'This year has seen a series of landslides around the world — from Yunnan in China in January to Papua New Guinea in May that killed more than 2,000 to Sulawesi island in Indonesia and Wayanad i Read More...
'The Odisha government approved a proposal to plant 19 lakh palm trees to ward against the problem of deaths due to lightning strikes, which were designated as a state-specific disaster in 2015. Read More...
'The Supreme Court, permitted sub-classification of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for the purpose of granting separate quotas for those more backward within these communities.' Justice B Read More...
'Budget 2024-25 promised that “a policy for promoting pumped storage projects will be brought out for electricity storage and facilitating smooth integration of the growing share of renewable en Read More...
'In a landmark judgement, a seven-judge Bench of the Supreme Court reframed how the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) quota may operate .' Article 341 of the Constitution allo Read More...
'The Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA), one of the State’s first urban planning and development bodies established as City Improvement Trust Board (CITB) in 1904 during the rule of the M Read More...
'India has been elected as Vice-Chair of the Supply Chain Council — one of the three bodies set up by the 14-member Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) bloc.' India and 13 other IPEF par Read More...
'The insidious nature of lung cancer has made it one of the most formidable public health challenges of our time. Lung cancer was first discovered in the early 1900s in autopsies.' Later advances Read More...
'Experts believe that Iran could hike up attacks against Israel through its allies — a coalition of Iranian-backed groups known as the ‘axis of resistance’. Hezbollah, Hamas, the Pal Read More...
'The Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS) has introduced the Electronic Services e-Health Assistance and Tele-consultation (E-SeHAT) module as of July 30, 2024.' This initiative allows Read More...
