The Global Nitrous Oxide Budget 2024: According to a new study by the Global Carbon Project (GCP) titled, “Global Nitrous Oxide Budget (1980-2020)”, the emissions of nitrous oxide have been rising continuously between 1980 and 2020. A study found that in 2021 and 2022, nitrous oxide was released into the air faster than ever before, […]
Category: Current Affairs
Fintech Companies : Leading India’s Start-up Ecosystem
Fintech Companies : Leading India’s Start-up Ecosystem Fintech Companies continue to be an attractive option for entrepreneurs in the Start-Up ecosystem. As per the data from Tracxn (a company that provides market intelligence data for private companies), fintechs have received over 15% of the total equity funding into start-ups in FY24 so far. Fintech, a […]
Greater Spotted Eagles
Greater Spotted Eagles: A recent report revealed that the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine has forced greater spotted eagles, a large raptor species, to change their migratory paths. It is a member of the subfamily Aquilinae, commonly known as “booted eagles”. It was once classified as a member of the genus Aquila, but has been reclassified […]
Volkhov River : In News
Volkhov River : In News Four medical students from Maharashtra studying at a university in Russia drowned in the river Volkhov near St. Petersburg. The Volkhov River is in northwestern Russia. It flows from Lake Ilmen, passes through Novgorod, and goes north-northeast into Lake Ladoga through a flat, swampy area. In the town of Volkhov, […]
Soil Health Scheme : Tamil Nadu
Soil Health Scheme : Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin started the “Chief Minister’s Mannuyir Kaathu Mannuyir Kaappom” plan, which was a big step toward sustainable farming in Tamil Nadu. With a strong budget of ₹206 crore, this project aims to improve the health and fertility of the soil across the area. A key part […]
High Seas Biodiversity Treaty
High Seas Biodiversity Treaty: Grethel Aguilar, the director general of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), urged countries worldwide “to strive for a fully functional High Seas Biodiversity Treaty”. The high seas are those areas of the world’s oceans that are outside national jurisdictions. They constitute a huge chunk of the world’s oceans […]
CRISPR/Cas9 : Study
CRISPR/Cas9 : Study Researchers recently used CRISPR/Cas9 to alter photosynthesis for the first time. CRISPR, short for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a gene-editing technology that can be used to alter the genetic sequence of a specific gene by removing, adding, or altering sections of the DNA sequence. It makes it possible to […]
Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Emissions
Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Emissions: Planet-warming nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions grew by 40 percent between 1980 and 2020, according to a new report published by the Global Carbon Project. Nitrous Oxide (N2O) commonly known as laughing gas or happy gas, is a colorless, odorless, and non-flammable While nitrous oxide is not flammable, it will support combustion […]
Sarod maestro Pandit Rajeev Taranath : Passed Away
Sarod maestro Pandit Rajeev Taranath : Passed Away Sarod maestro Pandit Rajeev Taranath, who was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Mysuru, passed away recently. Sarod is a stringed instrument in the lute family and one of the most popular instruments in Hindustani classical music. It is often accompanied by the tabla (drums) and […]
Notified Disasters
Notified Disasters: The ongoing spell of extreme heat in many parts of the country has once again reopened discussions on the inclusion of heatwaves as one of the notified disasters under the Disaster Management (DM) Act, 2005. The Disaster Management Act, 2005, defines a disaster as a “catastrophe, mishap, calamity or grave occurrence” arising from […]
