About Mollem National Park Mollem’s forest cover is part of a near-contiguous stretch of Western Ghats. It is part of the core area of Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary. Spread over 240 sq km, Mollem National Park is located in Sanguem …
About FSSAI FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India) is an autonomous statutory body established under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006. The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare is the administrative Ministry of FSSAI. FSSAI is responsible …
Why in News? To understand if a coastal city is more prone to floods caused by tidal events or extreme rainfall, a team from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, devised a new metric or measure called the Tide–Rainfall Flood …
About: The project aims at initiating the process of commencing operations of the Seaplane services, on the select routes, under a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) framework through prospective airline operators. The project execution and implementation would be through Sagarmala Development …
About Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All It was launched in 2015 with a target of replacing 77 crore incandescent lamps with LED bulbs and to nullify the high-cost of LEDs that acted as a barrier previously in the …
Recently, the Vice President of India has highlighted the fact that Single use plastic is a major cause of concern for the world today. A Glance at the Magnitude of the issue: In today’s Era, around 300 million metric tonnes …
What is it? Every January, thousands of volunteers across Asia and Australasia visit wetlands in their country and count waterbirds. This citizen science programme is the Asian Waterbird Census (AWC). It is an annual exercise conducted since 1987. The AWC …
What’s in the news? The Union Cabinet has approved the expansion of interest subvention scheme to also include grain-based distilleries besides molasses-based distilleries for the production of ethanol. The government would bear interest subvention for five years including one year …
About UNSC The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was established in 1946 as one of the six principal organs of the UN. It is generally viewed as the apex of the UN system. It is responsible for the maintenance of …