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U.S. health authorities approved the world's first vaccine for chikungunya.
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U.S. health authorities approved the world's first vaccine for chikungunya.
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The Smart Cities Mission approaches its June 2024 deadline.
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Recently, a state of emergency has been declared in Iceland, after a swarm of 800 earthquakes rocked the island country’s southwestern Reykjanes peninsula.
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The government of India is planning to launch the PM-Kisan Bhai scheme.
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It has been speculated that the world is going to see an alternative to the Egyptian-controlled Suez Canal that starts from the western arm of the Red Sea and passes to the southeastern Mediterranean through the northern Sinai peninsula.
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The Central Bureau of Communication recently announced the Digital Advertisement Policy of 2023.
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Recently, Punjab has seen a surge in demand for a farm machine called Baler that makes ex situ (off-site) stubble control easier since the Supreme Court took up the issue of farm fires.
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Recently, the Indian Defence Minister and External Affairs Minister met their counterparts from the US government, Defence Secretary and Secretary of State respectively, for the fifth 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue held in New Delhi.
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The recent Supreme Court hearing on the constitutionality of electoral bonds has focused attention on an issue that goes to the heart of Indian democracy: the funding of political parties.
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Recently, over 15 products from Uttarakhand have been given the coveted GI tag by the Geographical Indications Registry.
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The Supreme Court upheld certain key provisions of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) amid the claim of several petitioners that they are violative of fundamental rights like the right to equality to those against whom insolvency proceedings are initiated.
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An undersea volcano off the coast of Japan's Ogasawara Islands, a far-flung archipelago also known as the Bonin Islands, has given birth to a tiny new island.
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The Supreme Court clarified that its order banning the use of barium and other banned chemicals in firecrackers applies to the entire country and not just the National Capital Region.
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Recently, the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) has issued the ‘Guidelines for Genetically Engineered (GE) Insects’.
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The Hanle and Merak observatories in Ladakh recently captured photographs of a rare red aurora in the night sky.
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According to Deloitte India’s survey-based report “Digital Banking Maturity (DBM)”, Indian banks outperform their global peers in digital maturity score compared to the global average.
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A short-duration rice variety called Pusa-2090 can replace Pusa-44.
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The Supreme Court's five-judge bench will resolve the conflict between voters' right to know the source of political funding and companies' right to privacy and confidentiality while choosing which party to fund in the validity of the electoral bond scheme.
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Recently, the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA), in its World Energy Outlook 2023 report, has highlighted India's Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC), 2017.
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International Monetary Fund executive board approves a proposal to increase IMF quotas.
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The Bihar Cabinet has approved a proposal to increase reservations in the State to 65% from the current 50% quota, crossing the ceiling set by the Supreme Court of India.
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Recently, the Department of Consumer Affairs released the draft “Guidelines for Prevention and Regulation of Dark Patterns, 2023” (“DP Guidelines”) issued under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 (“CP Act”) prohibiting platforms from engaging in any “dark patterns”.
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The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has requested input from the public and regulated entities to simplify and reduce the cost of compliance with its regulations.
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The Global Tuberculosis (TB) 2023 report recently released by the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed that India accounted for the highest number of TB cases in the world in 2022, accounting for 27% of the global burden.
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Domestication can affect a species in intricate ways, forcing genetic innovation as well as handicaps.
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Electric power transmission is fundamental to economic development and prosperity.
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Klyuchevskoy (Klyuchevskaya) volcano has erupted on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.
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The Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning (CAFRAL), set up by the RBI, has raised concern over the rise in bank financing for non-banking finance companies.
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Recently, the flow downstream of Subansiri River was “highly reduced” - to an estimated 5-10 cubic metres per second (cumecs) - after a landslide blocked the only diversion tunnel in use.
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Recently, The State of Food and Agriculture Report 2023, was published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).