GS Paper III
News Excerpt:
According to the 2024 World Wildlife Crime Report, Wildlife trafficking persists worldwide despite two decades of concerted action at international and national levels.
GS Paper II
News Excerpt:
The Smart Cities Mission (SCM), a flagship program of the central government, has been shifted to low priority on this year’s list of poll promises and achievements.
GS Paper I & II
News Excerpt:
The Allahabad High Court stated earlier this month that a Muslim cannot claim rights in a live-in relationship when he or she has a living spouse. A two-judge Bench called such a relationship against the tenets of Islam.
News in brief
News Excerpt:
The fight against climate change demands a transition away from coal, but the economic impact on coal-dependent communities raises concerns.
News Excerpt:
Richard Slayman, the first human recipient of a pig kidney transplant in March 2024, dies.
News Excerpt:
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected the best evidence to date for the existence of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet.
News Excerpt:
India and Iran signed a 10-year contract on 13th May for the operation of a terminal at the strategically important Chabahar port in Iran.
News Excerpt:
India’s Ramayana, Panchtantra and Sahrdayaloka have found their place in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Regional Register for the 2024 cycle.
News Excerpt:
Union Minister for Power and New and Renewable Energy (NRE) recently presided over a high-profile meeting to review the results of a study conducted by IIT-Delhi on ambient atmospheric sulphur dioxide (SO2) concentrations and the effect of installing flue gas desulphurisation (FGD) technology on SO2 emissions in various categories of cities.
