India will host the 28th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC) in New Delhi from 15–16 January 2026, bringing together parliamentary leaders from over 60 Commonwealth countries.Chaired by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the conference will focus on strengthening parliamentary democracy, with key discussions

MeitY inaugurated PARAM SHAKTI, an indigenously built supercomputing facility at IIT Madras on January 3, 2026, powered by PARAM RUDRA system developed by C-DAC under the National Supercomputing Mission. The facility delivers peak performance of 3.1 petaflops, enabling over 3.1 quadrillion calculations per second for advanced research applications. PARAM SHAKTI will support research in aerospace

India’s first fully paperless district court was inaugurated in Kalpetta, Wayanad, Kerala, on January 6, 2026, by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, achieving complete digitization of judicial processes from case filing to judgment using in-house developed systems, AI tools, and digital signatures to enhance efficiency, transparency, and access to justice. Key highlights:

India has achieved a historic global milestone by becoming the first country in the world to commercially produce bio-bitumen for use in road construction, representing a transformative step toward sustainable highways.Announcement made by Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari at the CSIR Technology Transfer Ceremony in New Delhi; CSIR (Council of Scientific