Initiatives for Primary Agricultural Credit Societies

India is to increase the number of its PACS (Primary Agricultural Credit Societies) to two lakhs in the next five years. There is a plan to create multi-purpose PACS in panchayats. Many... Read more »

Global Wage Report

The“Global Wage Report 2022-2023: The Impact of inflation and COVID-19 on wages and purchasing power” report is released by the International Labour Organization. The report says that the global wages declined in... Read more »

Global Water Resources Report 2022

The first State of Global Water Resources Report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to assess the impact of environmental, climatic and social changes on the world’s water resources. Its objective is... Read more »

Mandatory Eco-sensitive Zone for the protection of forests in India: SC

The Apex Court directed that every protected forest, national park and wildlife sanctuary across India should have a mandatory eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) of minimum 1 km, starting from demarcated boundaries. This direction... Read more »

Amazon Forest nears alarming ‘Tipping Point’

Amazon forest is losing its ability to recover from disturbances such as drought, wildfire and human development, researchers say. The Amazon rainforest is teetering on the precipice of a dangerous tipping point,... Read more »

Coexistence of Modern humans and Neanderthals

A discovery of a child’s tooth and stone tools in a cave in southern France suggests Homo sapiens was in western Europe about 54,000 years ago.That is several thousands of years earlier... Read more »

Green Hydrogen Policy of India

Green hydrogen is hydrogen gas produced through electrolysis of water — an energy intensive process for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen— using renewable power to achieve this. The new policy offers... Read more »

Food grains Production to reach a Record High

The total food grains production in the country is expected to reach an all-time record high of 316.06 million tonnes as per the Second Advance Estimates of production of major crops for... Read more »

Survey on Learning Loss

The Ministry of Education in India conducted a survey to learn about the education losses during COVID times. The survey was conducted in November 2021. Three districts of Andhra Pradesh and 16... Read more »

Lipulekh boundary Issue

India is currently widening the road to the Lipulekh pass. The Nepalese ruling party recently issued a statement objecting this. Also, Nepal has demanded India to withdraw its troops in the region.... Read more »