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 […]
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District Climate Change Missions
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 […]
First I2U2 (India-Israel-UAE-USA) Leaders Virtual Summit
First I2U2 (India-Israel-UAE-USA) Leaders Virtual Summit: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in the First I2U2 (India-Israel-UAE-USA) Leaders’ Virtual Summit on July 14, 2022 along with his Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid, UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and the US President Joe Biden. The Leaders will discuss the possible joint projects within the framework […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Child Labour
Child Labour: The Centre does not have any data on child labour in the country and a reason for this is the drying up of budgetary provisions meant for the National Child Labour Project (NCLP), which had been monitoring the issue for about three decades. Since the NCLP was merged with the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan […]
Sri Lanka’s Crisis
Sri Lanka’s Crisis: Sri Lanka, a country of 22 million people, is under the grip of an unprecedented economic turmoil, the worst in seven decades, leaving millions struggling to buy food, medicine, fuel and other essentials. Following the political and economic instability, hundreds of anti-government protesters stormed into the Sri Lankan President’s residence demanding his […]
Youth In India 2022 Report
Youth In India 2022 Report: The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has released ‘Youth in India 2022’ Report, which shows that the population share of the youth is starting to decline whereas the share of the elderly is expected to increase during 2021-2036. A sustained drop in fertility has led to an increased […]
