Climate Change increases risk of releasing Toxic Mercury in Arctic Region Permafrost, the Arctic’s frozen soil, acts as a massive ice trap that keeps carbon stuck in the ground and out of the atmosphere, where,…
India successfully test fires Brahmos India successfully test-fired the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, which is capable of carrying a warhead of 300 kg, from a test range along the Odisha coast. The cruise missile was…
ISRO Experimental Nano Twin Satellites Stabilize in Space The two nano satellites of ISRO that had caused problems since being launched on February 15 on a PSLV workhorse rocket have stabilized. The INS 1A and…
Mahabaleshwar Sail’s Hawthan, a Konkani novel bags the Saraswati Samman Award Hawthan, which came out in 2009, is a work of fiction based on research into the lives of the Kumbars from Cancona taluk of…
National Crime Records Bureau celebrates its 32nd Inception Day NCRB trained more than 40,000 Police Officers so far and Director General, Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) Smt. Archana Ramasundaram was the Chief Guest at the 32nd…
Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2016 passed in the Parliament The Bill seeks to increase maternity leave available to working women from the current 12 weeks to 26 weeks for the first two children The Lok…
Change in No-Detention Policy – Right to Education Act Section 16 of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 stipulates that ‘No child admitted in a school shall be held…
India and G4 members seek permanent seats in reformed Security Council India and other members of the G4 i.e. Brazil, Germany and Japan which which lobbies for Council reforms have decided to mutually support each…
The world is facing its greatest humanitarian crisis since 1945according to United Nations Official. The U.N. Security Council was briefed that that more than 20 million people across four countries in Africa and the Middle…
Government to set up E-Health Records Government has approved a scheme to create Electronic Health Records of patients as per information rendered to Lok Sabha. An Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP) to create the EHRs…