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Urban heat island Every winter, the whole of north India is covered by dense fog. But a phenomenon called urban heat island is burning holes in this grey shroud over New Delhi and other cities on the Indo-Gangetic Plain, says…

SFOORTI Application To help plan the traffic flows and optimize freight operations, Ministry of Railways have launched Smart Freight Operation Optimisation & Real Time Information (SFOORTI) App for Freight Managers which provides features for monitoring and managing freight business using…

National Youth Festival National Youth Festival is being celebrated on 12th January, that is, on the occasion of birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, the youth icon of India. About the National Youth Festival: What is it? National Youth Festival (NYF)…

The Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA) A one-day National Conference on Welfare of Laboratory Animals was recently organised by CPCSEA, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, with the theme of “Implementation…

All India Whips’ Conference The 18th All India Whips’ Conference was recently inaugurated at Udaipur, Rajasthan. The conference is hosting around 90 Delegates belonging to 19 States and Centre. Significance of the conference: The purpose of this conference is to…

Medaram’s Jatara Central government is likely to declare Medaram’s Sammakka-Sarakka/Saralamma Jatara a national festival this year. Once declared a national festival, Jatara can be considered for ‘intangible cultural heritage of humanity’ tag of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation…

Iceland becomes first country to legalise equal pay iceland legalises equal pay A new law making it illegal to pay men more than women has taken effect in Iceland. The legislation makes Iceland the first country in the world to…

Bharat Biotech’s Typbar-TCV: WHO approves Indian typhoid vaccine for global use The World Health Organisation (WHO) has given its pre-qualification to Typbar Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TVC) developed by Hyderabad based Bharat Biotech for global use. Typbar TCV is world’s first…

Parliament passes NABARD (Amendment) Bill, 2017 Parliament has passed the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Amendment) Bill, 2017 with the approval of Rajya Sabha. Lok Sabha already had passed the bill in August 2017. The Bill seeks to…

Schistura Larketensis: New species of blind fish discovered inside Meghalaya cave Scientists have discovered a new species of blind fish named Schistura larketensis inside a cave in East Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya. The fish has been named after Larket…