Subhash Chandra Bose Awards For Disaster Management: The Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management (GIDM) and Professor Vinod Sharma, the founder co-ordinator of the National Centre of Disaster Management, have been selected for the Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar for 2022 for their excellent work in disaster management. The GIDM was established in 2012 and […]
Category: Current Affairs
International Counter Terrorism Conference 2022
International Counter Terrorism Conference 2022: The International Counter Terrorism Conference 2022 was organised by the Global Counter Terrorism Council (GCTC). GCTC is an International Think-Tank Council with an overarching mission of reducing the vulnerability of people worldwide to terrorism by preventing, combating and prosecuting terrorist acts and countering incitement and recruitment to terrorism. Earlier, in […]
Environmental Emergency In Peru
Environmental Emergency In Peru: The Peruvian government declared a 90-day “environmental emergency” in damaged coastal territories, after an oil spill that saw 6,000 barrels of crude oil pour into the sea. The spill was caused by freak waves, which resulted from the eruption of a volcano in Tonga. The oil spill came out of a […]
Indian Environment Service (IES)
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 […]
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 […]
