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The Centre on February 18, 2022 approved the implementation of Phase II of the Inter-Operable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) project. The ICJS project, by the Ministry of Home Affairs, has been approved with a total cost of Rs 3,375 crore Read More …
India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on February 18, 2022 signed Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). The India-UAE CEPA is the first bilateral trade accord concluded by the UAE, and it is also India’s first bilateral trade agreement in Read More …
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on February 19, 2022 inaugurated “Gobar-Dhan (Bio-CNG) Plant” in Indore through video conferencing. The plant has a capacity to treat 550 tonnes per day of segregated wet organic waste. It is expected to produce around Read More …
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on February 17, 2022 released its annual Frontiers report in which it has warned that wildfires are predicted to worsen in the coming years and decades. Features of report The report Frontiers 2022: Noise, Read More …
An Indian researcher has traced the tectonic evolution and the nature of the Greater Maldive Ridge (GMR) — a very crucial geodynamic features in the western Indian Ocean whose origin has been the centre of many a scientific debate. The Read More …
Tamil Nadu State Government, through its affidavit has made clear to the Supreme Court that it does not want the Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO) to be set up in Theni. Concerns raised In its affidavit, the State Environment Department said Read More …
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has notified new safety rules for two-wheelers carrying children aged between nine months and four years. The Motor Vehicles Act has been amended to introduce these rules, which will come into force a Read More …
Recently, thousands of Crimson Rose butterflies swarmed all available flowering plants along the pristine beach of Dhanushkodi at the southern-most tip of the Rameswaram island in the Indian peninsula. Crimson Roses were spotted on Ipomoea flowers and Half leaf flowers Read More …
थाईलैंड और फ्रांस के शोधकर्ताओं की एक टीम ने एक ऐसी क्षुद्रग्रह प्रणाली की खोज की है जिसमें एक मुख्य क्षुद्रग्रह “इलेक्ट्रा” (Elektra) का घूर्णन तीन छोटे-छोटे चन्द्रमा कर रहे हैं। इसे ‘चतुष्क क्षुद्रग्रह प्रणाली’ (quadruple asteroid system) कहा जाता Read More …
A team of researchers from Thailand and France have discovered the first known quadruple asteroid system-an asteroid with not one and not two, but three moons. They spotted a third moon orbiting the main-belt asteroid Elektra, moving the object into the record Read More …
Pollution from pesticides, plastics and electronic waste is causing widespread human rights violations as well as at least 9 million premature deaths a year, a U.N. environmental report published on February 15 said. The report urges a ban on polyfluoroalkyl Read More …
केंद्र सरकार ‘स्वामित्व योजना’ (SVAMITVA) के अंतर्गत ड्रोन के साथ भू-स्थानिक तकनीक (geospatial technology) के द्वारा भारत के सभी 6 लाख से अधिक गांवों का सर्वेक्षण करेगी। इसके साथ ही 100 भारतीय शहरों के लिए अखिल भारतीय त्रि-आयामी (3डी) मानचित्र Read More …
हाल ही में इलाज का इंतजार कर रहे 20 महीने के एक बच्चे ने दिल्ली में गौशर रोग (Gaucher disease) से दम तोड़ दिया। क्या है गौशर रोग (Gaucher disease)? गौशर (Gaucher disease) एक दुर्लभ आनुवंशिक विकार है जो वसा Read More …
भ्रष्टाचार के आरोपों को लेकर सात वर्षों में संसद में “महाभियोग” प्रक्रिया का सामना करने वाले चोलेंद्र शमशेर राणा नेपाल के दूसरे मुख्य न्यायाधीश बन गए हैं। न्यूयॉर्क टाइम्स के अनुसार, मुख्य न्यायाधीश को तब निलंबित कर दिया गया जब Read More …
केन्द्रीय सामाजिक न्याय और अधिकारिता मंत्री डॉ. वीरेंद्र कुमार ने 16 फरवरी, 2022 को डॉ. अम्बेडकर इंटरनेशनल सेंटर, नई दिल्ली में विमुक्त घुमंतू और अर्ध-घुमंतू समुदायों के कल्याण के लिए डीएनटी के आर्थिक सशक्तिकरण के लिए योजना ‘सीड’ (Scheme for Read More …