e-DAR Portal: The Ministry of Roads, Transport and Highways (MoRTH) developed the portal named ‘e-DAR’ (e-Detailed Accident Report). The portal provides instant information on road accidents and helps accelerate accident compensation claims, bringing relief to victims’ families. Road safety continues to be a major developmental issue, a public health concern and a leading cause of […]
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Bernardinelli-Bernstein Comet
Bernardinelli-Bernstein Comet: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Hubble Space Telescope has confirmed that the huge Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet is indeed the largest icy comet nucleus ever seen by astronomers. The nucleus is called the C/2014 UN271 which has an estimated diameter of almost 129 kilometres. The nucleus is around 50 times larger than that […]
South Asia Economic Focus: World Bank
South Asia Economic Focus: World Bank The World Bank in its report South Asia Economic Focus (Bi- Annual) cut its economic growth forecast for India and the whole South Asian region. South Asia Economic Focus describes recent economic developments, analyses the economic impact on South Asia of the war in Ukraine, presents growth forecasts, provides […]
Tribute To Veer Kunwar Singh
Tribute To Veer Kunwar Singh: The Government will pay tribute to freedom fighter Veer Kunwar Singh (1777-1858) on his birth anniversary (23rd April). He belonged to a family of the Ujjainiya clan of the Parmar Rajputs of Jagdispur, currently a part of Bhojpur district, Bihar. He was the chief organiser of the fight against the […]
The Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill, 2021
The Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill, 2021: The Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill, 2021 after being introduced in Lok Sabha was later referred to the Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment, Forests and Climate Change. The panel has recently recommended the Central Government not to encourage sale and purchase of captive elephants. Section 43 […]
First Long Range Forecast (LRF) For 2022 : IMD
First Long Range Forecast (LRF) For 2022 : IMD The India Meteorological Department (IMD) released its first Long Range Forecast (LRF) for 2022 which says that the country is likely to receive a normal monsoon for the fourth consecutive year. While forecasting a ‘normal’ southwest monsoon for this year, IMD also revised downwards the definition […]
Neptune: Anti-Ship Cruise Missile
Neptune: Anti-Ship Cruise Missile Ukraine claimed that it has damaged the Russian Black Sea Fleet Flagship ‘Moskva’ by Neptune Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles. The Neptune is a coastal anti-ship cruise missile that is capable of the destruction of naval vessels in a range of 300 km. The Missile system was inducted into the Ukrainian Defence Forces […]
Palmking : Rare Butterfly Sighted In Tamil Nadu
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 […]
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 […]
