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BISHNOI COMMUNITY
BISHNOI COMMUNITY
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The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Baba Siddique was allegedly shot dead by the Lawrence Bishnoi Gang on 12th October 2024. This gang has been involved ...
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16-Oct 2024
HARBER BOSCH PROCESS
HARBER BOSCH PROCESS
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A hundred million tonnes of nitrogen are now removed from the atmosphere and converted into fertilizer via the Haber-Bosch process, adding 165 million tonnes...
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15-Oct 2024
X-BAND RADAR
X-BAND RADAR
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After devastating floods and landslides killed more than 200 people in Kerala’s Wayanad district in July 2024, the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences approved an X-ban...
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15-Oct 2024
PROTEIN
PROTEIN
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The 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was jointly awarded to David Baker for his work on computational protein design and to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for developing techn...
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14-Oct 2024
MIDDLE INCOME TRAP
MIDDLE-INCOME TRAP
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The World Development Report 2024 — authored by the World Bank — calls attention to the phenomenon of the “middle-income” trap, or the slowing down of growth ...
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14-Oct 2024
VIZAG STEEL PLANT (VSP)
VIZAG STEEL PLANT (VSP)
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Ever since Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the 100% strategic sale of the Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), the corporate entity of the ...
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10-Oct 2024
GLOBAL DIGITAL COMPACT (GDC)
GLOBAL DIGITAL COMPACT (GDC)
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In the recently concluded ‘Summit of the Future’ organised by the United Nations, member countries adopted the ‘Global Digital Compact’ (GDC). This a...
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09-Oct 2024
INDIA'S TEXTILE INDUSTRY
INDIA'S TEXTILE INDUSTRY
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Union Minister for Textiles Giriraj Singh recently said that the Indian textile and apparel sector is aiming for a total business of $350 billion ann...
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09-Oct 2024
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN INDIA - USCIRF
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN INDIA
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The Washington DC-based United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on October 2 released a country update on India, flagging ...
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09-Oct 2024
JAMMU AND KASHMIR - ELECTIONS
JAMMU AND KASHMIR - ELECTIONS
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The 2024 Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections are significant for several reasons. They are especially important because this is the first election ...
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08-Oct 2024
CLASSICAL LANGUAGES
CLASSICAL LANGUAGES
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The recent decision by the Union Cabinet to grant ‘Classical Language’ status to Marathi, Pali, Prakrit, Assamese, and Bengali has almost doubled the number o...
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07-Oct 2024
BIODIVERSITY AND HISTORY
BIODIVERSITY AND HISTORY
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The scales of space and time have always been fascinating. In our experience, we know what a year feels like, or what a decade feels like. But I don’t have ...
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04-Oct 2024
OVERSEAS CITIZEN OF INDIA (OCI)
OVERSEAS CITIZEN OF INDIA (OCI)
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In the wake of several Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card holders complaining about being reclassified as “foreigners”, the Ministry of External...
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03-Oct 2024
SPECIAL STATUS OF LADAKH
SPECIAL STATUS OF LADAKH
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Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk was detained on the Delhi border on Monday night as he led a group of protesters to petition the Central government for the ...
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03-Oct 2024
GANDHI AND AHIMSA
GANDHI AND AHIMSA
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Ukraine’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba invoked the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi to seek India’s support for the “freedom and independence” of Uk...
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01-Oct 2024