Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Nasim Zaidi has requested the Union Law Ministry for urgent release of funds to facilitate procurement of VVPAT (voter verifiable paper audit trail) machines for the…

Tropical Cyclone ‘Maarutha’ and Impact Source : PIB,weather.com, Wikipedia GS I : Important Geophysical phenomena such as earthquakes, Tsunami, Volcanic activity, cyclone etc., geographical features and their location- changes in…

Nuclear debate : Use as war equipment and as energy producer At the same time, using the nuclear genie and harnessing it for prosperity was the best dream. Nuclear weapons…

Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI), self-regulatory body, has released a set of guidelines for celebrity endorsements that bring personalities, including doctors, authors, activists and educationists, into the celebrity category.…

Department of Science and Technology will be leading a ₹2,000-crore initiative to encourage more girls and women to take up careers in the domain of science and engineering, where they…

Three new species of plants belonging to the Balsaminaceae family were identified in the Mukurthi National Park in the Nilgiris recently. The three Balsams Named : (1) Impatiens kawttyana (2) Impatiens taihmushkulni (3) Impatiens nilgirica…

India plans to launch on 5 May the ‘South Asia Satellite’ that will benefit all the countries in the region, except Pakistan which is not a part of the project.…

BHIM-Aadhaar platform—a merchant interface linking the unique identification number to the Bharat Interface for Money mobile application—at Nagpur. Launched on the 126th birth anniversary of Dr B.R. Ambedkar. BHIM-Aadhaar platform…

Report on climate change : In order to have a good chance of meeting the limits set by the Paris Agreement, it will be necessary to both reduce greenhouse gas…

The second phase of the ‘Operation Clean Money’ (OCM) launched to unearth black money, the Income Tax department will probe over 60,000 individuals including 1,300 high risk persons for alleged excessive…