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According to a global study, the combined effects of rising heat and humidity will affect India’s northeast the most in the world close to the end of the century, a global study says. Although humidity can greatly magnify the effects of heat, most climate projections tend to leave out this major factor that could worsen things. The new study, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, projects that in coming Read More …
According to a new study Bottlenose dolphins in Panama’s Bocas Del Toro Archipelago are on the verge of extinction. -During the study, the researchers found that there are 80 bottlenose dolphins in Panama’s Bocas Del Toro Archipelago, and they are not interbreeding with Carribean bottlenose dolphins. -The researchers also added that local boat traffic is another factor which negatively affects the survival of these marine creatures. In 2012, the boat Read More …
According to conservationists The Asiatic cheetah which is also known as Iranian Cheetah is on the verge of extinction. Only less than 50 of the critically endangered species still alive. It is the second rarest cat species. -Iran, home to all these cheetah, has already witnessed the extinction of the Asiatic lion and the Caspian tiger. The warning comes in the wake of the United Nation’s decision to pull funding from Read More …
According to the government data, about 239 million people across 153 districts in 21 states drink high levels of arsenic water. – 65% of Assam’s population, or about 21 million people, is drinking arsenic-contaminated water, while it’s 60% in Bihar and 44% in West Bengal. As far as absolute numbers is concerned, Uttar Pradesh has the largest number of people, over 70 million, exposed to arsenic-contaminated water. -The World Health Read More …
Famous academic journal Science Magazine on Dec. 21 declared first observation of a neutron-star merger (Cosmic Convergence) as a ‘Science’s 2017 Breakthrough of the Year’. According to the journal the way the event was spotted, which involved detecting the gravitational waves that the spiraling neutron stars radiated before they merged was especially remarkable. -Those were detected by physicists from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). It is made up of the Read More …
In partnership with State Governments, Department of Rural Development has completed the ranking of 50,000 Gram Panchayats on parameters of physical infrastructure, human development and economic activities. –Mission Antyodaya (Under Union Ministry of Rural Development) is a convergence framework for measurable effective outcomes on parameters that transform lives and livelihoods. Real Difference comes about through Convergence as it alone simultaneously addresses multi dimensions of poverty. Professionals, Institutions and Enterprises make it Read More …
Project name: Ganga Gram Launched by: Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation Launched Date: 23 December, 2017 -The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MDWS) on 23 December, 2017 launched ‘Ganga Gram’ – a project for sanitation based integrated development of all 4470 villages along the River Ganga, at a multi-stakeholder sammelan held at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. -Ganga Gram vision is an integrated approach for holistic development of villages situated Read More …
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources’ (IUCN) in its latest red list of threatened species (which was published in Tokyo in the first week of December 2017)upgraded the status of the two birds of New Zealand Okarito kiwi and the Northern Brown Kiwi from”endangered” to “vulnerable” because of a steady increase in population. -Some 91,523 out of nearly 1.9 million described species have been assessed for the Red List, Read More …
Issue: On 6 December, 2017 United states of America had declared unilaterally Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. But the United Nations general assembly on 21 December, 2017 rejected the proposal of USA by majority vote. -128 members on UN including India voted in favour of the resolution supporting the longstanding international consensus that the status of Jerusalem can only be settled as an agreed final issue in a peace Read More …
What is the issue: Recently BJD MP Bhartruhari Mahtab had raised the issue of the contamination of the Brahmaputra river water. According to him, the contamination may have been caused due to the construction of a dam by China on a tributary of the Brahmaputra. He also demanded that since India is a riparian country hence China is obliged to share all hydro-meteorological data with India. If china fails to do Read More …
