Contents1 What is the News?2 What is the Global Ayush Investment & Innovation Summit?3 What is Ayush?4 Initiatives launched to Promote Ayush Sector What is the News? The Global Ayush Investment and Innovation Summit(GAIIS) concluded with the Ayush sector witnessing letter of intents (LoIs) of over Rs 9,000 crore. What is the Global Ayush Investment… Continue reading Three day Global Ayush Investment & Innovation Summit concludes successfully at Gandhinagar
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India to get world’s longest and highest tunnel in Himachal by 2025
What is the News? India will soon be home to the world’s longest highway tunnel beneath Shinku-La Pass. What is the Shinku-La Tunnel? The Shinku-La tunnel will be built at Shinku La Pass at an altitude of 16,580ft. The tunnel will be 4.25 km in length. It will provide all-weather connectivity between Ladakh and Himachal.… Continue reading India to get world’s longest and highest tunnel in Himachal by 2025
Explained: What a new research about Jupiter’s moon Europa means
Contents1 What is the News?2 What is Europa?3 Future Missions to Europa4 What did the researchers find about Europa? What is the News? A team of researchers from Stanford University have said that one of Jupiter’s moons Europa, a prime candidate for life in the solar system, might have an abundance of water pockets beneath… Continue reading Explained: What a new research about Jupiter’s moon Europa means
Explained: What constitutes ‘noise’, and how can noise pollution harm you?
Contents1 What is the News?2 What is Noise?3 What do The Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000 say?4 What is the acceptable level of noise?5 What are the rules around the use of loudspeakers?6 What is the impact of noise pollution on Health? What is the News? A political party in Maharashtra has raised… Continue reading Explained: What constitutes ‘noise’, and how can noise pollution harm you?
Explained: What are SPACs for which a regulatory framework may be in the works
Contents1 What is the News?2 What are Special Purpose Acquisition Companies(SPACs)?3 How do SPACs work?4 Advantages of SPACs5 The risk associated with SPACs What is the News? The Government of India is considering a regulatory framework for Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) to lay the ground for the possible listing of Indian companies through this… Continue reading Explained: What are SPACs for which a regulatory framework may be in the works
Explained: What is Russia’s new nuclear missile Sarmat, capable of striking ‘anywhere in the world’?
Contents1 What is the News?2 What is Sarmat?3 Key Features4 Significance of this missile What is the News? Russia has successfully tested its new Inter Continental Ballistic Missile(ICBM) named “Sarmat”. What is Sarmat? Sarmat is an Inter Continental Ballistic Missile(ICBM) developed by Russia. The missile has been nicknamed as “Satan II” by the West. Named… Continue reading Explained: What is Russia’s new nuclear missile Sarmat, capable of striking ‘anywhere in the world’?
Prunus dinabandhuana: New plant species of ‘Cherry Blossom’ found in Manipur
Contents1 What is the News?2 What is Cherry Blossom?3 About Prunus dinabandhuana4 Why was this plant species named after Scientist Dr Dinabandhu Sahoo? What is the News? Scientists from Manipur have found a new plant species of ‘Cherry Blossom’. They have named the plant species as ‘Prunus dinabandhuana’ as a mark of respect and for… Continue reading Prunus dinabandhuana: New plant species of ‘Cherry Blossom’ found in Manipur
Expert body needed on Man-Animal Conflict: Panel
Contents1 What is the News?2 What are the suggestions given by the committee?3 Standing Committee of the State Board for Wild Life(SBWL) 4 On Human-Animal Conflict What is the News? The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment, Forests and Climate Change has submitted its report on the proposed Wildlife (Protection) Amendment Bill, 2021. The Bill seeks to… Continue reading Expert body needed on Man-Animal Conflict: Panel
Genetically modified mosquitoes for controlling vector-borne diseases? Successful trial gives hope
Contents1 What is the News?2 What are Genetically Modified Mosquitoes(GMM)?3 Why were Genetically Modified Mosquitoes(GMM) developed?4 How are GM mosquitoes produced and used to control Ae. aegypti mosquitoes?5 What are the concerns regarding this method? What is the News? Oxitec, the UK-based company, has said that the first open-air study of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes(GMM) in… Continue reading Genetically modified mosquitoes for controlling vector-borne diseases? Successful trial gives hope
India’s first pure green hydrogen plant commissioned in Jorhat
Contents1 What is the News?2 About India’s First pure Green Hydrogen plant3 What is Green Hydrogen?4 What is the importance of Anion Exchange Membrane(AEM) Technology? What is the News? Oil India Limited(OIL) has commissioned India’s First pure Green Hydrogen pilot plant at its Jorhat Pump Station in Assam. About India’s First pure Green Hydrogen plant… Continue reading India’s first pure green hydrogen plant commissioned in Jorhat
