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Context: The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has declared 2023 to be the ‘International Year of Millets’, giving these crops a shot in the arm even as countries worldwide are looking to them for their ability to grow in environmental conditions that the climate crisis is rendering more common. Millets are becoming more popular …
Read MoreNews: Inside the new Parliament, which was designed by the National Council of Science Museums, Kolkata, is a Foucault pendulum. The pendulum, created by French scientist Léon Foucault in the middle of the 19th century, was the first ever experimental proof that the Earth rotates on its axis. To represent the “integration of the idea …
Read MoreNews: By creating a five-member panel to properly administer the Center’s rare illnesses policy, the Delhi High Court has taken a proactive move to address the issues faced by patients with rare diseases. The National Rare Diseases Committee, a group, seeks to guarantee that patients registered with the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, …
Read MoreNews: The Supply Chains (Pillar II) negotiations during the second Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) Ministerial Meeting were fruitful, while the other pillars made considerable progress. IPEF is a US-led framework that enables the 14 participating nations to strengthen their ties and take part in significant economic and trade issues that affect the area. …
Read MoreNews: A China Coast Guard (CCG) vessel has recently been travelling in Japan’s territorial seas near the Senkaku Islands, according to a Japan Coast Guard (JCG) source. This comes amid escalating tensions in the Indo-Pacific area. The Senkaku Islands are a collection of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea. It lies roughly 120 nautical …
Read MoreNews: In 2022, spear phishing may have affected up to 53% of the firms surveyed in India, according to a new analysis. A specific person, group, or company is the target of a spear phishing email or electronic communication scam. It is a deliberate attempt to steal private information, like login credentials for an account …
Read MoreContext: Recently a popular YouTuber, shared how his mother’s bank account was drained using an Aadhaar-linked fingerprint without needing a two-factor authentication. His mother was not informed of the transactions by her bank, via message or otherwise. What is AePS? The Aadhaar-enabled Payment System (AePS) is a bank-led model which allows online financial transactions at …
Read MoreContext: 10 years after the PoSH Act came into force, the Supreme Court Bench of India has said there are “serious lapses” and “uncertainty” regarding its implementation, issuing directions to the Union, States, and Union Territories to verify if all government bodies had formed Internal Complaint Committees and to ensure that the composition of such …
Read MoreNews: Authorities have been blaming a sharp temperature change in the area for the recent deaths of thousands of fish in Dal Lake. A lake can be found in Srinagar, the capital of Jammu & Kashmir during the summer. The Pir Panjal mountains encircle it. It is known as the “Jewel in the crown of …
Read MoreNews:The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) of the European Space Agency recently flashed an encrypted message to Earth from its orbit around Mars. The first of several cooperative projects between Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, and the European Space Agency (ESA), is the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO). It is intended to learn more about …
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