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India In Brief

1 ​44th General Assembly of the Olympic Council of Asia

2 ​State Finance Commission

3 ​Quality Council of India (QCI)

4 ​e-Shram Portal

5 ​National Test House (NTH)

6 ​Public Account Committee (PAC)

7 ​NCLAT

8 ​Core Programme

9 ​Asian Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI)

10 ​Indian Association for Gold Excellence & Standard

11 ​Surrogate Advertising

12 ​Price Monitoring System App

13 ​National Medical Register (NMR) Portal

14 ​BoCW Management Information System (MIS) Portal

15 ​E-Upahaar Portal

16 ​Asia’s First "Pre-clinical Network Facility"

17 ​Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C)

18 ​NIRMAN Portal

19 ​Bhusanket Web Portal

20 ​e-Samridhi Portal

21 ​Enemy Agents Ordinance, 2005

22 ​General Anti-avoidance Rule (GAAR)

23 ​Fast Track Immigration Trusted Traveller Programme (FTI-TTP)

24 ​Nifty Non-Cyclical Consumer Index Fund

25 ​NTIPRIT

26 ​ECI’s Guidelines for Ethical Social Media Use in Campaigns

27 ​National Savings Certificate (NSC) Scheme

28 ​D-voters

29 ​Khanij Bidesh India Limited (KABIL)

30 National Workshop on World Intellectual Property Day

31 ​Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi (RAN) Scheme

32 National Service Scheme

33 Indelible Ink

34 National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC)

35 National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF)

36 Border Roads Organisation (BRO)

37 Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA)

38 National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC)

39 e-shram Portal

40 c-VIGIL App

41 Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)

42 Community Radio in India

43 Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT)

44 New Campus of NACIN inaugurated in Andhra Pradesh

45 Uttar Pradesh leads in Implementing ICJS

46 National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO)

47 e-SAKSHI Application

48 National Legal Services Authority (NALSA)

49 Financial Intelligence Unit India

50 Leaders and Chief Whips of Recognised Parties and Groups in Parliament (Facilities) Act, 1998

51 Central Goods and Services Tax (Second Amendment) Act, 2023

52 Vidya Samiksha Kendra

53 Anticipatory Bail

54 Article 311(2) (C)

55 Aeronautical Society of India (AeSI)

56 Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP)

57 National Press Day

58 Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT)

59 Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra

60 Mandatory Penny-Drop Verification for NPS

61 Section 106 of the Indian Evidence Act (1872)

62 Special Leave Petitions

63 Poorvottar Sampark Setu

64 ‘Skills on Wheels' Initiative

65 Samvidhan Sadan

66 Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT)

67 International Lawyer’s Conference 2023

68 Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)

69 First UrbanShift Forum (Asia)

70 Digital House of Gujarat Assembly

71 Project Naman

72 Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO)

73 100% Open Defecation Free (ODF) Plus Coverage

74 Nagaland: First State in North Eastern Region to Initiate Aadhaar Linked Birth Registration

75 Gun Jumping

76 Khelo India Centres

77 PUShP Portal

78 Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)

79 National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG)

80 Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC)

81 National Space Day

82 Lokniti-CSDS

83 Maritime State Development Council (MSDC)

84 Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)

85 Tele-Law 2.0

86 Central Registrar of Cooperative Societies (CRCS)

87 Panel of Vice-Chairpersons in Rajya Sabha

88 Permanent Aadhaar Enrolment Centre (PAEC)

89 Prime Minister’s Development Initiative for North Eastern Region (PM-DevINE)

90 Vibrant Villages Programme

91 Income Tax Day (24th July)

92 Right to Silence

93 AuditOnline

94 District Mineral Foundation

95 Electoral Bonds (EBs)

96 Capacity Building Commission(CBC)

97 Dani-Pani Initiative

98 Julley Ladakh (Hello Ladakh)

99 Digital Publisher Content Grievances Council (DPCGC)

100 UTPRERAK

101 Sagar Samajik Sahayyog

102 ISO COPOLCO Plenary

103 Sanchar Saathi Initiative

104 Operation Dhvast

105 Article 355

106 National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG)

107 Data Governance Quality Index (DGQI)

108 Dotted Lands

109 Food Safety and Compliance System (FOSCOS)

110 Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO)

111 Safe City Project

112 Unified Portal of Central Bureau of Narcotics

113 National Generic Document Registration System (NGDRS)

114 National Technology Centre for Ports, Waterways & Coasts (NTCPWC)

115 Bharat Tap Initiative

116 Unique Land Parcel Identification Number (ULPIN)

117 Special Courts for Member of Parliament (MP) and Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA)

118 Operation Trishul

119 Demand for Grants

120 ‘Call Before u Dig’ (CBuD) App

121 Central Bureau of Narcotics (CBN)

122 Indian Dairy Association (IDA)

123 Hue and Cry Notice

124 Caveat

125 37th Statehood Day of Arunachal Pradesh

126 eSanjeevani

127 Aadhaar Mitra

128 Advocate Act of 1961

129 Yuva Sangam Portal

130 National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS) App

131 Alderman

132 Status of Aadhaar Linking in India

133 Aspirational Block Programme (ABP)

134 Project ELLORA

135 PM CARES Fund

136 Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC)

137 Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)

138 SMART Program

139 Content Regulation in Government Advertising (CCRGA)

140 Prahari App

141 Right-to-Repair Portal

142 National E-Governance Services Limited (NeSL)

143 Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA)

144 Article 170

145 Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA)

146 New Delhi International Arbitration Centre (NDIAC)

147 Dredging Corporation of India (DCI)

148 Criteria for National Party Status

149 eGramSwaraj

150 Petroleum Natural Gas Regulatory Board

151 Gram Nyayalayas

152 Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR)

153 National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA)

154 Football4Schools Initiative

155 Representation of People (Amendment) Act, 2010

156 National Security Council (NSC)

157 Doctrine of Proportionality

158 Controller General of Accounts

159 Swachhta Saarthi Samaroh

160 SCALE App

161 National Sports Development Fund

162 Article 174

163 Central Public Health and Environmental Engineering Organisation (CPHEEO)

164 Zonal Councils

165 National Cancer Grid (NCG)

166 Central Universities Endowment Fund (CUEF)

167 Composite Floor Test

168 Floor Test

169 Smart India Hackathon (SIH)

170 Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA)

171 Samta Nyay Kendras

172 National Awards Portal

173 Jayant Banthia Commission

174 Kangaroo Court

175 Special Mentions

176 India State Support Program for Road Safety

177 Registered Unrecognised Political Parties (RUPP)

178 National Tribal Research Institute (NTRI)

179 Press Council of India

180 Masked Aadhar

181 Statehood Day of Goa

182 Indus Waters Treaty

183 ‘Ayurveda Aahara’ Products

184 Scheme of Medical Certification of Cause of Death (MCCD)

185 91st Amendment Act

186 National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme

187 Sixth Schedule of the Constitution

188 Vernacular Innovation Program (VIP)

189 e-BCAS Project

190 Tour of Duty Scheme

191 International Election Visitors Programme (IEVP)

192 National Pension System (NPS)

193 National Conference on Economics of Competition Law

194 I-STEM National Portal

195 National Bee Board (NBB)

196 Dies-non

197 System for Pension Administration (Raksha) (SPARSH)

198 Non-lapsable Modernisation Fund for Defence and Internal Security (MFDIS)

199 Justice Clock

200 Factoring

201 Trade Defence Wing (TDW)

202 ESG Fund

203 Adjournment Sine Die

204 Juvenile Justice Board

205 Special Court

206 Smart Policing

207 Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF)

208 Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages of India SPPEL

209 Nagaland Statehood Day

210 International Training Modules on Election Management

211 Mysuru Declaration on Service Delivery by Panchayats

212 Anticipatory Bail

213 Declared Foreigner

214 Right to Information Act 2005

215 Permanent Resident Certificate(PRC)

216 Gambling Regulations in India

217 Chief Minister

218 Central Information Commission

219 Dismissal of J&K Govt Employees

220 Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act (CEA) 2010

221 News Snippets

222 Task Force for Mission Karmayogi

223 Attorney General of India

224 UN CEO’s Water Mandate

225 News Snippets

226 Native Languages

227 World Press Freedom Index, 2021

228 Women and Men in India Report 2020

229 News Snippets

230 Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order (Amendment) Bill, 2021

231 Dandi March

232 Ayushman Bharat Schemes Reaches Milestone Before Time

233 Sugamya Bharat App

234 Rights of OCI Cardholders

235 News Snippets

236 News Snippets

237 Special Marriage Act

238 Patharu Ghat Uprising

239 Institutions of Eminence Allowed to Set Up Campus Abroad

240 Education Ministry Guidelines to Identify and Educate Migrant Children

241 Maharashtra-Karnataka border Dispute

242 Parakram Diwas to Commemorate Birth Anniversary of Subhas Chandra Bose

243 Entire Nagaland Declared ‘Disturbed Area’ under AFSPA

244 E-Sampada Mobile App

245 Revealing Names of Electoral Bond Donors against Public Interest-CIC

246 Scheduled Castes Post-Matric Scholarship Plan Amended

247 State of the Education Report for India 2020: Vocational Education First

248 NITI Aayog’s ‘Vision 2035: Public Health Surveillance in India’

249 Goddess Annapurna Idol

250 E-Lok Adalat

251 Indian Medicine Central Council (Post Graduate Ayurveda Education) Amendment Regulations, 2020

252 Kerala Police Act 2011 Amendment

253 Right to Recall Panchayat Member

254 Tamil Nadu Governor Gives Assent to Bill on 7.5% Medical Reservation

255 Child Care Leavesfor Male Single Parents in Government Services

256 NPPA Caps Medical Oxygen Price

257 TRIFED Initiatives for Tribal Welfare

258 Union Cabinet Approves Adoption of Jammu and Kashmir Panchayati Raj Act

259 Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Act

260 Global Smart City Index 2020

261 Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda Bill 2020

262 National Medical Commission

263 KIRAN Helpline Service for Mental Health Rehabilitation

264 Narmadashankar Dave 'Narmad'

265 Govt Issues order for Permanent Commission of Women Officers in Army

266 IND-SAT Programme

267 NISHTHA Programme

268 Committee on Criminal Law Reforms

269 SC Ruling on Reservations for Divyangjan

270 Draft Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Rules, 2020

271 India's sex ratio at Birth Improves

272 Plea for Renaming India as ‘Bharat’ can go to Centre as representation: Supreme Court

273 Gairsain Declared as Summer Capital of Uttarakhand

274 State Food Safety Index 2019-20

275 TULIP Internship Portal for Graduates

276 Human-Rights Body Seeks Relief for Starving Chakmas and Hajongs

277 Governor’s Rule Imposed in Assam’s Bodoland Territorial Area Districts

278 MHRD Launches “Samadhan" Challenge to Fight Against COVID-19 & Fu-ture Challenges

279 Agriculture Minister Launches “The Saras Collection” on GeM Portal to Provide SHGs in Rural Areas

280 HRD Ministry to Set up Dedicated Research and Innovation Division

281 Amid lockdown, Tripura Groups Protest Bru Settlement

282 J&K Notifies Amended Domicile Certificate Rules

283 PM-CARES: An Emergency Relief Fund

284 Section 188 IPC Invoked for Violating COVID-19 Lockdown

285 Army Launches Operation Namaste to Combat COVID-19

286 SC Clears Permanent Commission for Women in Navy

287 Ease of Living Index and Municipal Performance Index 2019 Launched

288 Cabinet Approves Formation of 22nd Law Commission

289 Second National Judicial Pay Commission Report

290 India Plummets to 51st rank in Democracy Index

291 India Slipped two Places in Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI-2019)

292 Commissionerate System of Policing Approved for Lucknow and Noida

293 Meghalaya Makes Registration Mandatory for Non-Resident Visitors

294 Electoral Bonds: Safeguards of Indian Democracy Falling Apart

295 Bru Repatriation: Back to Mizoram

296 Operation Dolphin’s Nose Unearths Pakistan-Linked Spying Racket

297 Ethics Panel Set to Form Code of Conduct for Lok Sabha MPs

298 Parliament Passes Bill to Extend SC/ST Reservations in Legislatures

299 Legal Person Status to Animals

300 Retired Officers Digital Records Archive (RODRA)

301 Outcry over Article 371(A)

302 One Citizen One Tree Campaign

303 Telangana Enhances Rythu Bandhu Scheme

304 NARA (National Ambition + Regional Aspirations)

305 Punjab bans Online Food Delivery without Hygiene Rating

306 NITI Aayog’s Proposal for Artificial Intelligence Platform

307 Karnataka and Maharashtra Cabinet Approves Cloud Seeding Programme

308 Meghalaya to Set up Farmer’s Commission

309 Telangana signs Sister City Agreement with Indonesia

310 Pumping Units Commissioned at Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme

311 Ongole Cattle Breed

312 Maharashtra Second State to get ICJS

313 India Owed the Highest in Unpaid Dues for UN Peacekeeping

314 Supreme Court Declares Right to Travel Abroad a Basic Human Right

315 Kerala’s Pathanamthitta-Best Constituency in India

316 Rani Abbakka Force : Women Police Patrol Vehicle

317 Utkarsh Bangla Scheme Gets UN Award

318 Mobile App for Families of Martyred CRPF Troops

319 Supreme Court Directed to Provide Electoral Bond Donations' Details

320 Monk's Exclusive Lok Sabha Seat

321 Green Audit Launched at Meenachil River

322 Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Institute of Archaeology

323 Assam Launches Initiative to Educate Voters

324 Polling Stations in Mizoram for Bru Refugees

325 First Transgender Election Ambassador

326 Arunachal Pradesh Government says no to Permanent Resident Certificates (PRCs)

327 Mizoram passes Maintenance of Household Registers Bill, 2019

328 Women’s Livelihood Bond

329 The RTE (Second Amendment) Bill, 2017

330 National Health Authority

331 Supreme Court Order on Faculty Quota

332 15th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas Convention

333 Integrated Check Post at Moreh

334 The First Ever Swadesh Darshan Project in Nagaland

335 UN to Inventorise India’s Cultural Riches

336 Sale of Enemy Shares

337 Ayodhya Deepotsav given State Fair Tag

338 Kanyashree Scheme

339 Fit India Movement

340 HP Passes Bill against Forced Conversion

341 Safe Cities Index (SCI) 2019

342 Karnataka Govt. pulls gears up to promote over 40 GI Products

343 Green Signal to Death Penalty for ‘Honour Killing’ in Rajasthan

344 Rajasthan gears up with a Law Against Mob Lynching

345 UP transferred 17 OBCs to SC Category

346 Andhra Pradesh gives Locals 75% Reservation in Private Jobs

347 Operation Thirst

348 Vivekadeepini

349 Kharchi Puja Festival

350 Expansion of Internet Saathi Programme

351 Telangana to Use Drone in Drug Delivery

352 Nagaland puts Indigenous Registry on Hold

353 Ban on Antibiotic Colistin

354 Market Intervention Scheme

355 Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana to get Programme Management Unit

356 National Animal Disease Control Programme (NADCP)

Economy In Brief

1 ​WTO Goods Trade Barometer

2 ​Rangeen Machli App

3 ​Technical Textiles

4 ​Financialisation

5 ​BHASKAR Portal

6 ​India’s First Geothermal Power Project

7 ​JAL VIDYUT DPR Portal

8 ​Kasturi Cotton Bharat

9 ​10th National Handloom Day

10 ​Parivesh Portal

11 National Apprenticeship and Training Scheme (NATS) 2.0 Portal

12 ​Asset Management Companies

13 ​Interest Subvention Scheme for Agricultural Loans

14 Portal for Online Monitoring of Projects – Thermal (PROMPT)

15 ​Prime Minister’s WiFi Access Network Interface (PM-WANI) Scheme

16 ​PM-Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana

17 ​Steel Import Monitoring System 2.0 Portal

18 ​Equalisation Levy

19 ​Angel Tax

20 ​National District Mineral Foundation (DMF) Portal

21 ​RBI’s Financial Inclusion Index

22 ​Greenium

23 ​Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC)

24 ​Bio-bitumen

25 ​Variable Rate Repo (VRR)

26 ​External Debt of India

27 ​Front Running

28 ​Container Port Performance Index (CPPI)

29 ​NIPL Partnership with Central Reserve Bank of Peru

30 ​Indian Tea Association (ITA)

31 Telecom Design Collaboration Sprint

32 ​POWERGRID Accorded ATD BEST Awards

33 ​Co-lending

34 ​SBI becomes First Trading-Clearing Member of IIBX

35 ​Drip Pricing

36 Pig Butchering Scams

37 ​HD 3386

38 ​Cost Inflation Index (CII)

39 Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port

40 India's Coal and Lignite Production Hits All-time High

41 Spices Board India

42 ​Imported Inflation

43 GRID-INDIA

44 Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (CPCRI)

45 Rice Bran

46 Irrigation as a Service (IaaS)

47 Domestic Systemically Important Insurers (D-SIIs)

48 Financial Stability and Development Council FSDC

49 Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC)

50 Retail Inflation

51 World’s First Pigeon Pea Speed Breeding Protocol

52 K-Shaped Recovery

53 Atal Setu

54 Tasar Silk

55 Punganur Cow

56 National Housing Bank (NHB)

57 National Startup Day 2024

58 Methanol Diesel-15 fuel (MD15)

59 National Cooperative Exports Limited (NCEL)

60 Paat-Mitro

61 National Research Centre on Litchi (NRCL)

62 Government e-Market (GeM) Portal

63 REC wins Best Employer in Diversity & Inclusion Award

64 Bengaluru Leads with 1,783 Women-Led Startups

65 “Hello Naariyal"

66 Udangudi Panangkarupatti

67 National Waterways 44

68 Small Savings Instruments (SSIs)

69 Overnight Index Swap (OIS)

70 Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC)

71 Kisan Rin Portal

72 One CGIAR Global Initiative

73 Arunachal Yak Churpi

74 Card-on-File Tokenization (CoFT)

75 Automatic 'Status Holder' Certificates

76 National Turmeric Board

77 Vizhinjam International Seaport

78 Kisan Rin Portal

79 FAO Food Price Index

80 RoDTEP Scheme

81 SARFAESI Act, 2002

82 Unified Portal for Agricultural Statistics

83 Koraput Kalajeera Rice

84 Vizhinjam International Seaport

85 Asian Premium

86 Dibang Multipurpose Project

87 Cott-Ally App

88 IFFCO Nano DAP

89 Multi-tracking Projects for Indian Railways

90 Rajmargyatra App

91 Foreign Exchange Reserves

92 Government e-Marketplace (GeM)

93 Mushkbudji Rice

94 Matti Banana

95 Derivatives

96 National Cooperative Consumers Federation of India (NCCF)

97 Greenfield Airport

98 Gramodyog Vikas Yojana (GVY)

99 Annapurti

100 Rights Issue

101 New Wheat Variety (PBW RS1)

102 Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF)

103 National Coal Index (NCI)

104 Urea Gold

105 Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI)

106 SEBI Complaints Redress System (SCORES)

107 NOC Approval for New Drug and Inoculation System (NANDI) Portal

108 PM KISAN App

109 CHAMPIONS 2.0 Portal

110 Star Rating for Coal and Lignite Mines

111 National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development (NaBFID)

112 Dugdh Sankalan Sathi App

113 Project Kuber

114 ANTARDRISHTI

115 Greedflation

116 Hawkish Pause

117 Implied Volatility

118 Bharat EMart

119 Project-SMART

120 Panch Karma Sankalp

121 Sagar Parikrama Yatra Phase-V

122 Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN)

123 Clean Note Policy

124 National Industrial Corridor Development and Implementation Trust (NICDIT)

125 Exchange Traded Commodity Derivatives (ETCDs)

126 One Station One Product (OSOP)

127 Raising and Accelerating MSME Performance(RAMP) scheme

128 Lightweight Payments System

129 Held-to-Maturity (HTM)Securities

130 Round Tripping

131 Snowball Effect

132 Cellular Agriculture

133 Parvatmala Pariyojana

134 Unified Logistics Interface Platform (ULIP)

135 Front Running

136 Core Investment Companies (CICs)

137 Kangra Tea

138 Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products (RoDTEP)

139 Green Shoe Option

140 Canalisation of Import and Export

141 DigiClaim Platform

142 Rubber Board

143 Data Centre and Cybersecurity Training Institute

144 Credit Default Swaps (CDS)

145 Long-Term Capital Gains (LTCG)

146 Har Payment Digital

147 InfoCrop

148 Mulethi (Licorice)

149 Clean Plant Program

150 International Centre of Excellence for Dams (ICED)

151 QR Code-Based Coin Vending Machine

152 Conformity Assessment Scheme on IS 19000:2022

153 Jantri

154 Nau-Anaj

155 ASCEND Samagam

156 Sunni Dam Hydro Electric Project

157 REWARD Program

158 Pashu Sakhi

159 Open Market Sale Scheme (OMSS)

160 Flipping & Reverse Flipping

161 Agriculture Insurance Company of India Limited (AIC)

162 Lighthouse Certification

163 Qualified Institutional Placement (QIP)

164 Krishi-Decision Support System (Krishi-DSS)

165 Kasturi Cotton

166 Stress Testing

167 Mahila Coir Yojana (MCY)

168 Agriculture Investment Portal

169 Rules of Origin

170 Rights Issue

171 Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF)

172 Scheme for Procurement of Aggregate Power

173 Banking Regulation Act, 1949

174 Central Depository Services Limited (CDSL)

175 Friendshoring

176 Self-Reliant India (SRI) Fund

177 Controller General of Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks

178 Indian Chemical Council (ICC)

179 National Council for Cement and Building Materials (NCB)

180 Tobin Tax

181 Niveshak Didi

182 Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC)

183 Nihonshu

184 Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)

185 AVGAS 100LL

186 Board of Trade (BOT)

187 Coconut Development Board

188 Fund of Funds for Startups

189 World’s First CNG Terminal

190 Advance Tax

191 Goldilock Scenario

192 Central Electricity Regulatory Commission

193 Silk Mark

194 Mithila Makhana

195 Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP)

196 Soft Peg and Hard Peg Exchange Rate Policy

197 Median Income

198 Cantillon Effect

199 Reverse Auction

200 Consumer Price Index for Industrial Worker (CPI-IW)

201 White Onion

202 Camo-Cropping

203 Post Devolution Revenue Deficit Grant

204 Bond Yield Curve Inversion

205 Reverse Currency War

206 Soft-Landing

207 NIRYAT Information Portal

208 Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI)

209 GST Composition Scheme

210 Project Bandhan

211 Input Tax Credit

212 Cost Inflation Index (CII)

213 Economic Calculation Problem

214 Paper Import Monitoring System (PIMS)

215 Indian Gas Exchange (IGX)

216 Foreign Investment Facilitation Portal

217 BP Kanungo Committee

218 Storage Gain

219 Passive Funds

220 Sharing Economy

221 National Time Release Study 2022

222 Precast Concrete

223 Plastic Export Promotion Council

224 National Open Access Registry

225 Parboiled Rice

226 PSN Rao Committee

227 Poison Pill

228 Sovereign Debt

229 Anchor Investors

230 Kaji Nemu

231 ‘Meri Policy Mere Haath’ Campaign

232 Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH)

233 Market Intervention Scheme (MIS)

234 Padkai Farming

235 Kalanamak Paddy

236 Venture Capital

237 Tax Loss Harvesting

238 Predatory Pricing

239 Sagar Parikrama Program

240 T+1 Settlement Cycle

241 National Land Monetisation Corporation

242 Panruti Cashew

243 Angadia System

244 Department of Financial Services

245 Disinvestment

246 Gross Value Added (GVA)

247 Formosa Bond

248 First Advance Estimates(FAE) of GDP

249 Barbell Strategy

250 Government Capital Expenditure (Capex)

251 NSE Prime

252 Certificate of Origin (CoO)

253 Value at Risk (VaR)

254 Additional Tier-1 bonds (AT-1 Bonds)

255 Banni Buffalo

256 Credit Default Swap

257 Unicorns

258 Foreign Portfolio Investment (FPI)

259 Comprehensive Handicrafts Cluster Development Scheme (CHCDS)

260 Sovereign Credit Rating

261 Price Stabilization Fund

262 Palk Bay Scheme

263 National Road Safety Board (NRSB)

264 Stagflation

265 Decentralised Finance (DeFi)

266 Prompt Corrective Action (PCA)

267 Atmanirbhar Bharat Corner

268 Regulatory Sandbox

269 nFiNi

270 Input Tax Credit (ITC)

271 SPIN Scheme

272 AT1 Bonds

273 Bhalia Wheat

274 Post Devolution Revenue Deficit Grant

275 Open Network Digital Commerce

276 News Snippets

277 Seed Minikit Programme

278 Current Account Deficit

279 Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI)

280 National Statistics Day 2021

281 India Joins OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework Tax Deal

282 News Snippets

283 India Recorded highest ever FDI Inflow

284 Kharif Strategy 2021

285 Dip in Revenue Receipts

286 Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules 2011

287 Di-ammonium Phosphate

288 On Tap Licenses for Banks

289 Draft Rules for Road-Trains

290 News Snippets

291 Bombay Plan

292 Model State for Van Dhan Vikas Yojana

293 First Anniversary of Formation of 1000 Farmer Producer Organisations

294 Sovereign Credit Ratings

295 Implementation of Kotak Committee Recommendations

296 RBI Announces Committee to Evaluate Applications for Universal and Small Finance Banks

297 CSIR Floriculture Mission

298 Serious Fraud Investigation Office

299 News Snippets

300 Budget Propose to Privatize Two Banks

301 World Pulses Day

302 MCA Amends One Person Companies Rule

303 One Nation One Ration Card

304 Make In India 2.0

305 Expert Committee on Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks

306 Accommodative Monetary Policy

307 Start-up India Seed Fund Scheme

308 DPIIT Launches Regulatory Compliance Portal

309 SEBI Moots Entry Norms to Set Up Stock Exchanges

310 Asset Monetization Programmes

311 Third phase of PM Kaushal Vikas Yojana Launched

312 Freight Business Development Portal

313 TRIFOOD Parks to be Set up in Madhya Pradesh

314 Single Window Clearance System for Coal Mines

315 Ratle Hydro Power Project

316 RBI Fully Operationalizes ‘College of Supervisors’

317 CBIC Introduces Liberalised Authorised Economic Operator Package for MSMEs

318 RBI Constitutes Working Group on Digital Lending

319 IFSCA Become Associate Member of IOSCO

320 K-shaped Economic Recovery

321 Jagananna Jeeva Kranthi Scheme

322 India’s first 100 Octane Petrol Launched

323 Directorate of Revenue Intelligence

324 Electricity (Rights of Consumers) Rules, 2020

325 Draft Indian Ports Bill 2020

326 Draft National Rail Plan

327 DaKPay

328 New Infrastructure Projects Approved by CCEA

329 Arunachal Kiwi

330 Frontier Highway Project

331 Negative-Yield Bonds

332 Open Acreage Licensing Policy

333 Sahakar Pragya

334 Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor

335 Innovation Hub for Financial Sector

336 Kumhar Sashaktikaran Yojana

337 Kisan Suryodaya Yojana

338 Asia's Longest Ropeway Project on Mount Girnar Inaugurated

339 Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog

340 Force Majeure Clause

341 e-Gopala App

342 Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor Project

343 Government Proposes to Make FASTag Mandatory

344 Krishi Megh

345 First Silk Production Center in Arunachal Pradesh

346 Food System Vision Prize-2020

347 Sin Goods and Sin Tax

348 Sahakar Cooptube Channel

349 Draft Rules for Code on Wages

350 ASEEM Portal for Skilled Workforces

351 Indian Council of Agricultural Research

352 AIM-iCREST

353 National Fish Farmers Day

354 Unified Gas Price System

355 Scheme for promotion of Bulk Drug Parks

356 Financial Management Index for Rural Development Programmes

357 Atma Nirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge

358 Godhan Nyay Yojana

359 SATAT Initiative

360 ShweOil &Gas Project

361 Sahakar Mitra Scheme

362 Credit Guarantee Scheme for Subordinate Debt

363 SATYABHAMA Portal

364 Online Platform for Issuance of Certificate of Origin

365 Kisan Rath Mobile App

366 Ways and Means Advances

367 Biofortified Carrot Variety

368 Atmanirbhar Gujarat Sahay Yojana- Gujarat Self Reliant Scheme

369 Bharatmarket: National e-Commerce Marketplace

370 CHAMPIONS: Technology Platform to Empower MSMEs

371 Country-by-Country Report

372 Invest India Business Immunity Platform

373 ARI-516 - New Hybrid Variety of Grapes

374 Whitefly Resistant Cotton Variety

375 Bhoomi Rashi Portal

376 Government to Create Investment Clearance Cell

377 RBI to Release Digital Payment Index by July 2020

378 Government Approval for Farmer Producer Organizations

379 World Bank Assistance for Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor

380 Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission Celebrates 4th Anniversary

381 Project Monitoring Group Portal

382 Cooperative Banks to Come Under RBI Purview

383 Farmer’s Innovation Fund

384 India Not to Allow Imports without HSN Code

385 International Seed Treaty

386 Standing Committee on Economic Statistics

387 eBkray- Common e-Auction Platform

388 French Railways to Develop Indian Railway Stations

389 India No Longer World’s Fastest Growing Economy

390 GI Tag for Kolhapuri Chappals

391 India to Add 500 GW Renewable Energy by 2030

392 India Notifies Tax Info Exchange Pact with Marshall Islands

393 National Freight Index

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

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

396 BOPET Film Demand in India to Grow 10% in Next 5 Years

397 Centre decides to merge CSO and NSSO into a National Statistical Office

398 CBDT and GSTN Sign Pact to Share Data

399 Centre of Excellence for Waste to Wealth Technologies

400 Yellow Rust Fungus

401 15th Finance Panel Needs to Reconcile Data

402 Boost to Unnat Bharat Abhiyan

403 Anti-dumping duty put on Saccharine Import

404 SEBI allows FPI Investment in Municipal Bond

405 Kiru Hydro Electric Project, Jammu and Kashmir

406 Teesta Stage-VI Hydro Electric Project, Sikkim

407 Buxar Thermal Power Project in Bihar

408 Khurja Super Thermal Power Project in Uttar Pradesh

409 First Workshop on India Energy Modelling Forum

410 Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh get new National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) Benches

411 India, Paraguay Agree to Promote Bilateral Investment

412 YONO Cash: India’s First Cardless ATM

413 India & Brunei ink Tax Information Exchange Agreement

414 Customs Overseas Intelligence Network (COIN)

415 India Highest Recipient of Remittances In 2018: World Bank

416 India-Bhutan Finalized Mangdecchu Hydro Project’s Power Tariff Protocol

417 Pan Nation Electricity Mobile App: ‘Jagruk’

418 India, Sweden Pact on Solutions for Smart Cities & Clean Technology

419 Bamboo Rice Shows Up In Odisha After Four Decades

420 RBI Extends Ombudsman Scheme to Non-deposit taking NBFCs

421 Creation of Additional Posts in NCLAT for Speedy Case Disposal

422 Learning Coin: A Cryptocurrency Token of IMF and World Bank

423 ‘Kandhamal Haldi’ gets GI Tag

424 Bank of Baroda Becomes Second Largest Bank After SBI

425 Three Banks Taken out of the PCA framework

426 ‘SWAYATT’ on GeM

427 42 Non-scheduled Cancer Drugs under Price Control

428 Interim Dividend by RBI

429 Oil Supply Deal

430 Rise in Crop Failures Predicted in Ganga Basin States

431 NFRA Rules Notified

432 International Standards and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

433 NPCC is Now a Miniratna

434 Paisa – Portal

435 Capacity Expansion of Numaligarh Refinery

436 PMRPY Crosses the Milestone

437 RBI Eases ECB Norms

438 Parliamentary Panel Report Uranium Mines

439 Jan Shikshan Santhans (JSS)

440 Only Indian Port on Top 30 List

441 India Replaces Japan as 2nd Top Steel Producer

442 Online portal “ENSURE” to connect with Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) launched

443 Maharatna Status Granted to HPCL and Power Grid

444 World Cotton Day

445 KABIL Set up to Ensure Supply of Critical Minerals

446 Government Mandates Used Cooking Oil for Biodiesel

447 Alignment of Financial Year of RBI with Govt.’s Fiscal Year

448 Merger of 10 Public Sector Banks into Four

449 Pradham Mantri Laghu Vyapari Yojana

450 Textile Ministry Signs MoU for Skill Training

451 SARAL Index Launched

452 Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana-lll (PMGSY-III) gets Cabinet Approval

453 Kerala Moots Investment Company for Non-Resident Keralites

454 ‘One Nation One Ration Card’ Scheme

455 Task Force for Identifying Infrastructure Projects

456 State-run Companies to Make Green Energy Parks

Society In Brief

1 ​Poshan Tracker Initiative

2 ​Konyak Tribe

3 ​Kawasaki Disease

4 ​Food Import Rejection Alert (FIRA) Portal

5 ​Dhangar Tribe

6 ​Thadou Tribes

7 ​Right to be Forgotten

8 ​Panchamasali Lingayats

9 ​Saubhagya Scheme

10 ​Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM)

11 ​Poori Padhai Desh Ki Bhalai

12 ​Safai Apnao, Bimaari Bhagao Initiative

13 ​Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY)

14 ​Child in Conflict with Law (CCL)

15 NTPC Launches New Edition of Girl Empowerment Mission

16 Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS)

17 ​UN Women

18 Hepatitis B

19 Zero Food Children

20 PM-SURAJ Portal

21 Shompen Tribe

22 Footballs for Schools (F4S)

23 Anuvadini App

24 Kolam Tribes

25 Farsi included as a Classical Language under NEP

26 TechSaksham

27 Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana (SSY)

28 Odisha declared Leprosy a ‘Reportable Disease’

29 SAANS Campaign 2023-24 for Pneumonia Prevention

30 MedTech Mitra

31 National Capital Territory of Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Second (Amendment) Act, 2023

32 National Tribal Research Institute (NTRI)

33 Nayi Chetna – 2.0

34 WHO’s Commission on Social Connection

35 National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO)

36 Tribal Youth Exchange Programme

37 Madiga Sub-Categorization

38 Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY)

39 Amazon WoW (Women of the World)

40 Jehovah’s Witnesses

41 UMEED Scheme

42 Saras Aajeevika Mela

43 Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) Report 2022-2023

44 Civil Union

45 Ayushman Bhav Campaign

46 Sarna Religious Code

47 Kunbi Caste Certificates

48 Scholarship Schemes for Minorities

49 MASI Portal

50 Meo Muslims

51 Study In India (SII) Portal

52 Preeclampsia

53 Pradhan Mantri Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan

54 Direct Incentive Disbursement

55 Lakhpati Didi Scheme

56 Mpower Measures

57 The Constitution (Jammu and Kashmir) Scheduled Tribes Order (Amendment) Bill, 2023

58 The Constitution (J&K) Scheduled Castes Order (Amendment) Bill, 2023

59 The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order (Amendment) Bill, 2023

60 Social Trailblazer Program

61 Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana (AVYAY)

62 Sanipreneurs

63 Palliative Care

64 Stop TB Partnership

65 National Commission for Women

66 Controlled Human Infection Studies

67 ULLAS (Understanding Lifelong Learning for All in Society)

68 National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC)

69 Divya Kala Mela 2023

70 Helen Keller Day

71 Pradhan Mantri Jan Vikas Karyakram (PMJVK)

72 Girl Child Empowerment Mission (GeM) 2023

73 Mahila Samman Savings Certificate

74 Rice Fortification

75 SAKSHAM Learning Management Information System (LMIS)

76 Mo Ghara (My Home) Scheme

77 Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI)

78 Right to Walk

79 Standards for Nutraceuticals

80 Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojana (TBSY)

81 Ecofeminism

82 75/25 Initiative

83 Sangathan Se Samriddhi

84 United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)

85 United Nations Population Fund

86 Hikikomori

87 Hakki Pikki Tribe

88 E-Shram Portal

89 100 Food Streets in 100 Districts

90 Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS)

91 Anganwadi Centres

92 Differences in Sex Development (DSD)

93 herSTART Platform

94 World Happiness Report

95 Pharmacy Council of India (PCI)

96 MoMo Pregnancy

97 Menstrual Leaves

98 Sickle Cell Anaemia (SCA)

99 Mission Shakti

100 eShram Portal

101 Suposhit Maa Abhiyan

102 Jadui Pitara

103 Chunyun

104 Section 6A of the Citizenship Act

105 Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005

106 Bal Mitra

107 Hakku Patra

108 Project 39A

109 PM Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan

110 GHAR (Go Home and Re-Unite) Portal

111 TULIP Program

112 UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage

113 Manipur’s Ima Market

114 National Education Society for Tribal Students (NESTS)

115 National Meanscum- Merit Scholarship Scheme

116 National Minorities Development & Finance Corporation (NMDFC)

117 ASHA Workers

118 Assistance to Disabled Persons for Purchase / Fitting of Aids and Appliances (ADIP) Scheme

119 Heal in India Campaign

120 Jeevan Pramaan

121 herSTART

122 Bharat Skills Forum

123 Singapore’s Enabling Village

124 Sign Learn App

125 National Education Society for Tribal Students (NESTS)

126 Cognitive Dissonance

127 Harijan Sevak Sangh

128 National Service Scheme (NSS)

129 Child Welfare Committees

130 Kangaroo Mother Care

131 Operation Megha Chakra

132 Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRS)

133 UN Women

134 Ayush Grid Project

135 PEN PLUS Strategy

136 Paalan 1000

137 Pradhan Mantri Adi Adarsh Gram Yojna (PMAAGY)

138 Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989

139 Hukou System

140 Pasmanda Muslims

141 Kanya Shiksha Pravesh Utsav

142 e-utthaan Portal

143 Verstehen

144 Positive Peace

145 Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM)

146 Miao-Choephelling Settlement

147 Intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight (IDCF)-2022

148 Pradhan Mantri Aadi Adarsh Gram Yojana

149 Education Cannot Wait (ECW)

150 Caste-based Census

151 Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS)

152 PM Shri Schools

153 National Creche Scheme(NCS)

154 Padhe Bharat Campaign

155 Har Ghar Dastak Campaign

156 Utkarsh Samaroh

157 Swadhar Greh Scheme

158 Darlong Community

159 Child Protection Services Scheme

160 English Access Micro Scholarship Programme India

161 EatSmart Cities Challenge

162 Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP)

163 National Achievement Survey (NAS)

164 Gender Samwaad

165 Project UNNATI

166 Project Udaan

167 PM CARES for Children Scheme

168 National Means Cum-Merit Scholarship Scheme

169 Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana

170 Fair Bank Disease

171 Aspirational District Program

172 Atal Pension Yojana (APY)

173 Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY)

174 ‘Sentinel on the qui vive’

175 Social Constructivism

176 UN Women

177 Atmanirbhar Hastshilpkar Scheme

178 Poverty Trap

179 Leprosy

180 Changing Childhood Project

181 1951 Refugee Convention

182 United Nations Human Rights Council

183 Article 142

184 Good Samaritan Scheme

185 Labour Force Participation Rate

186 SACRED Portal

187 Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007

188 National Trust

189 Mission Fulwari

190 eSanjeevani

191 MusQan Initiative

192 Halam Sub-tribe

193 Gaon Bura

194 Garib Nawaz Employment Scheme

195 World Population Day 2021

Art & Culture In Brief

1 ​Pulikali

2 ​Onam

3 ​Battle of Saragarhi

4 ​Jhumur Dance

5 ​UNESCO Kalinga Prize

6 ​Kaanu

7 ​Tell Umm Amer Heritage Site

8 Sangameswara Temple

9 ​Chhatrapati Shivaji’s “Wagh Nakh”

10 ​Nouka Baich Boat Race

11 ​Kabir Das

12 ​Jyotirmath

13 ​Ram Prasad Bismil

14 138th Birth Anniversary of Rash Behari Bose

15 ​Vivekananda Rock Memorial

16 ​Fakir Lalon Shah

17 ​Maasika Mahotsav

18 ​National Archives of India (NAI)

19 ​Raja Ravi Varma

20 ​Chithirai Festival

21 ​Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

22 Gorsam Kora Festival

23 UNESCO Global Geoparks Network

24 Gulaal Gota

25 Hastsal Minar

26 Kotravai Sculpture

27 Dakshin Bharat Sanskritik Kendra

28 Dogri Folk Dance

29 Onaivillu

30 Chittorgarh Fort

31 Gole Mela Festival

32 Gokturks

33 Tansen Samaroh

34 Krishnaveni Sangeetha Neerajanam

35 Yogmaya Temple

36 National Culture Fund

37 Portuguese Coins

38 International Film Festival of India (IFFI)

39 Battle of Surabaya

40 Kondaveedu Fort

41 Neolithic Age

42 Jaderi Namakatti

43 Jageshwar Temples

44 Bekal Fort

45 Pichwai Painting

46 Basohli Pashmina

47 Toto Shabda Sangraha

48 India’s First Lighthouse Festival

49 Banglar Mati, Banglar Jol

50 Women Odhuvars

51 Nadi Utsav

52 Biswanath Ghat (Gupta Kashi)

53 The Statue of Oneness

54 Pulikkali (Tiger Dance)

55 Abanindranath Tagore

56 Onam Festival

57 Anduri Utsav

58 Mangri Orang (Malati Mem)

59 Chudanga Gada Fort

60 Byculla Railway Station

61 Tankai Method of Ship Building

62 Idol of Uma-Maheshwara

63 Bhojpatra

64 Kalaignar Pen Monument

65 Purana Qila

66 Puri Rath Yatra

67 Liaquat-Nehru Pact

68 National Maritime Heritage Complex (NMHC)

69 World's Largest Ramayan Temple

70 Heliopolis Memorial

71 JATAN Virtual Museum Builder Software

72 International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)

73 Zafar Mahal

74 Golconda Fort

75 Maha Upanishad

76 Tungnath Temple

77 Gongadi Shawls

78 Trimbakeshwar Temple

79 Thawe Festival

80 Zemithang

81 Puthandu: Tamil New Year

82 Ladakh's Wood Carving

83 Bihu Festival

84 Manamadurai Pottery

85 Jingrwai Lawbei

86 Nagaraja Thira dance

87 Yangli Festival

88 Sisupalgarh

89 Khandagiri Udayagiri Caves

90 Sarbat Khalsa

91 Aluxes

92 Govandi Arts Festival

93 Ahmadiyya Movement

94 Mohiniattam

95 Country’s First Marina

96 Dr Zakir Hussain

97 14th Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav

98 Ramcharitmanas

99 Ottanthullal Dance

100 Parshuram Kund Festival

101 Chamundeshwari Temple

102 Aiyanoor Ammanoor Festival

103 Juna Khatiya

104 Soligas People

105 Gaan-Ngai

106 Kochi-Muziris Biennale

107 Sahitya Akademi

108 Ikki Jathre

109 Dhone Boats

110 Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR)

111 Sulia Jatra

112 Bon Religion

113 Indian History Congress (IHC)

114 Gamaka

115 Battle of Walong

116 Arittapatti

117 Burlang Yatra

118 Basavanagudi Kadalekai Parishe

119 Kolkali Dance

120 Nicobari Hodi Craft

121 Manipur Sangai Festival

122 National Tribal Dance Festival 2022

123 Bonalu Festival

124 Tokhu Emong Festival

125 Wangala Festival

126 Ponniyin Selvan

127 Jageshwar Dham Temple

128 Kashi Tamil Sangamam

129 Nagaland Peace Mission

130 Sambandar

131 Thyagaraja Temple

132 Kalachuri Dynasty

133 Puli Thevar

134 Hyderabad State Liberation Day

135 Mamangam Trade Festival of Kerala

136 Surjapuri and Bajjika Dialects

137 Rosh Hashanah

138 Khneng Embroidery Art

139 Garba Dance

140 Naukhai

141 Shumang Leela

142 Menhir

143 Bharat Rang Mahotsav

144 Manimahesh Yatra

145 Hemis Festival

146 Anayoottu

147 Bonalu Festival

148 Jyotirgamaya Festival

149 Unmesha

150 Sao Joao Festival

151 20th Folk Fair

152 Thang-Ta

153 Kalika Mata Temple

154 200 Years of Mumbai Samachar

155 Madras Music Academy

156 Puri Heritage Corridor Project

157 Shirui Lily Festival

158 Alluri Sitaram Raju

159 Lingaraj Temple

160 Pranahita River

161 Anang Tal

162 Three-headed sculpture of Lord Vishnu

163 Namma Ooru Thiruvizha

164 Bamiyan Buddhas

165 Khajuraho Dance Festival

166 Byanjana Dwadashi

167 Narsinh Mehta

168 Maru Mahotsav

169 Nettur Petti

170 Torana

171 Harwan Buddhist Monastery

172 Somnath Temple

173 Sankalp Smarak

174 Apatani Textile Product

175 Hornbill Festival

176 Prithvi Raj Chauhan

177 Chillai Kalan

178 Waguw

179 Nagaswaram

180 Amuktamalyada

181 Namda Craft

182 Etikoppaka Toys

183 Basanta Ras Leela of Manipur

184 Maa Annapurna Idol

185 Mawlid

186 Martand Sun Temple

187 Mount Merriet

188 Soron Sukar

189 Cham Dance

190 Cheraman Juma Masjid

191 Samvatsari

192 Gita Govinda

193 Karez System of Irrigation

194 Liverpool stripped of ‘World Heritage’ Status

195 Indian Institute of Heritage

196 Palaeolithic Cave Paintings found in Aravalli

197 Shumang Leela Theatre Form

198 News Snippets

199 Andhra's Etikoppaka Toys Craft

200 ART/CULTURE/HERITAGE

Science & Technology In Brief

1 ​NASA’s Perseverance Rover

2 ​National Hand Transplant Registry

3 ​Genome Mapping of Chandipura vesiculovirus

4 ​District Agro-Meteorology Units

5 ​RHUMI 1

6 ​Black Hole Finder App

7 ​NEOWISE

8 ​T Coronae Borealis

9 ​Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla

10 ​Apophis Asteroid

11 ​'2011 MW1'

12 ​Dark Oxygen

13 ​Magnetofossils in Ladakh’s Rock Varnish

14 ​Snowblind Malware

15 ​Agnibaan

16 ​Sensorineural Hearing Loss

17 ​'Vidyut Rakshak'

18 ​Nagastra-1 Drones

19 ​Chang'e-6

20 ​Pushpak

21 ​Cryonics

22 ​Naegleria fowleri (Brain-eating Amoeba)

23 ​ETO (ethylene oxide)

24 ​Biocontrol Agent for Foot Rot Disease

25 ​Second Dengue Vaccine

26 ​Cryptosporidiosis

27 ​SMaRT-PCR Mask

28 ​Xenotransplantation

29 ​PRATUSH Telescope

30 'Bha' Sizing System for Indian Footwear

31 India's Lightest Bulletproof Jacket

32 New Cholera Vaccine to Combat Global Epidemics

33 ​'Infectious Respiratory Particles' Term for Airborne Pathogens

34 Genetic Link between Sri Lanka and Indian Ethnic Populations

35 Devin

36 SIMA

37 Parrot Fever

38 MXene-Coated Polymer

39 Sora

40 Rhodamine-B

41 Hanooman

42 Smart Lander for Investigating Moon

43 ANEEL (Advanced Nuclear Energy for Enriched Life)

44 Samavesha

45 Chameleon Trojan

46 Havisure

47 Gemini

48 JT-60SA

49 India at Artic

50 National Geoscience Data Repository Portal

51 Japan's Ogasawara Island

52 E Prime Layer

53 International Space Station

54 Sagittarius C

55 High-Energy Particle “Amaterasu”

56 Iron Dome

57 Bright Transient Survey Bot (BTSbot)

58 ImmunoACT

59 Vikram-I

60 BlueWalker 3

61 X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat)

62 Orionid Meteor Shower

63 Hyades Cluster

64 Largest Time-Domain Survey Telescope

65 Vanadium

66 Zealandia

67 Maisie’s Galaxy

68 QakBot Malware Network

69 Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)

70 Code Llama

71 Genetic Puzzle of Y Chromosome

72 Agnibaan SOrTeD

73 Ophidascaris robertsi

74 WorldCoin

75 Cosmic Rays and Earth's Defence

76 Fediverse

77 World's First Methane-Fuelled Space Rocket

78 Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever

79 Osteo HRNet

80 Donanemab

81 Lisa

82 Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)

83 Bharat 6G Alliance (B6GA)

84 Dimethyl Ether (DME)-fueled Engine

85 Cholederm

86 Neurotech Devices

87 Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Technology

88 Centralized Laboratory Network (CLN)

89 TOI 4603b

90 LUPEX Mission

91 Foucault Pendulum

92 AI Supercomputer ‘AIRAWAT’

93 New Uranium Isotope

94 India’s 1st 3D Printed Post Office

95 PSLV-C55/TeLEOS-2 Mission

96 Candida auris

97 International Liquid Mirror Telescope

98 Biotransformation Technology

99 Plastiglomerate

100 Israel’s Sniffing Robot

101 CCR5 Mutation

102 Automatic Train Supervision

103 ALMA

104 Organ on a Chip

105 Mad Cow Disease

106 Bendable Concrete

107 Immune Imprinting

108 BharOS

109 Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC)

110 Doppler Weather Radar

111 Phonons

112 ChatGPT

113 SLYM

114 Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind survey (WALLABY)

115 Deep-tech Startups

116 Incovacc

117 Gelbots

118 Ruthenium−Ferrocene Bimetallic Agent

119 OpenAI’s ChatGPT

120 Mycobacterium leprae

121 mpox

122 Zombie Virus

123 Smart Contracts

124 Cordy Gold Nanoparticles (Cor-AuNPs)

125 AMR Salmonella

126 Glyphosate

127 China’s Mengtian Module

128 Fungal Priority Pathogens List

129 Einstein Ring

130 NASA’s Sonification Project

131 NavIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation)

132 CSA6

133 Facial Recognition Technology

134 Cloud Seeding

135 Standalone and Non-standalone 5G Networks

136 Forever Chemicals

137 Bisphenol A (BPA)

138 SUMO Protein

139 IS4OM

140 Gaganyaan Abort Mission

141 VFTS 243

142 Google Street View

143 GEMCOVAC-19

144 Ramsay Hunt Syndrome

145 Black Death

146 Surya Nutan

147 GSAT-24 Satellite

148 Psyche Mission

149 Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN)

150 Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)

151 Retinoblastoma

152 BioRRAP

153 Buffalopox

154 Cherenkov Radiation

155 Bernardinelli-Bernstein Comet

156 Micro-swimmers for Drug Delivery

157 InTranSE -II Program

158 Sarmat

159 Self-amplifying mRNA Vaccine

160 Indigenous Air Traffic Management Systems

161 Australia’s Defence Space Command Agency

162 ExoMars 2022

163 Gallium Nitride (GaN)

164 GSAT-7B Satellite

165 PACER Scheme

166 Synthetic Biology

167 Solar Proton Events

168 Origami Metamaterials

169 Indian Neutrino Observatory Project

170 China’s Artificial Moon

171 Vikas Engine

172 Log4 Shell

173 Controlled Aerial Delivery System (CADS)

174 Paxlovid

175 Pinaka-ER

176 Neurocysticercosis (NCC)

177 41st Scientific Expedition to Antarctica

178 Cabotegravir and Rilpivirine

179 SWADESH

180 World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW)

181 HeLa Cells

182 DLX1 Protein

183 Nebra Sky Disc

184 Radio over Internet Protocol (RoIP)

185 Microflier

186 ATL Space Challenge

187 LCA-Mk2

188 Saline Gargle RT-PCR Technology

189 IADS

190 ‘Nauka’

191 SpaceX to launch NASA’s ‘Europa Clipper Mission’

192 Indigenous Sensor to detect Arsenic Contamination

193 I-STEM enters Second Phase

194 AMLEX: The Oxygen Rationing Device

195 News Snippets

196 Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO)

197 SERB and Intel India Launch ‘Fund for Industrial Research Engagement’ (FIRE)

198 Triboelectric Nanogenerator (TENG)

199 NEWS SNIPPETS

200 India’s 1st Reactor on PPP Model

201 National Technology Day

202 Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts Oxygen on Mars

203 DRDO Lab develops Antibody Detection Kit ‘DIPCOVAN’

204 Indian Astronomers Develop New Method to Identify Cluster Stars

205 Black Fungus Disease

206 News Snippets

207 Health Minister Named Chairman Of ‘Stop TB Partnership Board’

208 ISRO Launched Sounding Rocket RH-560

209 New Bacteria Found on ISS Named After Indian Scientist Ajmal Khan

210 News Snippets

211 DIU and TAFCOP

212 Fossil of Dickinsonia

213 Sandes: India’s New Instant Messaging Platform

214 ISRO Tests Satellite of Private Sector

215 FSSAI GMO Threshold

216 Lithium Deposits Inferred in Mandaya

217 Ease of Doing Science Index

218 Comet Killed the Dinosaurs: Study

219 Concentration of Small Black Holes

220 News Snippets

221 National Baseline Geoscience Data Generation Programmes (2020-2024)

222 FSSAI Cuts Down Limit for Trans-fat Levels in Foods

223 Whatsapp Privacy Policy

224 Global Ebola Vaccine Stockpile

225 Google Threatens to Shut Services in Australia

226 Post COVID-19 Security Challenges

227 India to Export Akash Missile System

228 Tokamak Reactor: China's "Artificial Sun"

229 Himgiri: 1st Ship of Project 17A by GSRE Kolkata

230 Ransomware 2.0

231 Microwave Weapon

232 Dry Swab RT-PCR Test

233 nOPV 2 Vaccine

234 Crew 1 Mission

235 Extended Range Version of BrahMos Missile

236 Encrypted Online Message

237 10 Hafte 10 Baje 10 Min

238 Bio Fortification

239 Holographic Imaging Test

240 Nag-ATGM

241 COVID-19: Serial Interval

242 COVID-19 Mutation D614G

243 Real Mango

244 Graphene Mask

245 Asteroid 2020 QG

246 Eye in the sky: Ninja Drones to Protect Rail Assets

247 Student Entrepreneurship Programme 2.0

248 NEOWISE Comet: One of the Brightest Comets

249 BLUIS- Bhubaneshwar Land Use Intelligence System

250 CPT and Plasma Bank in New Delhi

251 Approval for Winter Diesel

252 Global Vaccine Summit

253 National AI Portal

254 Viroblock: Anti-viral Textile Technology

255 Captain Arjun

256 Malathion and Chlorpyrifos

257 Drugs for Fighting COVID-19

258 Fifth State of Matter in Space

259 Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence

260 UV Disinfection Trolley

261 Government Guidelines on Temp & Humidity

262 Geofencing

263 Demo 2 Mission

264 Lithium Abundance in Interstellar Space & Red Giants

265 INST Designs Computer-based Nanomaterials

266 CSIR-CSIO Develops Electrostatic Disinfection Technology

267 DRDO Develops First Mobile Testing Lab for COVID-19

268 Unravelling the Bacterial Surface Architecture

269 COVID-19 Bio-banks

270 COVID-19 Indian National Supermodel

271 National Technology Day

272 CCMB Cultures SARS-CoV-2

273 MACS 4028: Biofortified Wheat Variety

274 DAC Approves Procurement of Tejas Mk1A for Indian Air Force

275 ICONSAT- 2020

276 Ikaria wariootia: The Ancestor of All Animals

277 Building a Comprehensive Human Single-cell Atlas

278 Henneguya salminicola: First Animal that doesn’t Need Oxygen to Live

279 Artificial Intelligence Based Module in Indian Schools

280 2020 CD3: Earth’s New Mini-moon

281 ISRO and IIA Sign Pact for Space Cooperation

282 National Science Day: Popularising Science

283 Oldest Material on Earth Discovered

284 The Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Outbreak

285 NASA Unveils Maxwell

286 First Detection of Sugars in Meteorites Gives Clues to Origin of Life

287 Relaunch of Anti-Rabies Vaccine

288 Kerala Cabinet Approves Fibre Optic Network

289 StrandHogg: Android’s Vulnerability

290 Srinivasa Ramanujan: The Legend

291 Quantum States Created in Everyday Electronics

292 Sarvatra: The Indigenous Bullet-proof Jacket

293 World’s First 5G Mobile Network

294 Israel’s Beresheet Mission Crashes on the Moon

295 Japan Space Agency Sends Impactor to Blast Asteroid

296 Indian Teams Win Awards at NASA Annual Rover Challenge

297 Homo Luzonensis: A New Human Relative

298 Stratolaunch Plane Completes First Test Flight

299 New State of Matter Discovered

300 Scientists Print 3D Heart

301 NASA Probe Detects Likely ‘Marsquake’

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

303 Strawberry Moon 2019

304 Shrinking Moon Generates Lunar Quakes

305 NASA’s DART to Collide with Asteroid in 2022

306 Jamia Researchers Develop Ultrafast Quantum Thermometer

307 CRISPR anti-venom

308 Giant Asteroid Expected to Fly Close to the Earth

309 Scientists sequence Asiatic lion’s Genome for the first time

310 Kepler, 1st Exoplanet Spotted By NASA

311 China’s Long March Rocket Series Completes 300 launches

312 President Inaugurates Festival of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

313 DRDO Chairman Wins Missile Systems Award

314 US Mathematician Becomes First Woman to Win Abel Prize

315 Supersonic Pulsar Discovered

316 The Table that Defines Chemistry Turns 150

317 ‘Inkjet’ Solar Panels Set to Reshape Green Energy

318 Japanese Space Probe Lands on Asteroid

319 SpaceX’s New Astronaut Capsule Docks on International Space Station

320 Asteroid Bennu

321 India Tests New Anti-Radiation Missile

322 New Planet Outside Solar System Discovered

323 150 years of Chemistry’s Periodic Table

324 UN Project to Pool Oceans of Data to Map Sea Floor

325 India’s First e-Waste Clinic

326 Saturn has the Highest Moons

327 Orionids Meteor Shower

328 The Gandhian Challenge Launched by AIM

329 Food Safety Mitra Scheme Launched

330 Cosmic Yeti Discovered

331 Elastocaloric Effect

332 Virgin Hyperloop One Signs an agreement to build a Hyperloop

333 ISRO lays the Foundation Stone for the Space Situational Awareness Control Centre

334 NASA Takes First High-Resolution Measurements of Interplanetary Shock

335 India’s 1st Large-Scale Trial of Two New TB Vaccines Launched

336 GJ 357 d: NASA’s TESS Discovers 1st Nearby Super-Earth

337 Government Clears ITMS for Mumbai

338 Government to launch Genome India Initiative

339 TOI 270: New Planetary System

340 Artificial Gravity Designed

341 Deepfake: A new Cause of Worry in AI

342 Ploonet: A New Word in Scientific Community

343 Falcon Heavy Spacecraft Launched

344 India Signs Anti-Tank Missile Deal with Russia

345 First Ever Mobile Science Exhibition Van Flagged Off in Leh

346 Shodh Shuddhi: Fight Against Plagiarism

347 K2-18b: Does the Planet Support Life?

348 Quantum Supremacy

349 India’s Longest Electrified Rail Tunnel inaugurated in Andhra Pradesh

350 Survey of India to Deploy 300 Drones for Mapping the Country

351 Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Research Launched

352 ISRO, DRDO sign MoUs to Provide Technologies for Human Space Mission

353 Telangana Government Declares 2020 as Artificial Intelligence Year

Ecology & Environment In Brief

1 ​Salt Pan Land Transfer

2 ​Karvi Bloom

3 ​New Banded Dragonfish Species Discovered

4 ​Carrhotus piperus

5 ​Southern Birdwing Butterfly

6 ​Maharashtra Launches Solar Village Scheme

7 ​New Plant Species Discovered in Ambagad Forest

8 ​New Cashew Hybrid Varieties

9 ​New Ceropegia Species Named After Shivaji Maharaj

10 ​Squalus Hima

11 ​Bannerghatta Biological Park

12 ​New Species of Flower Flies

13 ​Horned Frog of Arunachal Pradesh

14 ​India Gains Significant Forest Area

15 ​World’s Oldest Termite Mounds

16 New Plant Species Discovered

17 ​Spot Bellied Eagle Owl

18 ​Paraparatrechina Neela

19 ​Indiconema

20 Ghugwa National Fossil Park

21 ​Baobab Tree Origins and Threats

22 ​World Wildlife Crime Report

23 ​United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF)

24 ​Glyptothorax punyabratai

25 ​Oedocladium sahyadricum

26 New Gecko Species Offer Insights into Maharashtra's Biodiversity

27 ​Global Forest Watch Data

28 ​Study Suggests Climate Change Affects Earth's Rotation

29 ​Scotland Drops 2030 Emissions Target

30 ​Rare Butterfly Species Discovered in Arunachal Pradesh

31 High Methane Emissions in 2023

32 New Wasp Species Discovered

33 Tiger Safaris Ban in Core Area

34 Avaana Sustainability Fund

35 Olive Ridley Nesting Sites

36 Agasthyagama edge

37 Gupteswar Forest

38 Wetland City Accreditation

39 Shallow Soda Lakes

40 Vulture Restaurant

41 Dark Sky Park

42 Re-Introduction of Dodo

43 Climate Change Performance Index

44 India’s Extreme Rain Corridor

45 International Year of Camelids

46 Pangolakha Wildlife Sanctuary

47 State of the Cryosphere 2023

48 Trilobite Fossils

49 Equatorial Rainforests

50 International Tropical Timber Council

51 Mother Nature Campaign

52 Tiger Census

53 Urban Flooding

54 Climate Smart Villages

55 Green Energy Corridor

56 Mytella strigata

57 Marine Cloud Brightening

58 Nilgiri Tahr

59 Reusable Bamboo Straw

60 Herpetofaunal Survey in South Wayanad

61 Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary

62 Sahara Desert "Greenings"

63 Solar Panels in Arctic Darkness

64 Marine Sand

65 India's Pledge to Curb Crop Burning Pollution

66 Plastic Overshoot Day

67 Elephant Population in Karnataka Reaches Record High

68 July 2023 Marks Hottest Month Ever Recorded

69 Indian Cheetah Project Management

70 Seahorse Hotels

71 Tiger Orchid

72 Cloudbursts

73 Leptospirosis

74 Protosterol Biota

75 One Health Approach

76 Declining Wild Orchids

77 People’s Biodiversity Register (PBR)

78 One-stop Centres for Zero Waste

79 Sea Butterflies

80 Meri LiFE’ App

81 Piezometers

82 The Coalition of Coastal Cities

83 Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate Change

84 5th Cycle of India’s Tiger Census

85 Global Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Infrastructure

86 International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA)

87 International Day of Zero Waste

88 Sarus Crane

89 Salt Marshes

90 E20 Fuel

91 Save Wetlands Campaign

92 Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ)

93 Omorgus Khandesh

94 Marine Spatial Planning

95 Rhododendrons

96 Global Assessment of Soil Carbon in Grasslands

97 Triassic Caecilian Fossils

98 Green Steel

99 Liquified Natural Gas

100 Mahabali Frog

101 Titanosaur Eggs

102 Neelakurinji

103 New Dwarf Boa Species

104 UN-Water Summit on Groundwater 2022

105 Arctic Report Card 2022

106 Restoration Barometer 2022 Report

107 Orans

108 Purse Seine Fishing

109 Nilgiri Tahr Project

110 Polar Bears

111 International Jaguar Day

112 Himalayan Yak

113 Great Indian Bustard

114 New Energy Outlook Report 2022

115 Modhera

116 Asia’s Largest Compressed Bio Gas Plant

117 Climate Transparency Report 2022

118 Terai Elephant Reserve

119 Sustainable Aviation Fuel

120 Alliance for Industry Decarbonization

121 Global Registry of Fossil Fuels

122 Greenland Ice Melting

123 Bent-toed Gecko

124 Tasmanian Tiger

125 Katchal Island

126 Arctic Amplification

127 Migratory Monarch Butterfly

128 Azores High

129 Re-wilding of Red Pandas

130 Menar Bird Village

131 Kerala’s Red List of Birds

132 2022 United Nations Ocean Conference

133 Global Environment Facility

134 EU’s Nature Restoration Law

135 India Forum for Nature-based Solutions

136 Pantanal Wetland

137 Ramgarh Vishdhari Sanctuary

138 Urban Heat Island

139 Himalayan Bird Count

140 Money Spiders

141 Indian Tent Turtle (Pangshura tentoria)

142 Vaquita porpoise

143 Earth Day

144 Seaweed Park

145 Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill, 2021

146 Blue Blob

147 Glycosmis albicarpa

148 Syllipsimopodi bideni

149 Project Nilgiri Tahr

150 Earth Hour

151 Pensilungpa Glacier

152 Boma Technique

153 Minamata Convention on Mercury

154 UNEP Frontiers Report 2022

155 Marine Heatwaves

156 Geopark

157 Bomb Cyclone

158 Septemeranthus

159 Red Sanders

160 Flex Fuel Vehicles

161 Indravati Tiger Reserve

162 Coal Ministry’s Sustainable Development Cell

163 Clydebank Declaration

164 Issi saaneq

165 Kaiser-i-Hind

166 Great Green Wall (GGW) Programme

167 Georissa mawsmaiensis

168 Dhole

169 Allium negianum

170 ‘Ganga Atlas: River of the Past’

171 Trigonopterus corona

172 Rescue Guide for Ganges River Dolphin

173 Vishnuonyx neptuni

174 'HvHorcH'

175 Manda Buffalo

176 Strophodus jaisalmerensis

177 Plant Discoveries 2020

178 Blue Flag Certification

179 Wild Buffalo (Bubalus arnee)

180 National Dolphin Research Centre (NDRC)

181 ‘Centre of Excellence’ to be Set up in Arunachal Pradesh

182 Odisha Plans DNA Profiling of Leopards

183 India to Commission 35 New Seismological Observatories

184 News Snippets

185 Dihing Patkai National Park Inaugurated

186 Conservation Pact on Black Softshell Turtle in Assam

187 News Snippets

188 Blackbuck Population doubles in Odisha

189 Bryocrumia malabarica – New Species of Bryophyte

190 Global Warming Responsible for One-third of the World’s Heat Deaths

191 12th Clean Energy Ministerial and the Industrial Deep Decarbonisation Initiative

192 News Snippets

193 MoU Signed to Implement Action Plan Under National Clean Air Programme

194 National Plan for Conservation of Aquatic Eco-systems

195 Flamingos, Pelicans Yet to Leave Chilika, Despite Early Onset of Summer

196 Beijing Faces ‘Biggest Sandstorm of the Decade’

197 CPCB Report on Contaminated Sites in India

198 Food Waste Index Report 2021

199 Uttarakhand Disaster

200 News Snippets

201 Chittaura Lake

202 Mandarin Duck and Black-necked Crane

203 Karlapat Wildlife Sanctuary

204 Cremanthodium indicum: New Alpine Plant

205 Vembanad Lake

206 World Sustainable Development Summit 2021

207 News Snippets

208 Marine Heat Waves Expected to Become More Intense and Frequent

209 Rooftop Solar Scheme: Only Discoms are Authorised

210 GHGs Impact Wildfire Outbreaks Regionally

211 Ladakh's Tso Kar Wetland Complex Declared 42nd Ramsar Site in India

212 Malayan Giant Squirrel Could Vanish from NE After 2050

213 Aerosols in Indo-Gangetic Plain Enhanced High Rainfall Near the Himalayan Foothills

214 India Climate Change Knowledge Portal

215 National Water Awards 2019

216 Four More Biodiversity Heritage Sites For Karnataka

217 India’s First Moss Inaugurated Garden in Uttarakhand

218 Panna Tiger Reserve Declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO

219 First Snow Leopard Census Starts in Uttarakhand

220 Earthshot Prize

221 New Family of Bony Fish Discovered in Western Ghats

222 8 Indian Beaches Get Blue Flag Certification

223 Impact-based Cyclone Warning System

224 Kochi Biodiversity Index Map

225 Low Ozone Over Brahmaputra Valley

226 Brucellosis Outbreak in China

227 Kalinga Cricket Frog

228 Seed Bombs

229 World Elephant Day

230 India & Maldives Contract for Development of Eco-tourism Zones

231 Dragonfly Festival- Thumbimahotsavam 2020

232 Reconstitution of Central Zoo Authority

233 Himalayan Viagra: Caterpillar Fungus

234 Tiger Orchids

235 KURMA App

236 KAZI 106-F: Golden Tiger of Assam

237 Green Light for Individual contributions to NDRF

238 Indian Gaur Population Estimation in Nilgiris

239 WWF on Zoonotic Diseases

240 Cyclone Nisarga

241 Earth Day Celebrated On April 22

242 Groundwater in Ten Districts of Bihar Contaminated by Uranium

243 NGT Directs Team of Centre, CPCB to Supervise Scientific Disposal of COVID-19 Waste

244 Environmental Impact Assessment Amended by Environment Ministry

245 Troglomyces twitteri Discovered on Twitter

246 Sal Forest Tortoise Habitat Stretches Over Unprotected Areas

247 World Tuna Day

248 Series of Ash Barges Sinking Raises Concerns on Sundarbans Ecology

249 India’s CO2 Emissions Fall for the First Time in Four Decades

250 World Migratory Bird Day

251 UK Confirmed as First co-chair of Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure

252 Sahyadri Megha: New Paddy Variety Resistant to Blast Disease

253 Global Coalition for Biodiversity Launched on World Wildlife Day

254 Tribal Affairs Ministry Constitutes Community Forest Resources

255 Global Recycling Day

256 World Water Day: Billions will have Limited Access to Water by 2050

257 Jalyukta Shivar Scrapped

258 C gretathunbergae: A new Snail Species named after Greta Thunberg

259 M.M. Wildlife Sanctuary to be a Tiger Reserve Soon

260 Punjab Agro Launches 'Punjab Kinnow'

261 New Species of Urban Lizard Found in Guwahati

262 Pavan Sukhdev wins Tyler Award 2020

263 Rubigula: Chosen as National Games Mascot

264 World Wetlands Day 2020

265 First-of-its Kind Turtle Rehab Centre Comes up in Bihar

266 “Operation Vanilla” Launched by Indian Navy for Disaster Relief at Madagascar

267 Kerala to Curb Alien Plants’ Growth

268 Supreme Court Bats Against Transfer of Community Resources

269 CDP India Annual Report 2019

270 SC Backs Order to Demolish Villas on Kerala Island for Violating CRZ Norms

271 Conservation Agriculture

272 Fall Armyworm Attack Neutralized

273 International Conference on Soil and Water Resources Management

274 NMCG Organized Ganga Utsav in New Delhi

275 India Attends IUCN’s 7th Regional Conservation Forum

276 Madrid to Host Cop 25 UN Climate Talks

277 New Zealand's Zero Carbon Law

278 World Soil Day

279 4th India Water Impact Summit

280 Scientists Find World’s Oldest Fossil Forest

281 IUCN Updates “Red List of Threatened Species”

282 Indian Army installs Air Quality Monitor at Fort Williams

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

284 Jewel-weeds Yields 20 New Species

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

286 Bihar Government bans Tree-Felling

287 Indian Navy Environment Conservation Roadmap (INECR)

288 El Salvador Recognises Forests as Living Entities

289 New Wasp Species Identified in Goa

290 One of India’s Smallest Orchids Discovered in Assam

291 Fall Armyworm (FAW) becomes a Major Problem for Farmers

292 Fourteenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention

293 Goldman Environmental Prize

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

295 The International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB)

296 Otter Census in Uttar Pradesh

297 Indians in the 100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy List

298 UN Environment Assembly on Sustainable Development Goals

299 IQAir AirVisual 2018 World Air Quality Report

300 India Bans Import of Solid Plastic Waste

301 ​Honey as a Biomarker for Pollution

302 EU Parliament Approves Ban on Single-use Plastics

303 Yangtze Giant Soft Shell Turtle Goes Extinct

304 Olive Ridley Turtle

305 Factual Report on Great Indian Bustard

306 Two New Bird Species Spotted in Kerala Sanctuary

307 Eurasian Lynx

308 Forest Fires Threatening Odisha’s Flora & Fauna

309 Mount Agung Volcano Erupts

310 Indian Bullfrogs Take to Invasive Behaviour Early in Andamans

311 Current Affairs Questions

312 Thane Creek Flamingo Sanctuary (TCFS)

313 Vulture Safe Zone

314 First Mammal to Go Extinct Due to Climate Change

315 Biodegradable Water Repellent Material

316 Trishna Gas Project of ONGC

317 Two New Species of Moss Rose Discovered

318 SEED Awards Announced

319 Asia Environmental Enforcement Award

320 D28 Iceberg breaks off Antartica

321 New Species Named After Climate Activist Greta Thunberg

322 IUCN adds more than 7,000 to its Red List

323 ‘Jal Hi Jeevan Hai’ Scheme

324 Northeast Frontier Railway’s ‘Plan Bee’ wins Best Innovation Award

325 Tropical Storm ‘Barry’ hits Louisiana in US and entire Gulf Coast

326 Greta Thunberg’s ‘Climate Strike’ Becomes a Global Movement

327 Gogabeel: Bihar’s First Community Reserve

328 World Biofuel Day Observed in India

329 IPCC Report on Land and Climate Change

330 Meghdoot: New Mobile App Launched to Assist Farmers

331 Cryodrakon Boreas

332 Basel Ban Amendment becomes Law

333 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer

334 Special Tiger Force for Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR)

335 Indian PM Inaugurates Gandhi Solar Park at UN Headquarters

336 Campaign Angikaar and E-Course on Vulnerability Atlas Launched

337 Project REPLAN (REducing PLastic in Nature)

World Watch In Brief

1 ​India Elected to GloBE Steering Committee

2 ​India Abstains from UN General Assembly Vote on Resolution

3 ​India-Uzbekistan Bilateral Investment Treaty

4 ​World Employment and Social Outlook

5 ​India and EU Boost Defence and Security Cooperation

6 ​Hezbollah-Israel Conflict

7 ​Sri Lanka Announces Visa-Free Access to Indians

8 ​India Elected Vice-Chair of IPEF Supply Chain Council

9 ​Smart Lab for Clean Rivers

10 ​India to Fund Launch of Nepali Satellite

11 ​EAM’s Visit to Qatar

12 ​UN Water Convention

13 ​Paraguay Joins ISA

14 ​Romania, Bulgaria and Greece Sign Strategic Deal

15 ​Netherlands Is India's Third Largest Export Destination

16 Colombo Process

17 ​New Members of UN Security Council

18 ​Resolve Tibet Act

19 ​UN Counter-Terrorism Trust Fund

20 ​Taiwan Confident Amid China's "Punishment" Drills

21 ​US Removes Cuba from Terrorism Non-Cooperation List

22 ​EU Nations Approve Migration Pact

23 High-Level Mediation Talks in South Sudan

24 ​Japan-US Sign New Missile Defence System Deal

25 Mexico Ends Diplomatic Ties with Ecuador

26 ​EU Ban Goods Made with Forced Labour

27 ​India Delivers BrahMos Missiles to Philippines

28 India-PNG Strengthen Defence Ties

29 Pin code MH-1718

30 Global Fertility Trends

31 India Tops Global Arms Import

32 France Enshrines Right to Abortion in Constitution

33 India-Brazil 2+2 Dialogue

34 US Vetoes UN Call

35 Expansion of India's UPI Services

36 India-Peru Trade Talks

37 India-U.K. Defence MoU

38 Sahel Exits ECOWAS

39 India and Cuba Sign MoU

40 NATO Membership

41 EU Artificial Intelligence Act

42 BRICS

43 Article 99 of the UN Charter

44 Bab el-Mandeb

45 INDUS-X Investors Meet

46 Bletchley Declaration

47 Mobility and Migration Partnership Agreement

48 International Sugar Organisation

49 The Syrian Golan

50 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue

51 The Rafah Crossing

52 Operation Ajay

53 World Cooperative Economic Forum (WCEF)

54 India and Vietnam

55 Sri Lanka's IMF Bailout

56 All-Weather Partnership

57 Noor-3

58 Hai Kun

59 Northern Sea Route

60 Pakistan Caretaker Government

61 Sri Lanka Unique Digital Identity Project (SL-UDI)

62 Triton Island

63 Multinational Forces Practice Island Retake Drill

64 Myanmar Junta Extends State of Emergency

65 "Duty to Consult" Security Pledge

66 Arbitration Clause for Chabahar Port Dropped

67 India-Australia Mutual Recognition for Trusted Exporters

68 Algeria Applies for BRICS Membership

69 Young Professional Scheme

70 Wagner Rebellion

71 NATO Plus Five

72 India's Commitment to UN Peacekeeping

73 Atlantic Declaration

74 Artemis Accords

75 Heliopolis Memorial

76 International Organisation for Migration (IOM)

77 India-Australia Migration and Mobility Partnership Agreement (MMPA)

78 Snowball Effect

79 ADB’s New Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for India for 2023-27

80 EU’s Digital Services Act

81 Finland joins NATO

82 Australia-India Education Qualification Recognition Mechanism

83 McMahon Line

84 International Criminal Court

85 Uganda's Bill on LGBTQs

86 India-EU Trade and Technology Council

87 Gulfood 2023

88 UN Commission for Social Development

89 Seattle Bans Caste Discrimination

90 Windsor Framework

91 Fab 4 Chip Alliance

92 Draft Global Pandemic Agreement

93 Asian Pacific Postal Union

94 Student Loan Safety Net

95 WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies

96 iCET Dialogue

97 Asian Pacific Postal Union (APPU)

98 International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)

99 Paris Club

100 Global Pandemic Treaty

101 EAGLE Act

102 Group of Friends

103 Red Notices (RNs)

104 China-Indian Ocean Region Forum

105 Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA)

106 UN Resident Coordinator

107 Express Entry(EE) System of Canada

108 INTERPOL General Assembly

109 Scorched Earth Tactics

110 Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA)

111 UK India Business Council (UKIBC)

112 Mondiacult 2022

113 Regional Standardization Forum

114 Supply Chain Ministerial Forum

115 Joint Rivers Commission

116 Blue Helmets

117 United Nations Woman Police Officer of the Year Award

118 UN Peacekeeping Mission

119 Mekong-Lancang Cooperation (MLC)

120 Aid for Trade

121 e-Emergency X-Misc Visa

122 UNSC 1267 Committee

123 Title IX Law

124 Juneteenth Day 2022

125 Living Lands Charter

126 Intersolar Europe 2022

127 International Migration Review Forum

128 State of the World’s Forests 2022

129 India-Denmark Green Strategic Partnership

130 Colombo Security Conclave

131 World Press Freedom Index

132 Global Security Initiative

133 United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)

134 Hague Convention of 1954

135 National College for Policing and Law Enforcement (NCPLE)

136 Bucharest Nine (B9)

137 International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

138 War Crime

139 Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT)

140 Council of Europe (CoE)

141 Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA)

142 Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF)

143 EU’s Digital Rights and Principle

144 Pangong Tso

145 Golan Heights

146 Asia Power Index 2021

147 Mission SAGAR

148 Memorial International

149 Indian Ocean Naval Symposium

150 World Migration Report 2022

151 El Salvador’s Bitcoin City

152 APEC 2021

153 Barbados

154 G20 Troika

155 World Gold Council (WGC)

156 Uyghur Community

157 Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

158 OSOWOG

159 Houthis

160 White Shipping Information

161 International Criminal Court (ICC)

162 Internet Freedom

163 Durand Line

164 Historic Protests in Cuba

165 Bill to Grant Provisional Provincial Status to Gilgit-Baltistan

166 India and Bangladesh reopen Haldibari-Chilahati Rail Link

167 News Snippets

168 First-Ever Israeli Embassy opens in UAE

169 Iran refuses to give Nuclear Site Images to IAEA

170 G20 Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting

171 Joe Biden-Vladimir Putin Geneva Summit

172 Bitcoin: Legalised by El Salvador

173 Maldives wins 76th UNGA Presidential Election

174 News Snippets

175 Ukraine Bid to Join NATO

176 8888 Uprising

177 E9 Countries

178 China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Trilateral Dialogue

179 Digital Border

180 Herero and Nama Genocide

181 News Snippets

182 IBSA Women Forum Meeting

183 News Snippets

184 Transatlantic Alliance

185 UNHRC Resolution on Sri Lanka

186 Pakistan to Remain on FATF Grey List

187 India - Australia Circular Economy Hackathon

188 Lalandar Dam

189 News Snippets

190 China Amends Defence Law to Boost War Preparedness

191 Europe’s First Digital Nomad Village

192 Passage Exercise

193 SAARC Charter Day

194 International Day of Epidemic Preparedness

195 India to Open 3 Indian Missions

196 MoU between India-Kazakhstan

197 India and Sri Lanka Complete Bilateral Naval Exercise

198 India attends 6th BRICS Parliamentary Forum

199 Indo-China Five Point Plan on LAC

200 Germany launches Indo-Pacific Strategy with India

201 ASEAN-India Business Council Meet

202 WHO Declares African Continent Free of Wild Polio

203 Maldives, Sri Lanka Eliminate Measles & Rubella

204 WTO Dispute Settlement Body sets up Panel against India’s ICT Duties

205 RBI signs $400 million Currency Swap with Sri Lanka

206 Juneteenth

207 Japan to Rename Senkaku Islands

208 H1-B Visa Halt

209 Vaccine Nationalism

210 Ethiopia-Sudan Border Row

211 US President wants India to Join G7

212 Russia-India-China Grouping

213 India Attends G20 Finance Ministerial Meeting

214 New Development Bank Provides 1 billion USD Financial Assistance to India

215 BRO Constructs Bridge on Subansiri River in Record Time

216 Global Report on Food Crises 2020

217 World Bank’s April 2020 Commodity Markets Outlook Released

218 World Press Freedom Conference 2020

219 Chinese Parliament Approves Controversial Hong Kong Security Law

220 SCO States Favour Action Plan to Fight Covid-19

221 Oxford Releases Stringency Index

222 India to Provide Financial Assistance for Building Schools in Nepal

223 US Defence Production Act Invoked to Lift Up Ventilator Production

224 India-European Union Flagship Call Announced on Integrated Local Energy Systems

225 India Ranks 144 in World Happiness Report

226 India-Japan Sign Rail Project

227 Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal Becomes a Sore Point

228 Employment-based Backlog to Double by 2030

229 Parliament Passes Amendment Allowing Putin to Stay in Power

230 India Falls steeply on Freedom index

231 India and Norway Strengthen Partnership on Blue Economy

232 India-Maldives MoU on Addu Tourism

233 Worldwide Educating for the Future Index 2019

234 Second BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise-2020

235 US to Impose Visa Restrictions for Pregnant Women

236 Sagarmatha Sambaad

237 Ganga-Volga Dialogue Held with Russia to Enhance Connectivity

238 India Joins Reskilling Revolution Initiative at World Economic Forum

239 Russia’s New Constitutional Amendment to Help Putin Stay in Power

240 Statue of Unity Finds Place in ‘8 Wonders of SCO’

241 UN Court Orders Myanmar to Prevent Rohingya Genocide

242 India Chairs Kimberley Process Meet on Blood Diamonds

243 6th ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting - Plus

244 “Top 100 City Destination” Ranking

245 Cuba Appoints Miguel Diaz-Canel as Prime Minister

246 Donald Trump Impeached by House of Representatives

247 Human Development Index 2019

248 US-Iran Stand-off Escalates

249 Saudi Arabia’s Two Oil Tankers Sabotaged in Attacks

250 North Korea fires missiles as US envoy visits Seoul

251 India Gives Two Attack Helicopters to Afghanistan

252 India & Brunei ink Tax Information Exchange Agreement

253 India Rejects the Second Belt And Road Initiative (BRI) Forum

254 ‘Bold Kurukshetra 2019’

255 Langkawi International Maritime & Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA) 2019

256 AUSINDEX 2019

257 India to Open An Agriculture Training Institute At Malawi

258 REIWA

259 PM Awarded Zayed Medal

260 India-Central Asia Dialogue

261 India, South Africa Sign 3-year Strategic Plan

262 Sri Lanka: Ranil Wickremesinghe Sworn-in as Prime Minister

263 Morocco Ranks High in Climate Action

264 Bangladesh President Invites Hasina to Form Government

265 India and UK Launch New Research Initiative on Cancer

266 18th Non-Aligned Movement Summit

267 India Pakistan Sign the Pact to Open Kartarpur Corridor

268 Mahatma Gandhi IT & Biotech Park Inaugurated in Côte d’Ivoire

269 India Increases its Contribution to UN Palestine Refugee Agency

270 China Lends Support to Kailash Mansarovar Yatra

271 FATF Places Pakistan on Black List

272 Visit of Zambian President Edgar Chagwa Lungu to India

273 UNIDO and Solar Energy Institute Sign Agreement

274 India Signs UNISA

275 India Hosts First SCO Military Medicine Conference

276 India and South Korea Sign Defence Logistics Pact

277 Hong Kong Controversial Bill Scrapped