Today’s Current Affairs: 8th April 2025 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Day: April 8, 2025
University Grants Commission : In News
University Grants Commission : In News The University Grants Commission (UGC) has notified the “Recognition and Grant of Equivalence to Qualifications Obtained from Foreign Educational Institutions Regulations, 2025”. These regulations were finalised after public feedback on the 2023 draft and aim to provide a transparent, structured, and standardised process for recognising foreign academic qualifications. This […]
River Blindness
River Blindness: Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) study on blackflies offers hope for river blindness control, Researchers worked on four species collected from eight locations in the central Himalayan region A new study by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has introduced DNA barcoding to accurately identify blackfly species—the carriers of Onchocerca volvulus, the parasitic […]
Hadean Protocrust
Hadean Protocrust: A new international study led by Macquarie University, Australia, suggests that the chemical signatures attributed to plate tectonics were already present in the Hadean protocrust. The Hadean protocrust refers to the earliest known crust of the Earth—its outermost solid layer—that formed during the Hadean aeon, the planet’s first geologic era, which began around […]
Long-snouted Vine Snake
Long-snouted Vine Snake: A rare long-snouted vine snake (Ahaetulla longirostris) was rediscovered in Dudhwa Tiger Reserve, Uttar Pradesh during a rhino release operation in the Palia Kheri division. This marks the first recorded sighting in Uttar Pradesh and only the second documented instance in India. The species was previously seen only in Valmiki Tiger Reserve, […]
Semaglutide
Semaglutide: A recent international, multicentre clinical study has found that semaglutide, a medication primarily used to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity, can reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events by 14%. Semaglutide is a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA). It mimics GLP-1, a natural hormone that helps regulate blood sugar and appetite. It […]
Balukhand-Konark Wildlife Sanctuary
Balukhand-Konark Wildlife Sanctuary: A recent study found that dense vegetation in Balukhand-Konark Wildlife Sanctuary, home to spotted deer and blackbucks, has shrunk from 41.8% in 1993 to 37.1% in 2023. Balukhand-Konark Wildlife Sanctuary is located in Puri district, Odisha. It was declared a sanctuary on 23 April 1984. It has an area of 87 sq.km. […]
Woolly Flying Squirrel
Woolly Flying Squirrel: The wildlife wing of Himachal Pradesh Forest Department (HPFD) recently captured the first-ever photographic evidence of the elusive Woolly Flying Squirrel at Miyar Valley in Lahaul and Spiti district. Woolly Flying Squirrel, also known as Western Woolly Flying Squirrel, is one of the rarest and least known mammals in Asia. It is […]
Maternal Mortality 2000-2023 Report
Maternal Mortality 2000-2023 Report: In 2023, India accounted for the second highest maternal deaths globally, tied with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with 19,000 and second only to Nigeria, according to the Trends in Maternal Mortality 2000-2023 report released recently. It is a new report from the United Nations Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group […]
Women and Men in India 2024: Selected Indicators and Data
Women and Men in India 2024: Selected Indicators and Data Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), Government of India, recently released the 26th edition of its publication titled “Women and Men in India 2024: Selected Indicators and Data”. It is published by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), Government of India. It […]
