PD1 Therapy For Cancer: In a medical trial in the USA, 12 patients were completely cured of rectal cancer without requiring any surgery or chemotherapy. The trial used a monoclonal antibody dostarlimab every three weeks for six months for the treatment of a particular kind of stage two or three rectal cancer. The study was […]
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Unified Geologic Map Of The Moon
Unified Geologic Map Of The Moon: The United States Geological Survey (USGS) in partnership with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Lunar Planetary Institute has released a new comprehensive map of the Moon, called the ‘Unified Geologic Map of the Moon’. The new map showcases the Moon in a 1:50,00,000-scale size, and is […]
Growing Demand For Lithium
Growing Demand For Lithium: With the EV industry growing rapidly, the demand for lithium, an essential resource for EV battery makers, has surged along. It is estimated that if the entirety of ore from the African mines are extracted, it will be sufficient to meet the demand for at least 27.78 million vehicles with 60 […]
Survey To Count Elephants And Big Cats
Survey To Count Elephants And Big Cats: The government of India, for the first time this year, will present a unified count of the tiger, leopard and elephant populations of the country. Given that 90% of the area occupied by elephants and tigers is common, and once estimation methods are standardised, having a common survey […]
Jan Samarth Portal
Jan Samarth Portal: Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged bank chiefs to make it easier for people to get loans through the new Jan Samarth portal, a repository of a dozen credit-linked government schemes. He said the new portal would make life easier for farmers, students and entrepreneurs as they could assess which scheme worked best […]
Etalin Hydro Power Project
Etalin Hydro Power Project: Wildlife scientists and conservationists in Arunachal Pradesh flagged threats to local biodiversity from the proposed Etalin hydroelectric (3,097 MW) project in Dibang Valley. To raise the issue,they approached the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) under the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC). WildLIfe Institute of India (WII) and the […]
Environment Performance Index 2022
Environment Performance Index 2022: In the recently released Environment Performance Index-2022, India was at the bottom among 180 The Environment Performance Index (EPI) is an international ranking system that measures environmental health and sustainability of countries. The EPI, a biennial index, was started in 2002 as Environmental Sustainability Index by the World Economic Forum in […]
Food Safety Index: FSSAI
Food Safety Index: FSSAI: On the occasion of World Food Safety Day, the Union Health Minister released Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)’s 4th State Food Safety Index (SFSI) to measure the performance of States across five parameters of food safety. Overall: Tamil Nadu topped the State Food Safety Index followed by Gujarat […]
Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG)
Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG): External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar recently said that India looks forward to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) by overcoming political impediments. The 48-member NSG is an elite club of countries that deals with the trade-in nuclear technology and fissile materials besides contributing to the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. Brought in […]
Job Charnock
Job Charnock: Recent archaeological excavations in Kolkata have provided further evidence of human habitation in the city from centuries before the time British administrator Job Charnock was said to have founded the city. Charnock worked for the East India Company. He was historically been credited with founding the city in 1690 when the Company was […]
