Union Budget 2023-24: Highlights The Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2023-24 in Parliament. Budget Estimates 2023-24: The total receipts other than borrowings are estimated at Rs 27.2 lakh crore and the total expenditure is estimated at Rs 45 lakh crore. The net tax receipts are estimated […]
Tag: 2nd Feb 2023
Ukraine’s Odesa : UNESCO’s World Heritage In Danger
Ukraine’s Odesa : UNESCO’s World Heritage In Danger The World Heritage Committee decided to add the historic centre of Ukraine’s Black Sea port city of Odesa to its list of World Heritage sites. This decision recognizes the extraordinary universal value of the site and the duty of all humanity to protect it. The Historic Centre […]
iCET Initiative
iCET Initiative: India’s National Security Advisor hold talks with the US counterpart on the first dialogue on Initiative for Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET) in the US. Completing the work on the long-awaited NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) earth observation satellite is an excellent example of how the US-India partnership in space can benefit the […]
NASA’s Perseverance Rover : First Sample Depot
NASA’s Perseverance Rover : First Sample Depot NASA’s Perseverance rover recently completed the first “sample depot on another world” by dropping the tenth and final sample tube. The tube will be part of a depot that will be considered for the return to Earth as part of the Mars Sample Return Campaign. Perseverance rover is […]
Yaya Tso Lake : Ladakh’s First Biodiversity Heritage Site
Yaya Tso Lake : Ladakh’s First Biodiversity Heritage Site Yaya Tso Lake was declared Ladakh’s first biodiversity heritage site under the Biological Diversity Act. The Biodiversity Management Committee, the panchayat of Chumathang village, along with the SECURE Himalaya Project recently resolved the issue and declared Yaya Tso Lake a biodiversity heritage site. Lake Yaya Tso […]
Red-headed vulture : Spotted In The Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary
Red-headed vulture : Spotted In The Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary The Red-headed vulture was spotted in the Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary. Red-headed vulture is one of the 9 species of Vulture which are found in India It is also called the Asian King vulture or Pondicherry Vulture was extensively found in India but its numbers […]
Turnersuchus hingleyae : Fossils Of The ancient Marine Crocodile
Turnersuchus hingleyae : Fossils Of The ancient Marine Crocodile Palaeontologists have recently discovered fossils of the ancient ‘marine crocodile Turnersuchus hingleyae. Turnersuchus hingleyae: The fossils uncovered on the Jurassic Coast in the United Kingdom include part of the head, backbone, and limbs of Turnersuchus hingleyae. Its age dates back to the early Jurassic, Pliensbachian period, […]
110th Birth Anniversary Of Amrita Sher-Gil
110th Birth Anniversary Of Amrita Sher-Gil: The National Gallery of Modern art in association with Liszt Institute, Hungarian Cultural Centre, New Delhi celebrated the 110th birth anniversary of Amrita Sher-Gil. Amrita was an Indian-Hungarian painter and one of the avant-garde women artists. Though her art education was from Paris, she has discovered the artistic traditions […]
Economic Survey For 2022-23: Highlights
Economic Survey For 2022-23: Finance Minister recently tabled the Economic Survey for 2022-23 in the Lok Sabha. The Economic Survey 2022-23 highlighted that India’s economic recovery from the pandemic is complete and the economy is expected to grow in the range of 6% to 6.8% in the coming financial year 2023-24. Highlights of Economic Survey […]
