Palmking : Rare Butterfly Sighted In Tamil Nadu The rare butterfly Palmking (Amathusia phidippus) was sighted for the first time in Tamil Nadu. It is the 321st species of butterfly found in Tamil Nadu among the 1,500 species in India. Palmking was first recorded in South India by British scientist H.S.Ferguson in 1891. More than […]
Category: Current Affairs
Lynching a Federal Hate Crime : US
Lynching a Federal Hate Crime : US U.S. President Joe Biden has signed a bill into law to make lynching a federal hate crime, more than 100 years after such legislation was first proposed. The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act is named after the Black teenager whose killing in Mississippi in the summer of 1955 became […]
What Are Flexible Fuel Vehicles (FFVs)?
What Are Flexible Fuel Vehicles (FFVs)? The Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) has called for a faster launch of flex-fuel vehicles (FFVs) to achieve 20 per cent of ethanol blending. An FFV is a modified version of vehicles that could run both on gasoline and doped petrol with different levels of ethanol blends. FFVs will […]
Sabka Vikas Mahaquiz Series
Sabka Vikas Mahaquiz Series: MyGov under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is organising the Sabka Vikas Mahaquiz Series, which is part of an outreach effort to build awareness in citizens. The quiz aims to sensitise the participants about the various schemes and initiatives and how to avail the benefits. This quiz has been […]
Exemption Of Customs Duty On Cotton Import
Exemption Of Customs Duty On Cotton Import: Government has exempted the import of cotton from customs duties from today to 30th of September this year. Ministry of Finance has issued a notification in this regard saying that the exemption on cotton import will come into effect from 14th April and remain in force till 30th […]
UNDP Climate Action Grants
UNDP Climate Action Grants: USD 2.2 million in climate action funding has been announced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and partners of the Adaptation Innovation Marketplace (AIM) for 22 local innovators from 19 countries, that also includes India. The first round of funding of the Adaptation Fund Climate Innovation Accelerator (AFCIA) window will […]
India Has Been Elected To The United Nations Economic And Social Council’s (ECOSOC) Four Major Bodies
India Has Been Elected To The United Nations Economic And Social Council’s (ECOSOC) Four Major Bodies: India has been elected to the United Nations Economic and Social Council’s (ECOSOC) four major bodies, including the Commission on Science and Technology for Development. To the Committee for Economic, Social and Cultural Right, Ambassador Preeti Saran has been […]
Modernisation Of Prisons Project
Modernisation Of Prisons Project: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued guidelines to states and Union Territories asking them to Modernize Prisons under the Modernisation of Prisons Project. The Government of India has decided to provide financial assistance to States and UTs, through the Project for using modern-day security equipment in Prisons for: To […]
Human Rights Report On India 2021: US
Human Rights Report On India 2021: US The US State Department released a strong and critical report on human rights in India in 2021. The report is submitted each year to the US Congress which is retrospective and contains a country-wise discussion of the state of internationally recognised individual, civil, political and worker rights, as […]
Waterways Conclave 2022
Waterways Conclave 2022: The Waterways Conclave 2022 was organized by the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) on 11th and 12th April 2022 in Dibrugarh, Assam. The aim of this conclave was to focus on harnessing the potential of the international and domestic waterway ecosystem in the country’s North-eastern region. The industry partner of this […]
