Local name for Swidden Agriculture in India
Local name for Swidden Agriculture in India
Which of the following species of trees were suited for building ships and railways?
Which of the following species of trees were suited for building ships and railways?
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NABARD launched ‘JIVA Programme’ to promote natural farming
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has launched the ‘JIVA programme’ to promote natural farming under its existing watershed and wadi programmes in 11 states. To effectively implement the principles of agroecology long-term sustainability and transform the pre-existing social and natural capital towards efficient farming. JIVA is an agroecology-based programme, an amalgamation of several projects under
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Which of the following is not a feature of shifting cultivation?
Which of the following is not a feature of shifting cultivation?
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Nobel Prize winning French Scientist Luc Montagnier, who discovered HIV Virus, passes away at 89
Luc Montagnier, the French virologist and Nobel laureate whose co-discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus sparked a global search for an AIDS cure, has died. He was 89. He died on Feb. 8 at a hospital in a suburb of Paris. The noted virologist won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which he
Which of the following was not a feature of ‘scientific forestry’?
Which of the following was not a feature of ‘scientific forestry’?
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CA Debashis Mitra elected as ICAI President for 2022-23
A visionary with strong academic leaning and having deep professional insight, CA. (Dr.) Debashis Mitra, has been elected as the President of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) for the year 2022-23. While Aniket Sunil Talati has been elected as Vice President of ICAI.
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India to help Sri Lanka launch its version of Aadhaar Card
India has agreed to provide a grant to Sri Lanka to implement a ‘Unitary Digital Identity framework’, apparently modelled on the Aadhaar card. The Rajapaksa government will “prioritise” the implementation of the Framework as a national-level programme. The initiative follows bilateral talks between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa & Prime Minister Narendra Modi in December 2019.
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Military officer Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba appointed as interim President of Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso’s new military strongman, Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, has been declared President by the country’s top constitutional body after a coup last month, legal sources said Thursday. The 2022 Burkina Faso military coup took place on January 24, 2022, which was led by Damiba. President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré and Prime Minister Lassina Zerbo were