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Tandulwadi Fort

Tandulwadi Fort: Six tourists were recently rescued after they lost their way and got stranded in dense fog while coming down from Tandulwadi Fort in Maharashtra’s Palghar district. Tandulwadi Fort is located near Lalthane village in Palghar district, about 104 km from Mumbai, Maharashtra. The fort dates back 800 years and was primarily used as […]

Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary : In News

Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary: In News A large-scale eviction drive is underway at the Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam’s Nagaon district with the administration clearing alleged encroachments spread across hundreds of bighas of cultivated land. Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary is located on the southern part of the Brahmaputra River in the Nagaon District of Assam. It forms […]

Seabuckthorn : Granted GI Status

Seabuckthorn: Granted GI Status Spiti’s seabuckthorn has been granted the Geographical Indication (GI) status. Seabuckthorn is popularly known as the ‘Wonder Plant’, ‘Ladakh Gold’, ‘Golden Bush’, or ‘Gold Mine’ of cold deserts. It is an important plant of trans-Himalayan region that belongs to the family Elaegnaceae. Sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) is a plant found throughout […]

Medical Innovations Patent Mitra Platform

Medical Innovations Patent Mitra Platform: The National Medical Commission (NMC) has asked all medical colleges and institutions to use the Indian Council of Medical Research’s (ICMR) ‘Medical Innovations Patent Mitra’ platform. Medical Innovations Patent Mitra Platform provides fully government-funded support for patent filing and technology transfer. It aims to support strategic and quality patent filings […]

Radio Telemetry

Radio Telemetry: Radio telemetry data helped conservationists repeatedly protect the radio-tagged White-rumped vulture Z25, but the bird was ultimately killed in a collision with a power transmission line. Radio telemetry involves using radio waves to automatically transmit data from remote or inaccessible sources to a receiving station for monitoring and analysis. It is commonly used […]

Matcha Tea

Matcha Tea: An Assam tea estate sold India’s first commercially-produced matcha tea, marking a significant shift from conventional teas. Matcha is a finely ground green tea powder made from specially processed, shade-grown tea leaves of Camellia sinensis. It originated through cultural exchanges between China and Japan during the premodern period. It developed from earlier powdered […]