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MAKHANA- BLACK DIAMOND
MAKHANA
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while presenting the Union Budget on February 1, said that a “Makhana Board” will be set up in Bihar to boost the cultivation and ...
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03-Feb 2025
FEMALE LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION RATE (FLPR) FEMALE LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION RATE (FLPR)
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Women contribute around 63 per cent of the agricultural labour force in India, yet they lack access to key resources such as land ow...
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31-Jan 2025
INDIA - INDONESIA
INDIA - INDONESIA
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India and Indonesia signed pacts on maritime security, health, traditional medicine, culture and digital cooperation on Saturday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
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29-Jan 2025
PIEZOELECTRIC EFFECT
PIEZOELECTRIC EFFECT
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Piezoelectrics are materials with a particularly interesting property — they can effectively create a surplus and a deficiency of electrons when they are un...
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28-Jan 2025
BODY MASS INDEX (BMI)
BODY MASS INDEX (BMI)
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India has revised guidelines for obesity treatment and diagnosis after 15 years. The move comes after a call for global recalibration on how obesity is meas...
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27-Jan 2025
ANTIVENOMS
ANTIVENOMS
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A landmark 2020 study by researchers from Canada, India, and the U.K. estimated that between 2001 and 2014, a staggering 1.2 million snakebite deaths and three-times a...
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22-Jan 2025
BLOOD MONEY
BLOOD MONEY
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The death sentence awarded by a Yemen court to nurse Nimisha Priya from Kerala for murdering her business partner, and the subsequent debates and efforts surrounding ...
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16-Jan 2025
MAHA KUMBH MELA
MAHA KUMBH MELA
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As visitors settle into their tents and luxury domes at the Maha Kumbh that will be held on a sprawling 10,000 acres along the Ganga at Prayagraj, authorities are...
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09-Jan 2025
FRESH WATER CYCLE
WATER CYCLE
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Climate change has been “wreaking havoc” on Earth’s water cycle by disrupting how water circulates between the ground, oceans and atmosphere, according to a new repor...
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09-Jan 2025
PRAVASI BHARATIYA DIVAS
PRAVASI BHARATIYA DIVAS
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Trinidad and Tobago President Christine Carla Kangaloo will be the chief guest at the 18th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) program to be held in Bhubaneswar...
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07-Jan 2025
HUMAN META PNEUMOVIRUS (HMPV)
HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS (HMPV)
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China’s diseases control authority said that it was piloting a monitoring system for pneumonia of unknown origin. The country was already witnessi...
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07-Jan 2025
CHINA'S MEGA DAM PROJECT
CHINA'S MEGA DAM PROJECT
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The ambitious plan to build a mega-hydropower dam across the Brahmaputra at the Great Bend region of the Medog county in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (T...
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06-Jan 2025
NO DETENTION POLICY
NO DETENTION POLICY
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The Union government amended the Rules of the Right to Education Act, 2009 in December 2024 to allow schools to detain students in Classes 5 and 8 if they are...
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06-Jan 2025
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY (GEF)
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY (GEF)
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Last year witnessed parties to the three Rio conventions come together to discuss implementation of the agreements in the coming years. Delegate...
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04-Jan 2025
CROP INSURANCE SCHEME
CROP INSURANCE SCHEME
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The Union Cabinet on January 1, 2025, approved the continuation of two crop insurance schemes — the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) and Restructure...
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04-Jan 2025