Eucalyptus : Government Order The Kerala government issued an order allowing the Kerala Forest Development Corporation (KFDC) to plant eucalyptus trees for its financial sustenance in 2024-2025. Environmentalists soon protested the decision saying the move would adversely affect forests and heighten human-animal conflicts in future. In 2021, the State government had published an eco-restoration […]
Month: May 2024
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 28th May 2024
Today’s Current Affairs: 28th May 2024 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Mundra Port
Mundra Port: Adani Group’s Mundra Port recently saw the largest ever container ship to dock at an Indian port when the almost 400-metre-long MSC Anna came visiting. Mundra Port is the largest private port and the largest container port in India It is located on the north shores of the Gulf of Kutch, near Mundra, […]
National Green Hydrogen Plant : Vijaipur, Madhya Pradesh’s
National Green Hydrogen Plant : Vijaipur, Madhya Pradesh’s State-run GAIL (India) Ltd. recently inaugurated its first 10 MW Green Hydrogen Plant under the National Green Hydrogen Mission in Madhya Pradesh’s Vijaipur. National Green Hydrogen Mission was approved by the Union Cabinet on January 4, Aim is to make India a Global Hub for the production, […]
First Woman From The Nyishi Tribe To Scale Mt. Everest
First Woman From The Nyishi Tribe To Scale Mt. Everest: Mountaineer and cricketer Kabak Yano etched her name in history recently by becoming the fifth woman from Arunachal Pradesh and the first woman from the Nyishi tribe to scale Mt. Everest. Nyishi Tribe are the largest ethnic group in Arunachal Pradesh. In Nishi, their traditional […]
India’s Top Trading Partners
India’s Top Trading Partners: India has recorded a trade deficit, the difference between imports and exports, with nine of its top 10 trading partners in 2023-24, according to official data. China has emerged as India’s largest trading partner with $118.4 billion of two-way commerce in 2023-24, surpassing the US. The bilateral trade between India and […]
Fourth International Conference On Small Island Developing States
Fourth International Conference On Small Island Developing States: The Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS-4) will be convened from May 27-30, 2024. Small Island Developing States (SIDS): These are a distinct group of 39 States and 18 Associate Members of United Nations regional commissions that face unique social, economic and environmental vulnerabilities. […]
DD Kisan Deployed Two Artificial Intelligence Anchors
DD Kisan Deployed Two Artificial Intelligence Anchors: DD Kisan deployed two Artificial Intelligence anchors as part of the initiative to present the television channel in a new avatar The anchors have been named as ‘AI Krish’ and ‘AI Bhoomi’, and can speak in 50 Indian and foreign languages. These news anchors are computers, which are […]
Grand Prix prize : All We Imagine As Light
Grand Prix prize : All We Imagine As Light Indian director Payal Kapadia’s debut film “All We Imagine As Light” won the Grand Prix prize All We Imagine As Light is an Indo-French production about a nurse, Prabha, and her friend, Anu, who embark on a transformative road trip. Kapadia’s previous documentary, A Night of […]
First Global Mangrove Assessment
First Global Mangrove Assessment: The first global mangrove assessment by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), warns of the imminent collapse of South India’s mangrove ecosystems due to pollution, deforestation, and coastal development. Unlike the ecosystems in western and eastern India, those in the south are highly vulnerable to collapse, threatened further by […]
