Indian Environment Service (IES): The Supreme Court asked the Centre to establish a dedicated Indian Environment Service (IES) at the all-India level. The creation of IES was recommended by a committee headed by former Cabinet Secretary TSR Subramanian in 2014. It will act as an expert group in the public and quasi-governmental sectors over the […]
Category: Current Affairs
Conjugal Rights
Conjugal Rights: A petition challenging the provision allowing restitution (recovery) of conjugal rights under Hindu personal laws (Hindu Marriage act 1955).has been pending in the Supreme Court (SC) for months without a hearing. The petition, titled Ojaswa Pathak vs Union of India, was filed in the SC in February 2019. The case was last heard […]
Ganoderma
Ganoderma: Researchers from Kerala have identified two new species of fungi from the genus Ganoderma that are associated with coconut stem rot. They have also genotyped the two fungi species, named Ganoderma keralense and G. pseudoapplanatum and identified genetic biomarkers. The DNA barcodes have been made publicly available in DNA sequence repositories so that future […]
Pangong Tso: Standoff between India and China
Pangong Tso: Construction of a bridge by China on the Pangong Tso in eastern Ladakh is a latest addition to the ongoing standoff between India and China. It is being built on the north bank of the Pangong Tso and the Chushul sub-sector on the south bank. The site of the bridge is within India’s […]
District Good Governance Index: Jammu and Kashmir
District Good Governance Index: Union home minister Amit Shah recently launched the District Good Governance Index (DGGI) in Jammu and Kashmir, which is the first Union Territory to have such an index. About the index: Launched for 20 districts of Jammu and Kashmir. It has been prepared by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public […]
Kerala Bird Atlas
Kerala Bird Atlas: The Kerala Bird Atlas (KBA), the first-of-its-kind State-level bird atlas in India, has created solid baseline data about the distribution and abundance of bird species across all major habitats, giving an impetus to futuristic studies. Conducted as a citizen science-driven exercise with the participation of over 1,000 volunteers of the birdwatching community, […]
Excavation Work Completed on Sela Tunnel
Sela Tunnel: The final blast for the 980-metre long Sela Tunnel (Tunnel 1) was conducted by Director General Border Roads (DGBR). This marks the culmination of the excavation works on the complete Sela Tunnel Project. The Sela Tunnel Project is located in the West Kameng District of Arunachal Pradesh. Once completed, it will be a […]
Largest Exporter Of Gherkins In The World
Largest Exporter Of Gherkins In The World: India India has emerged as the largest exporter of gherkins in the world. India has crossed the USD 200 million mark of export of agricultural processed product, – pickling cucumber, which is globally referred as gherkins or cornichons, in the last financial year. Gherkins are exported under two […]
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
Non-Fungible Tokens: French luxury fashion brand Hermès is suing American digital artist Mason Rothschild who created the MetaBirkins series of NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens), a rapidly growing part of the cryptoworld. An NFT is a unique, irreplaceable token that can be used to prove ownership of digital assets such as music, artwork, even tweets and memes. […]
Amar Jawan Jyoti
Amar Jawan Jyoti: The government has put out the eternal flame of the Amar Jawan Jyoti underneath India Gate and merged it with the one instituted at the National War Memorial in 2019 a few hundred meters away. The eternal flame at the Amar Jawan Jyoti underneath India Gate in central Delhi was an […]
