Winter Solstice 2025: The Winter Solstice 2025 occurs on Sunday, December 21 marking the shortest day and longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. On this day many regions experience only eight to nine hours of daylight. While it often goes unnoticed amid holiday celebrations, the winter solstice is a key astronomical event […]
Category: Current Affairs
Operation Hawkeye
Operation Hawkeye: The United States and Jordan have carried out a major military operation in Syria called Operation Hawkeye Strike. This action came after an ISIS attack that killed two US soldiers and wounded three others in the Syrian city of Palmyra. The operation aimed to weaken ISIS by targeting its fighters, weapons, and bases.Operation […]
Jammu & Kashmir Gets Its First Gen Z Post Office
Jammu & Kashmir Gets Its First Gen Z Post Office: Jammu & Kashmir has achieved an important milestone in the modernization of public services with the launch of its first Gen Z Post Office at the AIIMS Vijaypur campus. This initiative reflects the changing approach of Department of Posts towards making postal services more digital, […]
Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund
Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund: In response to a question asked in the Rajya Sabha, the Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying responded that the amount of loan sanctioned under the Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund (AHIDF) is ₹ 10,320 Crores. Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund (AHIDF) is a central sector scheme under the […]
BharatNet Project : In News
BharatNet Project : In News The Minister of State for Communications and Rural Development, in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha recently, said that BharatNet is being implemented in a phased manner to provide broadband connectivity to all Gram Panchayats (GPs). BharatNet Project is an ambitious project of the Government of […]
Battle of Adwa
Battle of Adwa: The Prime Minister of India recently laid a wreath at the Adwa Victory Monument in Addis Ababa, paying tribute to Ethiopia’s historic victory in the 1896 Battle of Adwa. It was fought by the Ethiopian Empire, which was then known as Abyssinia, and Italy in 1896, near Adwa, Ethiopia, as the concluding […]
India Coast Guard Ship (ICGS) Sarthak
India Coast Guard Ship (ICGS) Sarthak: The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) Ship Sarthak, an Offshore Patrol Vessel, recently made a port call at Chabahar, Iran. ICGS Sarthak is the fourth in the series of five Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) being built by Goa Shipyard for the Indian Coast Guard (ICG). These OPVs are multi-mission platforms […]
Global Declaration on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) and Mental Health
Global Declaration on Non communicable Diseases (NCDs) and Mental Health: World leaders at the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a historic global political declaration that jointly addresses non communicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health for the first time. The Global Declaration on NCDs and Mental Health is a political declaration adopted by UN […]
Annatto
Annatto: As informed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the CSIR–Central Food Technological Research Institute (CSIR–CFTRI), Mysuru had undertaken four Grant-in-Aid projects related to the study and development of annatto. It is a natural food colouring and flavoring agent obtained from the seeds of the achiote tree (Bixa orellana), native to the […]
Carbon-based Filter for PFAS Removal from Groundwater
Carbon-based Filter for PFAS Removal from Groundwater: A recent field-based study demonstrates that a specially engineered carbon material can be injected underground to trap and remove PFAS (Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances) from contaminated groundwater, offering a cost-effective, long-term remediation solution for polluted sites Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) are a large family of synthetic chemicals, […]
