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WORLD METEOROLOGICAL REPORT
WMO REPORT
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Asia, the world's most disaster-prone region, endured a harrowing year in 2022, as per the latest report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released on July 27, 2...
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31-Jul 2023
MONSOON AND FOOD INFLATION
MONSOON AND FOOD INFLATION
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From around the last week of June, the monsoon staged a recovery, covering the entire country by July 2 – six days before schedule. The current month s...
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31-Jul 2023
PROJECT WORLDCOIN
PROJECT WORLD COIN
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Recently, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to Twitter to formally re-introduce Worldcoin, a project eclipsed by the popularity of ChatGPT. The Worldcoin venture runs on a ...
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31-Jul 2023
PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS TERMS
PARLIAMENTARY TERMS
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Since the beginning of the Monsoon Session, opposition parties have been demanding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi make a statement in Parliament on the violent ...
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29-Jul 2023
ARAVALLI RANGE
ARAVALLI RANGE
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In February 2019, the Haryana legislative assembly amended the Punjab Land Preservation Act (PLPA) which was effectuated in 1900 for the “conservation of sub-soil wate...
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29-Jul 2023
FAIR AND REMUNERATIVE PRICE (FRP)
FAIR AND REMUNERATIVE PRICE (FRP)
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The government on Wednesday increased the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP), the minimum price that mills have to pay to sugarcane growers, by R...
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29-Jul 2023
16TH FINANCE COMMISSION 16TH FINANCE COMMISSION
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The Sixteenth Finance Commission is due to be set up shortly. Many critical changes have taken place since the constitution of the Fifteenth Finance Commission in ...
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29-Jul 2023
STAPLED VISA
STAPLED VISA
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India's decision to withdraw its eight-athlete wushu contingent from the Summer World University Games in Chengdu on July 28 was driven by China's issuance of stapled visas t...
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29-Jul 2023
BIODIVERSITY ACT
BIODIVERSITY ACT
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Recently Lok Sabha (July 25, 2023) gave its approval to a Bill to amend some provisions of the Biological Diversity Act of 2002. The Biological Diversity (Amendment) B...
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28-Jul 2023
DELISTING SECURITIES
DELISTING SECURITIES
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The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is actively reviewing delisting regulations to address the issue of share manipulation among listed companies....
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28-Jul 2023
CLOUD SEEDING
CLOUD SEEDING
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Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting him to “undertake cloud seeding plan to combat the air pollution...
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28-Jul 2023
CINEMATOGRAPHY AMENDMENT BILL 2023
CINEMATOGRAPHY AMENDMENT BILL 2023
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The Rajya Sabha recently approved the Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill, 2023, which brings about significant changes in the film industry. The bill addres...
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28-Jul 2023
LEPTOSPIROSIS
LEPTOSPIROSIS
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Following heavy rainfall in Mumbai, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) issued an advisory warning about leptospirosis, a bacterial disease.
In 2019, it re...
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28-Jul 2023
YAMUNA FLOOD PLAINS
YAMUNA FLOOD PLAINS
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Battered by heavy rains, the Yamuna looks slow, sluggish, and swollen. Last week, the water levels hit a yearhigh, gushing through elite neighborhoods built close...
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28-Jul 2023
FLUOROCHEMICALS
FLUOROCHEMICALS
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Researchers at the University of Oxford have achieved a groundbreaking breakthrough by developing a new technique to produce fluorochemicals without using hazardous hydr...
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27-Jul 2023