NITI Aayog’s Ambitious Project For Great Nicobar Island: The Environment Appraisal Committee (EAC) – Infrastructure I of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has flagged serious concerns about NITI Aayog’s ambitious project for Great Nicobar Island. The committee has, however, removed the first hurdle faced by the project. It has “recommended” it […]
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Increased Child Marriages In Lockdown
Increased Child Marriages In Lockdown: Some activists and organizations of Karnataka have raised the issue of increased child marriages in Lockdown with the Ministry of Women and Child Development. According to a report published in December 2020 by ChildLine India, the pandemic and the subsequent lockdown have proved to be new drivers of child marriages […]
Covid-19: Make It The Last Pandemic: IPPPR
Covid-19: Make It The Last Pandemic: IPPPR: An independent global panel, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR) in its report named “Covid-19: Make it the Last Pandemic concluded that the catastrophic scale of the Covid-19 pandemic could have been prevented. The report was requested by World Health Organization (WHO) member states in […]
What Is Foam Path?
Foam Path: A medical flight made an emergency belly landing at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai after a wheel of the aircraft separated from its body. Mumbai airport officials sprayed foam on the runway to prevent fire as the Beechcraft VT-JIL aircraft made a belly landing. A foam path is an aviation […]
WAG 12 B Locomotive: Indian Railways
WAG 12 B Locomotive: Indian Railways: Indian Railways inducts 100th 12000 HP WAG 12 B Locomotive The loco is named WAG 12 B with the number 60100. The locomotive is manufactured by Madhepura Electric Locomotive Pvt. Ltd. (MELPL). These locomotives are state-of-the-art IGBT-based, 3 phase drive, and 12000 horsepower electric locomotive. These high horsepower locomotives […]
Facebook’s Oversight Board
Facebook’s Oversight Board: Facebook’s Oversight Board has upheld the social media network’s decision on January 7 to block the then-U.S. President Donald Trump from its platform. The Oversight Board has been set up as an independent body that will help Facebook figure out what content can be allowed on the platform and what ought to […]
The Common Yoga Protocol (CYP)
The Common Yoga Protocol (CYP): The Common Yoga Protocol (CYP) lies at the heart of the International Day of Yoga (IDY) 2021 observation. The Common Yoga Protocol (CYP) is a specified sequence of Yogasanas of 45 minutes duration. It was developed by some of the most accomplished yoga gurus of India in 2015. It was […]
World’s Oldest Water
World’s Oldest Water: World’s Oldest Water Found in Canada Sheds Light on the Beginning of Life. A 2016 study by Canadian geologists is eliciting significant interest, for the clues, it offers in the search for alien life, especially on Mars. The research is based on a discovery made by Dr. Barbara Sherwood Lollar of the […]
My Octopus Teacher: Best Documentary Award At Academy Awards
My Octopus Teacher: The 85-minute documentary feature, My Octopus Teacher, which won the best documentary award at the recently concluded Academy Awards, is about the relationship that developed between a human being and a wild octopus. My Octopus Teacher is a 2020 Netflix Original documentary film directed by Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed, which documents […]
The Maharashtra Civil Services (Declaration of Small Family) Rule of 2005
The Maharashtra Civil Services (Declaration of Small Family) Rule of 2005: A woman officer from the Maharashtra Prison Department was dismissed from service after an inquiry revealed that she violated the Maharashtra Civil Services (Declaration of Small Family) rules because she suppressed the information from the authorities that she has three children The Maharashtra Civil […]
