Oil Spills: A Liberian-flagged cargo vessel carrying hazardous materials, including calcium carbide and diesel, sank off the Kerala coast, raising serious concerns over oil spills. Calcium carbide (CaC2) is a chemical that reacts with seawater to release acetylene gas, which is highly flammable and hazardous.Oil Spills refer to the release of liquid petroleum hydrocarbons into […]
About: Kumari Sonali
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India Becomes World’s 4th Largest Economy
India Becomes World’s 4th Largest Economy: At the 10th NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India) Governing Council Meeting, NITI Aayog CEO announced that India has overtaken Japan to become the world’s 4th largest economy, with its GDP crossing USD 4 trillion.India remains the world’s fastest-growing major economy and is the only country projected to […]
Strengthening Urban Biodiversity
Strengthening Urban Biodiversity: Urban biodiversity is vital for a healthy planet and human well-being but faces severe threats, from habitat loss and climate change. On International Day for Biological Diversity (22nd May), the theme “Harmony with nature and sustainable development” stresses the urgent need to integrate ecological conservation into urban growth. Urban Biodiversity refers to […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 26th May 2025
Today’s Current Affairs: 26th May 2025 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
China is set to launch its Tianwen-2 mission
China is set to launch its Tianwen-2 mission: China is set to launch its Tianwen-2 mission, which aims to survey and sample the near-Earth asteroid 469219 Kamo‘oalewa. Tianwen-2 Mission launch Vehicle : Long March 3B rocket. Launch Site: Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, Sichuan Province, China. Agency: China National Space Administration (CNSA). Objective is Survey and […]
Great Indian Bustard : In News
Great Indian Bustard : In News Radheshyam Pemani Bishnoi, a 28-year-old wildlife conservationist from Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, died in a road accident while on an anti-poaching patrol. He was a flag bearer in the GIB Community Conservation Programme. The Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps) is a large terrestrial bird endemic to the Indian subcontinent. The bird […]
10th Governing Council Meeting of NITI Aayog
10th Governing Council Meeting of NITI Aayog: The 10th Governing Council Meeting of NITI Aayog was recently held in New Delhi, chaired by the Prime Minister, under the theme “Viksit Rajya for Viksit Bharat@2047”. NITI Aayog is the premier policy think-tank of the Government of India, established through a Union Cabinet resolution in January 2015, […]
Debt Recovery Tribunals
Debt Recovery Tribunals: The Department of Financial Services (DFS) under the Ministry of Finance organised a colloquium recently at New Delhi, bringing together Chairpersons of Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunals (DRATs) and Presiding Officers of Debt Recovery Tribunals (DRTs). Debt Recovery Tribunals (DRTs) are quasi-judicial bodies established under the Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and […]
Orans : Supreme Court’s direction
Orans : Supreme Court’s direction Rajasthan has initiated the process for classifying the community-protected ‘Oran’ lands as forests in compliance with the Supreme Court’s direction. Orans are traditional sacred groves found in Rajasthan. They are patches of forests dedicated by villagers to different deities as a socio-religious tradition and managed by the rural communities. Orans […]
COVID-19 variant NB.1.8.1
COVID-19 variant NB.1.8.1: One case of the newly emerging COVID-19 variant NB.1.8.1 and four instances of the LF.7 type have been detected in India, according to Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) data. INSACOG was established by the Government of India in December 2020. It was jointly initiated by the Union Ministry of Health, and the […]
