Project Nanhi Kali was honoured with the Sports for Social Good award at the Sportstar Aces Awards 2026, recognising its long-standing work empowering girls from underserved communities through education and sport.

The award was presented by Nirmala Lakshman, Chairperson of The Hindu Group, and K. C. Vijaya Kumar, Sports Editor of The Hindu. It was received by Sheetal Mehta, Trustee and Executive Director of K.C. Mahindra Education Trust, Swati Srivastava, VP, Partnerships, Project Nanhi Kali and Farida Balsara, Senior VP and Group Head, CSR, Business and Legal Governance. Ten beneficiaries of the programme were also present at the ceremony, a reminder of the young lives the initiative continues to shape.

“We are deeply honoured that Project Nanhi Kali has been recognised alongside icons from the sporting world at the Sportstar Aces Awards 2026,” said Sheetal. “For our girls, football is much more than a sport; it is a powerful platform to build leadership, resilience and the confidence to shape their own futures. Receiving the Sports for Social Good Award is therefore both a rewarding and humbling moment for all of us.”

Jannik Sinner beat Daniil Medvedev in the Indian Wells final 7-6 (6), 7-6 (4), winning seven straight points to rally from a 4-0 deficit in the second-set tiebreak and claim the title without dropping a single set.

The No. 2-ranked Italian beat Medvedev for the ninth time in their last 10 matches to claim his first title at the California desert tournament. Medvedev handed top-seeded Carlos Alcaraz his first loss of the year in the semifinals of the BNP Paribas Open.

Sinner congratulated fellow Italian Kimi Antonelli, who won Formula One's Chinese Grand Prix earlier Sunday.

A tiny crab displaying both male and female biological traits on the same body has been discovered in the Western Ghats. Discovered from the forests of the Silent Valley National Park, this freshwater crab belongs to the species Vela carli and is both male and female at the same time. The dual-sex condition was observed in three crabs found in tree holes in Silent Valley.

Vela carli is an endemic freshwater crab found only in the forests and streams of the Central Western Ghats. The study documents the first instance of gynandromorphy (a rare condition in which individuals exhibit both male and female characteristics) in Vela carli. This phenomenon is rare in crustaceans and has never before been reported in the freshwater crab family Gecarcinucidae, according to the researchers.

The study was carried out by K.S. Anoop Das and K.T. Fahis from the Centre for Conservation Ecology, MES Mampad College, in collaboration with scientist and crab specialist Sameer K. Pati and Purnima Kumari from the Zoological Survey of India. Their findings were recently published in the international journal Crustaceana.

In a stunning display of strength and athletic ability, a female strongwoman has set a new record with Guinness World Records after lifting and throwing 10 men in just 37.44 seconds. The remarkable feat, which has since gone viral online, showcases the athlete's extraordinary power, speed, and technique. In the challenge, the woman had to individually lift each participant and throw them over her shoulder in rapid succession, completing the task within a strict time frame.

According to Guinness World Records officials, the attempt required not only physical strength but also precise coordination and endurance. Each participant had to be lifted safely and thrown using controlled movement to ensure the challenge met official safety standards.

Bharat Tribes Fest 2026 will commence in the national capital on March 18, bringing together tribal artisans, entrepreneurs and cultural performers from across the country.

Organised by the Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED) in collaboration with the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, the festival will be held at Sunder Nursery from March 18 to 30.

Union Minister for Tribal Affairs Jual Oram will inaugurate the festival in the presence of Minister of State for Tribal Affairs Durgadas Uikey and other dignitaries.

The festival, open to the public daily from 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM, aims to showcase the diversity, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of tribal communities through art, handicrafts, handlooms, cuisine and cultural performances.

Uttarakhand government has made special health arrangements for this year’s Char Dham Yatra. The health of pilgrims visiting the Yatra will be monitored in real time through the ‘e-Swasthya Dham’ portal so that medical assistance can be provided immediately when required.

Experienced doctors and paramedical staff will be deployed at permanent and temporary medical units along the pilgrimage routes, major halting points and at all four Dhams. To deal with emergencies, 177 ambulances will be stationed along the Yatra routes, including 108 emergency service ambulances, advanced life support ambulances and cardiac ambulances.

In addition, one boat ambulance will be available in Tehri and a helicopter ambulance will also be deployed, which will be operated through AIIMS Rishikesh. Health Minister Dr. Dhan Singh Rawat said that the response time of ambulances along the Yatra routes will be kept to a minimum so that pilgrims can receive timely medical care.

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati have developed a new material that can generate hydrogen fuel through the electrolysis of water.

Although overall water splitting requires a thermodynamic potential of 1.23 V, this material demonstrates an ultralow Hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) overpotential of only 12 mV, outperforming the commercial Pt/C electrode, thus highlighting its outstanding electrocatalytic performance.

In addition, the same material is also shown to support the desalination of seawater using solar energy.

The findings of this research have been published in the prestigious Advanced Functional Materials journal, in a paper co-authored by Prof PK Giri, Professor, Department of Physics, along with his research scholars, Koushik Ghosh, and Sanjoy Sur Roy, at IIT Guwahati.

Union Minister Piyush Goyal will move a motion in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday seeking permission to withdraw The Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2025, as Parliament continues the second phase of the Union Budget 2026-27 session.

The Bill, originally introduced in 2025, seeks to amend various laws to decriminalise and rationalise minor offences, with the aim of promoting trust-based governance and improving ease of living and doing business. According to the revised List of Business, the withdrawal follows recommendations made by a Select Committee.

India Tourism Development Corporation, under the Ministry of Tourism, in collaboration with the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, has inaugurated a capacity building programme for tribal homestay owners in New Delhi.

The inaugural ceremony was held at Kautilya Hall, Hotel Samrat, marking a step towards strengthening community-based tourism and enhancing the professional capabilities of tribal homestay operators across the country. The programme is designed to improve service standards, enhance visitor experiences and create sustainable livelihood opportunities through structured training delivered by IHM Ashok under ITDC.

The first batch of the programme includes 40 participants from Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Gujarat.

The Indian Navy along with multiple partner nations is participating in Exercise Sea Dragon 2026, a United States Navy-led multinational anti-submarine warfare drill being held at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam throughout March.

The exercise has brought together maritime forces from several partner nations, including the United States Navy, the Royal Australian Air Force, the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force and the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

The multinational is being conducted by the nations to strengthen cooperation among allied forces and improve understanding for better anti-submarine warfare capabilities in the Indo-Pacific region.