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News: The engaging book “Kathakali Dance Theatre: A Visual Narrative of Sacred Indian Mime” by KK Gopalakrishnan was just published. The book gives readers a behind-the-scenes peek at the world of Kathakali, emphasising the green room, the challenges of the artists, and the special friendships created during extended make-up sessions. In the 17th century, the …
Read MoreNews: Every year on June 5, the world celebrates World Environment Day. Since 1973, the United Nations Environment Programme has celebrated World Environment Day on 5 June to raise awareness of the need to protect life on Earth. Since the event’s inauguration in 1973, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has served as its coordinator. …
Read MoreNews: In the Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary, the Indian Army created a special environment that allows for peaceful coexistence with wild elephants. The Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary is in the Assam state. It consists of the Khanapara, Amchang, and South Amchang Reserve Forests. It forms a continuous forest belt that runs across the Maradakdola Reserve woods of …
Read MoreNews: Many farmers expressed concern about the “foot rot” illness in the Basmati variety of paddy saplings in the nurseries. Bakanae Disease is another name for foot rot. Only the Basmati kind of paddy is affected by this lethal fungus, which is spread by soil and seeds. ‘Fusarium verticillioides’ fungi are the culprits. The infected …
Read MoreNews: The Duty-Free Quota-Free (DFQF) programme is still not being used by the LDC countries, according to a report from the least developed countries group at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). At the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial Meeting in 2005, the decision to grant duty-free quota-free (DFQF) access to LDCs was made for the first …
Read MoreContext: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has conceptualised a lightweight payment and settlements system, which it is calling a “bunker” equivalent of digital payments, which can be operated from anywhere by a bare minimum staff in exigencies such as natural calamities or war. The infrastructure for this system will be independent of the technologies …
Read MoreContext: Recently, physicists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle-smasher at CERN, in Europe, reported that they had detected a Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson particle and a photon. This is a very rare decay process that tells us important things about the Higgs boson as well as about our universe. What …
Read MoreNews: The Unified Registration Portal for GOBARdhan has been inaugurated by Union Minister for Jal Shakti. GOBARdhan Programme: The Government of India’s Galvanising Organic Bio-Agro Resources Dhan programme is a key overarching project. In 2018 the Gobardhan initiative was introduced by the government as a national priority project under the Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen-Phase II …
Read MoreNews: The NIPCCD Regional Centre in Mohali hosted a Refresher Training Programme on Mission Vatsalya from May 29–31, 2023. A road map for achieving development and child protection priorities that are in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is called the Mission Vatsalya Scheme. With the motto “leave no child behind,” it places a …
Read MoreNews: At the Maharashtrian fort of Raigad, celebrations for the 350th anniversary of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s coronation just got under way. The Maratha Empire in western India was founded by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. Shahaji Bhosle and Jijabai gave birth to him on February 19, 1630, in the Shivneri fort, close to the town of Junnar …
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