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NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY ACT
NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY ACT
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Cereal inflation based on the official consumer price index has been ruling at double digits year-on-year since September 2022.
For a majority of Indians, the...
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05-Sep 2023
AUTONOMOUS DISTRICT COUNCIL(ADC)
AUTONOMOUS DISTRICT COUNCIL
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In the four months since violence erupted in Manipur, thousands of people from the Kuki-Zomi community in Meiti-majority Imphal have left the city. Howeve...
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05-Sep 2023
MEDITERRANEAN SEA
MEDITERRANEAN SEA
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Frequent heat waves cause huge damage to underwater ecosystems and researchers expect more of them in the future
Extreme heat has plagued the Mediterranean for we...
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05-Sep 2023
SANATAN DHARMA
SANATAN DHARMA
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DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin equated Sanatan Dharma to "mosquitoes, dengue, malaria, and corona". His statement was met with outrage from BJP leaders, who described it a...
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05-Sep 2023
HUBBLE CONSTANT
HUBBLE CONSTANT
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About 13.8 billion years ago, a really small, really dense, and really hot spot lying beyond spacetime began to expand. Its expansion and cooling – in an event that s...
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05-Sep 2023
ADITYA-L1 ADITYA-L1
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The recently launched Aditya-L1 mission, marks a significant milestone for India as it ventures into the elite group of nations studying the Sun through space probes.
While...
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04-Sep 2023
MERCY PETITION
MERCY PETITION
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The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) 2023, the proposed replacement for the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), contains a new provision on mercy petitions in death...
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04-Sep 2023
INDIAN DEEP SPACE NETWORK (IDSN)
INDIAN DEEP SPACE NETWORK (IDSN)
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ISRO on September 2, 2023 launched the country’s ambitious Solar mission, Aditya-L1 eyeing history again after its successful lunar expedition, Chan...
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04-Sep 2023
ONE NATION-ONE ELECTION
ONE NATION-ONE ELECTION
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On September 1, the Central government took a significant step by establishing a committee chaired by former President Ram Nath Kovind.
The committee's prima...
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04-Sep 2023
RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT
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For 13 years, the Right to Information Act, of 2005, helped citizens obtain information and data from Central and State institutions that are not readily avail...
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04-Sep 2023
KAKRAPAR-3
KAKRAPAR-3
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The third unit of the Kakrapar Atomic Power Project (KAPP-3) in Gujarat achieved its ‘first criticality’ — a term that signifies the initiation of a controlled but sustai...
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02-Sep 2023
WORLD SANSKRIT DAY
WORLD SANSKRIT DAY
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To mark the World Sanskrit Day , Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked people to share a sentence in Sanskrit on social media, following which several Union minister...
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02-Sep 2023
SESSIONS OF PARLIAMENT
SESSIONS OF PARLIAMENT
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In response to a letter from the Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury seeking a short session of Parliament to discuss the new farm laws, Pa...
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02-Sep 2023
ORGANISED CRIME AND CORRUPTION REPORTING PROJECT (OCCRP)
ORGANISED CRIME AND CORRUPTION REPORTING PROJECT (OCCRP)
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After Hindenburg, the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) has made fresh allegations of stock mani...
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01-Sep 2023
SUPER BLUE MOON
SUPER BLUE MOON
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Rakhi is celebrated on the Purnima of the month of Shravan — on August 30-31 will be unusual: it will be both a “blue moon” and a “super moon” and therefore, a “Su...
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01-Sep 2023