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New Committee to review Defence Procurement Procedure to strengthen ‘Make in India’

Rajnath Singh, Union Minister of Defence has approved setting up of a Committee to review Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) 2016 and Defence Procurement Manual (DPM) 2009 as DPP...

August 19, 2019

India is the world’s largest emitter of Sulphur dioxide, says Greenpeace

As per the data released by Greenpeace, India is the world’s largest emitter of SO2 in the world. As per the study, India emits over 15% of all...

August 19, 2019

Mission Punganur

Mission Punganur is a state-level conservation and breeding programme launched by the Government of Andhra Pradesh to protect and propagate the Punganur cattle, a rare dwarf indigenous breed....

August 19, 2019

Monocropping

Monocropping, also known as monoculture, is an agricultural practice in which the same crop is grown repeatedly on the same piece of land year after year. It is...

August 19, 2019

Monoculture Plantations

Monoculture plantations are large-scale agricultural systems where a single crop species is cultivated extensively over a prolonged period. This practice is commonly associated with commercial crops such as...

August 19, 2019

ICMR finalizes India’s first National Essential Diagnostics List

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has finalized India’s first National Essential Diagnostics List (NEDL). With this, India has become the first country to compile such list that...

August 19, 2019

Mount Pinatubo

Mount Pinatubo is an active stratovolcano located on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, near the boundaries of the provinces of Zambales, Tarlac, and Pampanga. It is...

August 19, 2019

MoHUA organises National Workshop on Sustainable Sanitation

Union Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA) organized a one day National Workshop Cum Exhibition on Sustainable Sanitation at Vigyan Bhawan on 19 August 2019. The Chief...

August 19, 2019

Noctiluca algae

The Noctiluca scintillans (or the Noctiluca miliaris) algae which is more commonly referred to as the sea sparkle is a free-ranging marine species of dinoflagellate algae. It has...

August 19, 2019

President inaugurates underground Bunker Museum at Raj Bhavan Mumbai

President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated underground ‘Bunker Museum‘ at the Raj Bhavan (official residence of the Governor of Maharashtra) in state capital Mumbai. The 15,000 square feet museum...

August 19, 2019

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