What Is An Urban Heat Island? Several parts of the country are reeling under heat wave conditions. Cities, especially, are a lot hotter than rural areas. This is due to a phenomenon called an “urban heat island”. An urban heat island is a local and temporary phenomenon experienced when certain pockets within a city experience […]
Bird Count India
Bird Count India: Uttarakhand reported the highest number of bird species, at 293, while the highest number of checklists (lists of birds seen and heard by birdwatchers), at 192, was uploaded from Jammu & Kashmir, according to the primary report from birdwatchers in the Himalayan regions of India, Nepal and Bhutan. Bird Count India […]
Malviya Mission
Malviya Mission: Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan pitched in with an idea of a “Malviya Mission” to develop enabling ecosystem across the country for teacher education/faculty development. Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861 – 1946) was an Indian educationist and a Freedom Fighter. He was conferred the title of ‘Mahamana’ by Mahatma Gandhi. During his […]
La Reunion Island
La Reunion: The navies of India and France recently conducted their second joint patrolling in the French island of La Reunion in the South-Western Indian Ocean. Objective: To demonstrate “joint surveillance and patrolling operations” capabilities. La Reunion: is an island in the Indian Ocean that is an overseas department and region of France. It is […]
XV World Forestry Congress
XV World Forestry Congress: The Seoul Forest Declaration was an outcome of the discussions held at the recently concluded XV World Forestry Congress in Seoul, South Korea. This was the second congress held in Asia, with Indonesia hosting the first Congress in Asia in 1978. Outcomes of XV World Forestry Congress: The Assuring the Future […]
India’s First 5G Testbed
India’s First 5G Testbed: Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently opened India’s first 5G testbed, which will allow start-ups and industrial companies to test their products locally, eliminating reliance on international facilities. He added during the occasion that India’s own 5G standard, 5Gi, was a source of great pride for the country and that it will […]
Integration Of e-Shram Portal With One Nation One Ration Card Scheme
Integration Of e-Shram Portal With One Nation One Ration Card Scheme: The centre is in the process of integrating the e-Shram portal of the Ministry of Labour and Employment with the One Nation One Ration Card scheme. A comparison of the location data with permanent address data on e-Shram shall help identify migrant workers within […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 18th May 2022
Today Current Affairs: 18th May 2022 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Thomas Cup 2022: Winner
Thomas Cup 2022: India’s men’s badminton team won the Thomas Cup title for the first time ever. India have defeated the 14-time champions Indonesia. The tournament was held in Bangkok (Thailand). Thomas Cup, trophy signifies the world supremacy in the sport of badminton. It is a 16-nation team event. The cup was donated in 1939 […]
Food Inflation
Food Inflation: Food prices around the world have soared to record levels this year as the Russia-Ukraine war slashes key exports of wheat and fertiliser from those countries, at the same time as droughts, floods and heat fuelled by climate change claim more harvests. The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s food price index has shown a […]
