Highly Stressed States : RBI Study As per the Recent RBI study, five states -Bihar, Kerala, Punjab, Rajasthan and West Bengal are highly stressed states. Status of states Debt: Punjab: its debt-GSDP ratio is projected to exceed 45 per cent in 2026-27 Rajasthan, Kerala and West Bengal: projected to exceed the debt-GSDP ratio of 35 […]
Burmagomphus Chaukulensis : Rare Dragonfly
Burmagomphus Chaukulensis : Rare Dragonfly A rare dragonfly, Burmagomphus chaukulensis was spotted in Kerala. Earlier, a new species of dragonfly ‘Platygomphus benritarum’ was discovered in Assam. This is a dragonfly of genus Burmagomphus, which is represented by three species – B. Cauvericus, B. Pyramidalis and B. Laidlawi. While B. laidlawi is found throughout the Western […]
Operation Sankalp
Operation Sankalp: Indian Navy’s stealth Frigate, INS Talwar is presently deployed for Op-Sankalp commemorating the 3rd continuous year of Indian Navy’s presence in the Gulf. The Indian Navy has launched ‘Operation Sankalp’ in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman as a measure to assure the safety and security of the Indian vessels. After […]
National Chambal Sanctuary
National Chambal Sanctuary: The Madhya Pradesh government has proposed to open 292 hectares for mining in five stretches on Chambal and its tributary Parvati rivers. The step is taken to free its forest department from devoting too much time, resources, and efforts in fighting illegal mining in the National Chambal Sanctuary. Sand mining has been […]
Summer Solstice: 21st June
Summer Solstice: 21st June 21st June is the day of the Summer Solstice in the northern hemisphere. The day is observed as the International Day of Yoga. Solstice is a Latin word that means ‘stalled sun’. It is a natural phenomenon that occurs twice every year, once in the summer and again during winter, in […]
Ban On Single-Use Plastic
Ban On Single-Use Plastic: The Centre has defined a list of single-use plastic items that will be banned from 1st July 2022. The manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale and use of notified single-use plastic, including polystyrene and expanded polystyrene, commodities shall be prohibited with effect from the 1st July, 2022. It refers to plastic items […]
Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: A group of environmental scientists, ecologists and policy experts have posited that the draft of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework fails to account for the totality of chemical pollutants that threaten ecosystems globally. Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: It is a new framework that will guide actions worldwide through 2030, to […]
Listing Of Terrorist Under UNSC 1267 Committee
Listing Of Terrorist Under UNSC 1267 Committee: India and the US jointly proposed to list Makki, a top LeT (Lashkar-e-Taiba) Militant, under the UN Security Council’s Al-Qaeda and ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) Sanctions Committee which is also known as the UNSC 1267 Committee. But, China, placed a “technical hold” on the […]
12th WTO Ministerial Conference
12th WTO Ministerial Conference: The 12th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) concluded. The key areas of discussions were WTO’s response to the pandemic, Fisheries subsidies negotiations, Agriculture issues including Public Stockholding for Food security, WTO Reforms and Moratorium on Custom Duties on Electronic Transmission. The 164-member World Trade Organization held its first […]
Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant
Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant: Rosatom State Corporation of Russia has supplied the first batches of more reliable and cost-efficient nuclear fuel over the existing one, the TVS-2M nuclear fuel, to India for the Units 1 and 2 of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP). Once the new TVS-2 M fuel is used in the next refuelling, […]
