District Climate Change Missions: The Tamil Nadu government has established District Climate Change Missions in all 38 districts. The missions will be headed by the Collectors as Mission Directors. The District Forest Officers will function as Climate Officers. The missions will help strengthen the government’s climate response at the grassroots, said Supriya Sahu, Additional Chief […]
India Has Achieved Clean Energy Targets
India Has Achieved Clean Energy Targets: India has achieved clean energy targets nine years ahead of schedule, Union Power Minister R.K. Singh said at the Sydney Energy Forum in Sydney. India has installed 162 GW (1 GW is 1,000 MW) of renewable energy capacity, which is 41% of the 402 GW of electricity installed. “We […]
Global Gender Gap Index, 2022
Global Gender Gap Index, 2022: India ranks 135 among a total of 146 countries in the Global Gender Gap Index, 2022, released by the World Economic Forum. In 2021, India ranked 140 out of 156 nations. The country is the worst performer in the world in the “health and survival” sub-index in which it is […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 14th July 2022
Today Current Affairs: 14th July 2022 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
James Webb Space Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope: NASA unveiled images from the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most powerful orbital observatory ever launched. The pictures, designed to peer farther than before with greater clarity to the dawn of the universe, were hailed by NASA as milestone marking a new era of astronomical exploration. Nearly two decades […]
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ)
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ): As of today, the most sensitive dark matter detector experiment in the world is LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) in South Dakota in the U.S. Many physicists strongly believe that the entire visible part of the universe forms only 5% of all matter in it. They believe the rest is made up of dark matter and […]
World Population Report
World Population Report: India is set to surpass China as the world’s most populous country in 2023, with each counting more than 1.4 billion residents this year, a United Nations report said, warning that high fertility would challenge economic growth. The world’s population, estimated to reach 8 billion by November 15 this year, could grow […]
The Impact Of Inflation On India’s Poor
The Impact Of Inflation On India’s Poor: The impact of inflation on India’s poor would be negligible as per a United Nations Development Programme report on ‘Addressing the Cost of Living Crisis in Developing Countries’, which also looked at the ripple effects of the Russia-Ukraine war such as energy and food market disruptions. While soaring […]
Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF)
Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF): High Crude Oil prices have been advantageous for the countries to invest through their Sovereign wealth funds. Six of the top 10 countries by SWFs are oil-rich economies. A sovereign wealth fund is a state-owned investment fund comprised of the money generated by the government, often derived from a country’s surplus […]
New Insights Involved In The Movement Of The Earth’s Tectonic Plates
New Insights Involved In The Movement Of The Earth’s Tectonic Plates: A recent study by a team of scientists at Goa-based National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR) has brought new insights into the critical processes involved in the movement of the earth’s tectonic plates. The buoyant rising of hot and low-density magma or […]
