Stiff resistance from at least 12 villages in Meghalaya has cast a cloud on a 210 MW hydroelectric project on Umngot, considered India’s clearest river. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The villages are near the border with Bangladesh in East Khasi Hills district but the dam is proposed upstream in the adjoining West Jaintia Hills […]
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In a recent detailed analysis of South Asian river dolphins has revealed that the Indus and Ganges River dolphins are not one, but two separate species. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Currently, Indus and Ganges River dolphins are classified as two subspecies under Platanista gangetica. But according to a new study, this classification needs a
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The population of dolphins in Chilika, India’s largest brackish water lake, and along the Odisha coast has doubled this year compared with last year. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The State Environment Department released the final data on the dolphin census conducted in January and February this year, indicating a spectacular growth in numbers. Three
Many animals and plants unique to the world’s most scenic natural places face extinction if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, according to a new study published in the journal Biological Conservation. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Climate change will negatively affect most native and endemic species — those that are only found in very
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Uttarakhand has witnessed over 1,000 incidents of forest fire over the last six months, including 45 in the last 24 hours alone, and has reached out to the Centre for helicopters and personnel from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Since the start of 2021, there has been a series
India has pushed back deadlines for coal-fired power plants to adopt new emission norms by up to three years, and allowed utilities that miss the new target to continue operating after paying a penalty. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 India had initially set a 2017 deadline for thermal power plants to install Flue Gas Desulphurization
The much-vaunted inter-state tiger translocation drive ended in a whimper after Sundari, the four-and-half year-old tigress relocated from Madhya Pradesh in 2018 to Satkoisa tiger reserve in Odisha’s Angul district was sent back to the Kanha reserve in Madhya Pradesh. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The five-year-old tigress spent 28 months in captivity in Satkosia
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Six tigers have been unaccounted for since March 2020 in the Ranthambore tiger sanctuary, Rajasthan. However, State forest officials are not willing to label them “missing” and denied reports that they may have been poached. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The National Tiger Conservation Authority, a wing of the Union Environment Ministry, has constituted a
According to the report from IQ Air, Delhi remained the most polluted capital city in the world but India, on the whole, had improved its average annual PM 2.5 (particulate matter) levels higher in 2020 than in 2019. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 IQ Air is a Swiss air quality technology company, specialising in protection
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World Energy Transitions Outlook report, brought out by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) says that the COVID-19 crisis offers an unexpected opportunity for countries across the world to decouple their economies from fossil fuels and accelerate the shift to renewable energy sources. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Previewed at the virtual Berlin Energy Transition
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