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 Read More …
Month: December 2017
Breakthrough of the Year 2017: Cosmic Convergence
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 Read More …
Mission Antyoday
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 Read More …
Ganga Gram Project
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 Read More …
IUCN latest Endangered Red list
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 Read More …
Jerusalem as Israel Capital
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 Read More …
Blackening of Brahmaputra River: Real causes
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 Read More …