News Snippets

1 NARA (National Ambition + Regional Aspirations)

2 Telangana Enhances Rythu Bandhu Scheme

3 One Citizen One Tree Campaign

4 Outcry over Article 371(A)

5 Retired Officers Digital Records Archive (RODRA)

6 Legal Person Status to Animals

7 Delhi Metro: India’s first metro to Receive Power from Waste-to-Energy

8 Ratification of OECD’s Multilateral Convention to Check Tax Evasion

9 National Freight Index

10 India Notifies Tax Info Exchange Pact with Marshall Islands

11 India to Add 500 GW Renewable Energy by 2030

12 GI Tag for Kolhapuri Chappals

13 India No Longer World’s Fastest Growing Economy

14 French Railways to Develop Indian Railway Stations

15 US-Iran Stand-off Escalates

16 Strawberry Moon 2019

17 ICANN, NASSCOM Collaborate to Develop Technology, Standards for IoT

18 IRENA released Report titled ‘Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2018’

19 New Wasp Species Identified in Goa

20 El Salvador Recognises Forests as Living Entities

21 Indian Navy Environment Conservation Roadmap (INECR)

22 Bihar Government bans Tree-Felling

23 Scientists Unravel the Fungus Responsible for Sheath Blight Disease in Rice

24 Jewel-weeds Yields 20 New Species

25 Vaishno Devi Shrine to have its own Disaster Response Force by 2020

26 Indian Army installs Air Quality Monitor at Fort Williams