Impact of Customs Duty Change on Sovereign Gold Bonds
02 August 2024 | blogwebContext: Government reduced customs duty on gold from 15% to 6% in the Union Budget 2024-25. This led to a...
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Places in News: Seine River
02 August 2024 | blogwebContext: For the Paris Olympic swimming events, the city invested $1.5 billion (1.4 billion euros) to clean the Seine river,...
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Innovative Cleanup Technologies for Acid Mine Drainage (AMD)
02 August 2024 | blogwebContext: Researchers have proposed a combined approach to clean up the AMD using plants to absorb toxins through their roots...
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Overview of India’s Tourism Sector
02 August 2024 | blogwebContext: The Ministry of Tourism’s initiatives for promoting sustainable tourism in India include several strategic pillars and specific programs. ...
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Israel- Hezbollah Conflict
02 August 2024 | blogwebContext: Israel vowed to retaliate strongly against Hezbollah, accusing the group of killing 12 children and teenagers in a rocket...
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Multilateral Exercise Tarang Shakti
02 August 2024 | blogwebContext: India is scheduled to host its largest multilateral air exercise, “Tarang Shakti,” in August and September 2024 with the...
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Reservations & OBC Creamy Layer
02 August 2024 | blogwebContext: The IAS allotment to Puja Khedkar, an OBC Non-Creamy Layer candidate with multiple disabilities, has highlighted issues with the...
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Duplicated Genomes Helped Grasses Diversify and Thrive
02 August 2024 | blogwebContext: A new analysis by Penn State biologists examined the genomes of over 350 grass species, reconstructing the ancestral grass...
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A Climate-Smart Joint Venture for Rice and Wheat
02 August 2024 | blogwebContext: RiceTec Inc. from Alvin, Texas, and Mahyco Pvt. Ltd from Jalna, Maharashtra, have partnered to create a joint venture...
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Supreme Court Ruling on Sub-Classification of Scheduled Castes
02 August 2024 | blogwebContext: Recently, the Supreme Court of India issued a landmark 6:1 ruling permitting the sub-categorisation of Scheduled Castes (SCs) for...
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India’s Medical Tourism
01 August 2024 | blogwebContext: India’s medical tourism sector experiences a significant boost as a result of the rising number of visitors from Bangladesh...
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Global Wood Production Hits Record High and Set to Increase
31 July 2024 | blogwebContext: According to the State of the World’s Forest report, wood production hit a record high of 4 billion tonnes...
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Places in News: Golan Heights
31 July 2024 | blogwebContext: A deadly rocket strike in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights has heightened concerns that Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese group...
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Species in News: Charles Darwin
31 July 2024 | blogwebContext: A study in Breviora, Harvard’s journal, reveals that an Indo-American team discovered remarkable reproductive behaviour in Charles Darwin’s frog...
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Sturgeon Fishes are Facing Severe Poaching in the Lower Danube River
31 July 2024 | blogwebContext: Sturgeon, among the world’s most endangered fish, are being heavily poached and trafficked in the Lower Danube, their last...
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India’s first sunken Museum: Humayun’s Tomb World Heritage Site Museum
31 July 2024 | blogwebContext: Recently, the union Minister of Culture and Tourism inaugurated the sprawling 100,000 square feet state of the art Humayun’s...
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QUAD
31 July 2024 | blogwebContext: In their recent meeting, the Quadrilateral foreign ministers(FM) decided to expand the Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA)...
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Delay in Census
31 July 2024 | blogwebContext: The reduced Budget 2024-25 allocation of ₹1,309.46 crore for the Census, down from ₹3,768 crore in 2021-22, suggests that...
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The Impact of Digitalisation
31 July 2024 | blogwebContext: The Report on Currency and Finance (RCF) for 2023-24, issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), indicated that...
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New Insights into Cuprate Superconductors
31 July 2024 | blogwebContext: Recent research published in Nature Communications reveals groundbreaking findings about the interplay between superconductivity and charge density wave (CDW)...
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India Complaints Against India Employment Report 2024
31 July 2024 | blogwebContext: India, a founding member of the ILO, is likely to raise a complaint against the UN agency over its...
