Various reports on climate change and its effect, have warned that due to global warming, rising sea level would ultimately cause pacific nation Tuvalu to disappear from world map. But truth is that it is actually growing in size. A Read More …
Category: Current Affairs
Marbled crayfish are multiplying without male partner
According to the new study published in ‘Nature, Ecology and Evolution’, marbled crayfish (Procambarus virginalis) are multiplying rapidly and invading ecosystems across the world. This ten-legged pests are descended from one single female with a mutation allowing it to reproduce Read More …
LPG Panchayat at Rashtrapati Bhavan
The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, hosted an‘LPG Panchayat’on February 13, 2018 at Rashtrapati Bhavan. It was organised by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. Aim: The aim of this LPG Panchayat was to provide a platform Read More …
World Radio Day 2018
World Radio Day 2018 was celebrated on 13 February. The theme of this year’s World Radio Day was ‘Radio and Sports’ to promote the inseparable relationship between sports and gender, as well as how improved gender equality in sports broadcasting can Read More …
India’s first ever Highway Capacity Manual
The Minister of Road Transport & Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari released India’s first ever Highway Capacity Manual in New Delhi on 12 February 2018. The manual, known as Indo-HCM, has been developed by CSIR – CRRI on the basis of an extensive, Read More …
Solar minimum may cause sun surface seven percent cooler by 2050
According to a research team based at the University of California in San Diego, the sun cycle is approaching towards solar grand minimum which effectively create another ice age on our planet earth. They say that the sun will be nearly Read More …
National Productivity Day observed on 12 February 2018
The National Productivity Council observed ‘National Productivity Day‘ on 12 February. It is also observing National Productivity Week till 18th February. It is the 60th Anniversary of the National Productivity Council and is being celebrated as Diamond Jubilee Year. The Read More …
Three new Eel species discovered along the coast of Bay of Bengal
A Zoological Survey of India ( ZSI) scientist Anil Mohapatra, along with other scientist have have discovered three new species of Eel along the northern Bay of Bengal coast. Newly discovered eel species, as published in the journal Zootaxa, are: Read More …
India State of Forest Report 2017: One percent increase in total forest and tree cover
Environment Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on 12 February 2018, released the India State of Forest Report 2017 in New Delhi. The India State of Forest Report 2017 is 15th report in the series. Here are the main features of the Read More …
National Deworming Day initiative launched
Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Shri J P Nadda, on 10 February 2018, launched the National Deworming Day at Gurugram, Haryana. The National Deworming Day, is one of the largest public health initiatives in the world. This round of Read More …
New Horizons captures the farthest image ever made from Earth
Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) of NASA’ s New Horizons spacecraft on Dec. 5, 2017 snapped a picture of a group of stars known as the ‘Wishing Well’ when the spacecraft was about 3.79 billion miles 3.79 billion miles (6.12 billion Read More …
The Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) programme
A bill has been introduced in the US House of Representatives that seeks to extend ‘the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP)’ programme for next three years. The programme was expired on on the midnight of December 31, 2017. Trump’s ‘America First’ Read More …
Human eggs grown in lab first time
According to the the study published in the ‘Molecular Human Reproduction’ journal, first time, scientists from the University of Edinburgh (UK) have managed to grow human eggs in laboratory. The researchers were able to grow the eggs from immature cells taken Read More …
International Intellectual Property (IP) Index 2018-India at 44th place
India has jumped by one place in the sixth edition of the the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Innovation Policy Center’s (GIPC) ’ International Intellectual Property (IP) Index 2018. India has been ranked at 44th place among 50 nations with 30% Read More …
Sehuencas water frog-World’s loneliest frog species
Sehuencas water frog (Telmatobius yuracare) has been looking for the female for the last 10 years in the Cochabamba Natural History Museum in Bolivia. But all efforts to find the female Sehuencas have failed so far. The Global Wildlife Conservation has been trying over Read More …