Four Species Of Azooxanthellate Corals: Scientists have recorded Four Species of Azooxanthellate Corals under the Genus Truncatoflabellum (Scleractinian: Flabellidae) for the first time from Indian waters. Findings: Truncatoflabellum crassum, T. incrustatum, T. aculeatum, and T. irregulare are the four species of corals found. These groups of coral were previously found from Japan to the Philippines […]
Tag: 24th Jun 2022
Rise In Heart Attacks
Rise In Heart Attacks: India’s financial capital Mumbai witnessed a six-fold rise in deaths related to heart attacks in the first six months of 2021 when the city was under the grip of the second wave of Covid-19. Reason: Post-Covid development of thrombosis: SARS-Cov-2 damages the heart and blood vessels in infected patients which leads […]
Ruchira Kamboj: India’s Permanent Representative To The UN
Ruchira Kamboj: India’s Permanent Representative To The UN Ruchira Kamboj has been appointed as the next Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations. She is currently Indian ambassador to Bhutan. Ruchira Kamboj will succeed T S Tirumurti. She is likely to take up assignment soon. Ruchira Kamboj joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1987 […]
Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP)
Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP): The Boris Johnson administration has come up with a new legislation, the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill, which would enable the U.K. to override provisions of the Brexit deal that concern trading arrangements in Northern Ireland the Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP). Northern Ireland is the only part of the U.K. that shares […]
Inter-State Council Meeting
Inter-State Council Meeting: In June 2022, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking that at least three meetings of the Inter-State Council should be held every year to “strengthen the spirit of cooperative federalism”. Inter-State Council is a mechanism that was constituted “to support Centre-State and Inter-State coordination […]
Payment Vision 2025: RBI
Payment Vision 2025: RBI The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has come out with “Payments Vision 2025” with an objective to provide every user with safe, secure, fast, convenient, accessible and affordable e-payment options. Payments Vision 2025 has been prepared by considering the guidance from the Board for Regulation and Supervision of Payment and Settlement […]
Deletion Of 111 Registered Unrecognised Political Parties : Election Commission
Deletion Of 111 Registered Unrecognised Political Parties : Election Commission The Election Commission ordered the deletion of 111 registered unrecognised political parties that it found to be “non-existent” and referred three of the parties to the Department of Revenue for legal action for “serious financial impropriety”. This was the second such action in the recent […]
UNESCO’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize : Central Institute Of Educational Technology
UNESCO’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize : Central Institute Of Educational Technology: Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET) wins UNESCO’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the year 2021. CIET is a constituent unit of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) under Department of School Education & Literacy. CIET has been […]
Twin Deficit Problem
Twin Deficit Problem: The finance ministry in its ‘Monthly Economic Review’ cautioned the re-emergence of the twin deficit problem in the economy, with higher commodity prices and rising subsidy burden leading to an increase in both fiscal deficit and Current Account Deficit (CAD). It’s also the first time the government has explicitly talked about the […]
Manipur’s Keibul Lamjao National Park (KLNP) Residents Oppose The Site’s Relocation
Manipur’s Keibul Lamjao National Park (KLNP) Residents Oppose The Site’s Relocation: People argues that the proposed site has no connection with efforts to save the endangered deer. On the other hand, the people in surrounding villages have been doing everything possible to protect the deer. Keibul Lamjao National Park: It is the only floating National […]
