The GROWTH-India telescope at Indian Astronomical Observatory in Ladakh captured a building sized asteroid as Read More …
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GROWTH-India telescope
India’s first sunken museum inaugurated at Humayun’s Tomb complex
India’s first sunken museum at the site of Humayun’s Tomb complex in Delhi was inaugurated Read More …
Laos released world’s first stamp depicting ‘Ram Lalla of Ayodhya’
Laos has released a special stamp set that includes a stamp on Lord Rama and Read More …
Advanced Land Navigation System (ALNS)
The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) chaired by defence minister accorded Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for Read More …
31 MQ-9B High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) chaired by defence minister reviewed and approved amendments to the Read More …
Charles Darwin’s frog exhibits unique upside-down spawning behaviour
An Indo-American team of biologists has discovered an extraordinary reproductive behaviour in the Charles Darwin’s Read More …
World’s first deaths from Oropouche fever confirmed in Brazil
Two women in Brazil became world’s first humans to die from Oropouche fever. Reportedly, the Read More …
628 tigers die in India during the past five years
Responding to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Union Minister of State for Environment Kirti Read More …
JWST reported evidence of a liquid ocean buried under Ariel’s surface
On July 24, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reported evidence of a liquid ocean Read More …
Jabiluka site
Australia took steps to ban mining at an Indigenous site surrounded by Kakadu National Park, Read More …
RBI issued draft guidelines on higher Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR)
RBI has issued draft guidelines on Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR). The regulator has asked banks Read More …
India’s First Integrated Agri-Export Facility to come up at Jawaharlal Nehru Port
India’s First Integrated Agri-Export Facility will be set up at Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Mumbai.
Indexation in calculating long-term capital gains (LTCG)
In the Union Budget 2024, the finance minister has made an adjustment regarding the treatment Read More …
Pilikula Biological Park-captive breeding of King Cobras
Pilikula Biological Park in Mangaluru, Karnataka has taken up tagging of select species of wild Read More …
What is Climate Finance Taxonomy?
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while presenting the Union Budget for 2024-25, announced that the government Read More …
Cheyava Falls: Perseverance Finds a Rock on Mars With ‘Leopard Spots’
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured the image of a rock nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” on July Read More …
State Legislature has power to tax mining lands-Supreme Court
A nine-judge Constitution Bench on July 25 held that the power of State Legislatures to Read More …
Moidams Inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List as India’s 43rd Entry
“Moidams – the Mound-Burial System of the Ahom Dynasty” from Assam has been officially inscribed on Read More …
Draft notifications on ‘white category’ sectors
The Union Environment Ministry has released two separate draft notifications on ‘white category’ sectors. According Read More …
Model Skill Loan Scheme
The Centre has introduced a revised Model Skill Loan Scheme, designed to provide financial support Read More …
Interaction-2024: The first joint anti-terrorism of SCO
Security officials from the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held the first Read More …
Saint Hilarion Monastery/Tell Umm Amer site put on the List of World Heritage in Danger
The Palestinian heritage site of Saint Hilarion Monastery/Tell Umm Amer received the UNESCO World Heritage Read More …
India, US sign ‘Cultural Property Agreement’
India and the U.S. on July 26 signed a cultural property agreement aimed at enhancing Read More …
Assessment of Area Affected due to Floods in India
Union Minister for Jal Shakti, Shri C.R. Paatil, released a publication brought out by Central Read More …
What are Bharat Small Reactors (BSRs)?
The Union Budget 2024-25 has proposed a partnership between the government and the private sector Read More …