31 August 2026

The mission launched at 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The ground control team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, began receiving telemetry data from Roman seven minutes after launch.

The Falcon Heavy rocket performed as expected, separating from the observatory 31 minutes into the flight.

A CAG audit found India’s Green India Mission achieved only around 5% of its afforestation target and missed more than 97% of its ecosystem-restoration goal, citing poor planning and weak monitoring.

Convergence funding largely failed to materialise, leaving billions in direct central contributions over a decade.

States misreported plantation data and neglected ecologically vulnerable landscapes like grasslands and scrublands, while almost no carbon sequestration assessments were conducted nationwide.

RBI issued directions to Ashok Sahakari Bank Ltd., Ahmednagar under the Banking Regulation Act.

A study from Jharkhand’s Mahuadanr Wolf Sanctuary found that wolf attacks on livestock occurred most likely at night and early morning, during winter and early summer, and near forest edges.

A new study has now identified when, where and why wolves are most likely to attack livestock, providing insights that could help reduce conflict while also supporting conservation.

To further ensure the accuracy of the data, only respondents who could correctly identify an Indian grey wolf from photographs of similar-looking carnivores were included in the survey.

CISA added CVE-2019-1068, affecting Microsoft SQL Server, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Microsoft SQL Server contains a remote code execution vulnerability that could allow an attacker to execute code in the context of the SQL Server Database Engine service account.

The catalog lists 2026-08-29 as the due date; that date had passed by this edition.

CISA added CVE-2026-73570, affecting Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) contains an OS command injection vulnerability which could allow an unauthenticated attacker to send specially crafted SMTP requests that may result in execution of arbitrary operating system commands as the Zimbra user.

The catalog lists 2026-08-24 as the due date; that date had passed by this edition.

Macron approved the high school phone ban this month after another measure he had hoped would be a key legacy, his proposed social media ban for under-15s, was knocked back as unconstitutional.

The text of the social media ban is being rewritten in the hope it can be pushed it through before Macron leaves office in May.

In order to enforce the hurriedly signed-off ban, high schools must amend their rules – a lengthy process – and many schools have said they will struggle to implement the measure swiftly.

Nearly 20 people are still missing after a ferry capsized ⁠off northern Cyprus, killing at least eight, as divers join search teams scouring deep waters for ⁠any survivors.

The ferry ran into trouble shortly ⁠after leaving Kyrenia for the Turkish port of Taşucu in ​Mersin province, ​one of several daily sea shuttle ​links between Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus and mainland Turkey.

Separate accounts said the wide-bodied ​vessel jolted violently before ‌slamming on to ​the sea ​surface, with part of its bow bursting open on impact.