN DISCOVERED IN SIANG VALLEY OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH 

* SPECIES NAME - PARAKAEMPFERIA ALBA 

* RESERCHERS FROM KERALA & TAMILNADU HAVE DISCOVERED TWO NEW SPECIES OF RARE ANT FLIES - FROM DELHI & TAMILNADU.

* TWO NEW SPECIES ARE 

- METADON GHORPADEI ( Picture 1) 

- METADON REEMERI ( Picture 2) 

- SUB FAMILY -  MICRODONTINAE ( Syrphidae) 

* Rare Ghost Orchid REDISCOVERED After 175 Years In Meghalaya.

* A NEW PLANT SPECIES HAS DISCOVERD IN EAST KAMENG DISTRICT IN ARUNACHAL PRADESH ( INDIAN HIMALAYA) 

* SPECIES NAME - STROBILANTHES RITESHII K 

* FAMILY BELONGS TO - ACANTHACEAE) 

* 

* A NEW SPECIES OF WILDFLOWER SPECIES (YELLOW COLOUR) DISCOVERED IN RATNAGIRI DISTRICT, MAHARASHTRA.

* PLANT NAME - LEPIDAGATHIS KONKANENSIS ( KONKON REGION) 

* A GROUP OF BOTANIST FROM PARULEKAR COLLEGE OF ARTS, COMMENCE, SCIENCE, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE SCIENCES, REPUBLIC OF KOREA, AND LOCAL COLLEGE OF MAHARSHTRA DISCOVERED 

* THIS SPECIES IS BRIGHT YELLOW COLOUR, TWO LIPPED BLOSSOM AND VERY SHORT, DENSE FLOWERING HEAD ( MEASURES ABOUT 2 CENTIMETRES)

 

* 

STATE FLOWER - 

* CHANDIGARH DECLARES THE STRIPED TIGER BUTTERFLY AS STATE FLOWER 

* DANAUS GENUTIA ( SPECIES NAME) 

ENVIRONMENT - 

* The Tamilnadu Forest Has Denied Permission To NTPC Tamilnadu Energy Corporation Limited To Conduct Test At The Proposed Upper Bhavani Pumped Storage HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT At Mukhurti National Park 

* Tamilnadu Has Registered A Historic Milestone With The Notification Of 100 New Reserve Forests, Nearly 13,500 Hectares 

*  Madhya Pradesh To Rename The Ratapani Tiger Reserve After Padmashri Archaeologist Dr. Vishnu Sridhar.

* Crocodile Census Held in Odisha ( Similpal) 

84 in 2026 ( 81 in 2025) 

AWARDS - 

* Dr Nobin Raja, A Researchers At ATREE Has Been Awarded With Hasmukh Shah Memorial Award For Ecological Studies 2025.

* * AMERICAN MYCOLOGIST TOBY KIERS WINS THE 2026 TYLER PRIZE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACHIEVEMENT.

* HER WORK ON MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI 

* 

* G Rajkumar, An Eminent ENVIRONMENTALIST Of Kerala Passed Away.

( KNOWN AS KURINJI RAJKUMAR) 

* WHO Led The Role In The Estsblishment Of Kurinjimala Sanctuary 2006) 

( to protect The Rare Neelakurinji Flower In Western Ghat) 

( Meitei Nganu Or Eshing Nganu - The Manipuri Duck Has Been Registered As a Distinct Indigenous Breed In Assam. (By ICAR) 

FIRST MAGH BIHU CENSUS - 

* First Magh Bihu Census Records 2026 

- 111 Bird Species In Chandubi Beel 

* UNION Environment And Climate MINISTER Has Announced The Notification Declaring The Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary As Eco Sensitive Zone 

* The Russian Federation Has Formally Joined As The International Big Cat Alliance 

* Hesarghatta Grassland, In Bengaluru Received The Conservation Reserve Tag.

* Tamilnadu Forest Department Will Conduct A State Wide Raptor Assessment To Map Distribution Of Birds Of Prey.

* Bacillus Subtilis Declared State Microbe Of Kerala.

* Two Days Asian Water Bird Census 2026 To Conduct At Pobitora 

* A 63.5 Lakh Tonne Reserves Of Rare Earth Elements Discovered In Karnataka.

BOOKS - 

*  SHRUBS AND CLIMBERS IN INDIA: A Field Guide Book Author - The Kodaikanal Based Environmentalist PIPA MUKHERJEE 

NEW RAMSAR SITES ADDED - 

* * MINISTRY OF FOREST, CLIMATE ENVIRONMENT HAS ANNOUNCED TO ADD TWO NEW RAMSAR SITES 

* PATNA BIRD SANCTURY IN ETAH, UTTAR PRADESH 

* CHHARI - DHAND IN KUTCH, GUJARAT 

*