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Context: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader recently began a day-long hunger strike in New Delhi, demanding passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill (WRB). The Bill will reserve one-third of the total number of seats in state Assemblies and Parliament for women. Women in Parliament The WRB was passed in the Rajya Sabha in 2010 but …
Read MoreContext: According to the Statement of Climate of India 2022 released by the India Meteorological Department, In 2022, heavy rain, floods and landslides claimed 835 lives in the country. With a steady rise in the number of extreme weather events, especially heavy rainfall capable of triggering landslides and floods, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) …
Read MoreContext: At the recently-held Munich security conference, a major concern of the members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was the reluctance of the Global South to align itself with the G-7 on the war in Ukraine. Although the vast majority of countries across the world condemn the Russian invasion and would like the …
Read MoreContext: Since the dawn of mobile communication in the early 1980s, companies and consumers have been adapting to new ways of sending and receiving information. How has technology evolved? The first-generation technology of this era let people make and receive phones calls through their mobile handheld devices The second and third generations added text and …
Read MoreNews: One of the 75 Ramsar sites in the nation, the Sultanpur National Park was recently visited by G20 members. In Haryana’s Gurgaon district sits Sultanpur National Park, formerly known as Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary. It covers 1.42 sq km and is primarily made up of wetlands. A significant habitat for water birds, both migratory …
Read MoreNews: The SWAMIH Fund started in 2019 and has constructed over 20,557 dwellings. India’s largest social impact fund, the Special Window for Affordable and Mid-Income Housing (SWAMIH) Investment Fund, was established expressly for finishing distressed and stalled residential projects. The Fund is supported by the Indian Ministry of Finance and is run …
Read MoreNews: Researchers from PGIMER Chandigarh and Christian Medical College in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, discovered that an antibiotic combination works well for treating severe scrub typhus. A serious concern to public health in South and Southeast Asia is scrub typhus, a potentially fatal sickness brought on by the Orientia tsutsugamushi bacteria. It is transmitted to …
Read MoreNews: A group of zoologists has rediscovered the endemic to the higher elevations of the Western Ghats frog Uperodon montanus. Other names for Uperodon montanus include Malabar Hill frog and Jerdon’s narrow-mouthed frog. It is unique to India’s Western Ghats. The damp deciduous woodland to evergreen forest is the typical habitat where this frog …
Read MoreAbout the Disease Rabies is a disease that is caused by a family of viruses called the lyssaviruses and found in a range of mammals. The virus targets the central nervous system and is nearly 100% fatal to the host animal if it succeeds in infecting it. Though many animals from cats to crocodiles can …
Read MoreContext: In August last year, India updated its international climate commitments — first made in 2015 in the run-up to the Paris climate conference, it enhanced two of the three original targets it had promised to achieve by 2030. It said it would reduce the emissions intensity of its economy — emissions per unit of …
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