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News: Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is being studied by scientists who claim that warm water is leaking into its weak points and accelerating melting brought on by global warming. West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, sometimes known as the “Doomsday glacier,” is a swift glacier. It encompasses a territory around the size of Great Britain. At …
Read MoreNews: One of India’s Central Armed Police Forces is the Indo-Tibetan Border Police. It is a specialised mountain force, and the majority of the officers and soldiers have received professional mountaineering and skiing training. Following the Sino-Indian War in 1962, it was built and deployed along India’s border with China’s Tibet Autonomous Region. The …
Read MoreNews: The Mental Healthcare Act (MHA) was violated by numerous Mental Healthcare Institutions (MHIs) in India, which prompted the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to express concern. The NHRC claims that MHIs are “illegally” holding patients after they have recovered, which not only violates Article 21 but also shows that governments are failing to …
Read MoreContext: A healthy gut microbiome is not a panacea but it may be able to help improve the quality of life of individuals with various diseases that lack other proven interventions. Differences in gut microbiome composition have been implicated in several diseases, including Crohn’s disease, celiac disease and particularly, autism. Autism spectrum disorder Autism spectrum …
Read MorePolicy of Reservation Reservation is a system of affirmative action in India that provides historically disadvantaged groups representation in education, employment, government schemes, health, insurance, banking, foreign higher education, scholarships and politics. Based on provisions in the Indian Constitution, it allows the Union Government and the States and Territories of India to set reserved quotas …
Read MoreContext: The Central government is seeking to change guidelines for the designation of senior lawyers, issued by the Supreme Court in the aftermath of its 2017 ruling in the case of ‘Indira Jaising vs. Union of India’. An application for modification was filed before the Apex Court in ‘Amar Vivek Aggarwal & Others vs. High …
Read MoreNews: A new species of beetle was found by a researcher at the Pune-based Western Regional Centre (WRC) of the Zoological Survey of India. Necrophagous in nature, it is also known as the keratin beetle. A member of the Trogidae family is this species. There are currently a total of 14 extant species of this …
Read MoreNews: The First G20 Culture Group (CWG) Meeting will take place in Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh, from February 22 through February 25, 2023, according to the Ministry of Culture. There will be four meetings for the working group, and they will take place in Hampi, Bhubaneshwar, and Khajuraho. “Protection and Restitution of Cultural Property” is the …
Read MoreNews: One of India’s Central Armed Police Forces is the Indo-Tibetan Border Police. It is a specialised mountain force, and the majority of the officers and soldiers have received professional mountaineering and skiing training. Following the Sino-Indian War in 1962, it was built and deployed along India’s border with China’s Tibet Autonomous Region. The CRPF …
Read MoreContext: According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), our solar system officially has eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. But between 1930 to 2006, it had nine. Pluto was long thought to be the ninth, smallest and outermost planet in our solar system but it has been relegated to the …
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