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Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi inaugurated Anjuman-I-Islam’s UPSC Academy (AIUPSC), a Residential Coaching Programme for Civil Services and other Govt. Examinations, in Mumbai on April 2. Meant specially for students and candidates belonging to the Muslim community, the Read More …
The National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL) has indigenously developed six new and rare Reference Materials (RMs), which is the purest form of chemical required for anti-doping analysis in all WADA-accredited Laboratories across the world. The six RMs have been developed Read More …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Nepalese counterpart Sher Bahadur Deuba on April 2 jointly flagged off the 35-kilometer long cross-border passenger train services between Jaynagar of Bihar in India and Kurtha in Nepal. They also jointly inaugurated Solu Corridor Read More …
Researchers have uncovered giant “mysterious” megalithic jars in Assam that may have been used for ancient human burial practices. The 65 sandstone jars, which vary in shape and size, were found scattered over four sites. Some of the jars are Read More …
The government has approved setting up of seven PM Mega Integrated Textile Region and Apparel (PM MITRA) Parks in Greenfield and Brownfield sites. PM MITRA aims at developing world-class infrastructure including plug and play facilities with an outlay of four Read More …
The National Commission for Women launched an Anti-Human Trafficking Cell on April 2, 2022. Salient features of Anti-Human Trafficking Cell It aims to improve effectiveness in tackling cases of human trafficking, raising awareness among women and girls, capacity building and Read More …
While delivering the 19th D.P. Kohli Memorial Lecture, organised by the CBI, Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana called for an independent umbrella agency with an oversight over agencies such as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Enforcement Directorate Read More …
The ‘State of World Population Report 2022’ was released by the United Nations Population Fund (formerly UNFPA). The report was released under the titled “Seeing the Unseen: The case for action in the neglected crisis of unintended pregnancy”. As per Read More …
Scientists have finally mapped an entire human genome, nearly two decades after researchers first announced that they had sequenced the majority of the roughly 3 billion letters contained in human DNA. The work was done by the Telomere to Telomere Read More …
Darlongs – a small community in Tripura – was officially included in the list of Scheduled Tribes after the Lok Sabha passed the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bill, 2022. Darlong is a tribal community of 11,000 people. Despite its Read More …
Chief Justice of India (CJI) N.V. Raman on March 31 formally launched ‘FASTER’- a digital platform to get a hard copy of a Supreme Court order swiftly. ‘FASTER’ is an abbreviation of ‘Fast and Secured Transmission of Electronic Records’. The Read More …
The dolphin population along Odisha’s coast and in its waterbodies rose from 544 in 2021 to 726 in 2022. The data was released by the Principal Chief Conservator Forest (Wildlife), Odisha. Key highlights of census The increase in the State’s Read More …
The Lok Sabha on April 1 passed the Constitution (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) Orders (Amendment) Bill, 2022. The Rajya Sabha had passed it on March 30. The Bill seeks to amend the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950 to omit Read More …
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) is on its way to commercialize another Basin – the Vindhyan Basin. This would be the ninth producing Basin of India- the eighth by ONGC. Well Hatta This comes close on the heels Read More …
An Conger ice shelf, has completely collapsed in East Antarctica within days of record high temperatures, according to satellite data. Conger, which had an approximate surface area of 1,200 sq km, collapsed around 15 March. Satellite data from the Copernicus Read More …