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Swachh Survekshan Awards 2022 Cleanest City: ✓More than 1 lakh Population: Indore, the city of lakes and palaces, walked away with the Cleanest City title, while Surat was adjudged the second cleanest city, for the second time in a row, Navi Mumbai bagged the third spot. ✓Less than 1 lakh Population: Panchgani and Karad from […]

A quest for the ‘ghost’ cat based on lore- ✓Wildlife officials in Arunachal Pradesh await results of a survey to ascertain the presence of snow leopards in the Namdapha National Park and Tiger Reserve. ✓The snow leopard has never been spotted nor recorded in the Namdapha National Park. ✓The belief that the national park is

Food security in India and PMGKAY- ✅Public rice and wheat stocks, at just over 60 million tonnes recently, are at a 5-year-low and 2/3rd of their level a year ago ✅Yet, the govt. has extended its free-grain Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) scheme for another 3 months till December. ● India’s food reserves

The Great Barrier Reef’s recovery and vulnerability to climate threats- ✓The highest levels of coral cover, within the past 36 years, has been recorded in the northern and central parts of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (GBR), according to the annual long term monitoring report by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). ✓This could be

Fertilizer use Related Government Initiatives? ✓Nano Urea Production: Eight new nano urea plants, which are being centrally monitored, will start production by November 2025. These are located in several states, including Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Assam. ✓Neem Coating of Urea: The Department of Fertilizers (DoF) has made it mandatory for all the domestic producers to

Digital Services Act The European union has given final approval to online safety-focused legislation called Digital Services Act (DSA), which is an overhaul of the region’s social media and e-commerce rules. ✓As defined by the EU Commission, the DSA is “a set of common rules on intermediaries’ obligations and accountability across the single market”, and

ANGAN 2.0  ✓Organized by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), Ministry of Power, in collaboration with Swiss Agency for Development & Cooperation (SDC) under the Indo-Swiss Building Energy Efficiency Project (BEEP). ✓Theme: The conference witnessed deliberation on critical issues like “Unlocking Finance for Low-Carbon Buildings, “Thermal Comfort and Climate Resilience in Residential buildings”. ✓ The

Poshan Vatika ✓Poshan Vatika means that small piece of land where the people of the house grow vegetables to make sure that all in the family specially children and women should not become victim of mal-nutrition. Objective: ✓Its main objective is to ensure supply of nutrition through organically home-grown vegetables and fruits simultaneously ensuring that

National Clean Air Programme? ✓It was launched by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) in January 2019. It is the first-ever effort in the country to frame a national framework for air quality management with a time-bound reduction target. ✓It seeks to cut the concentration of coarse (particulate matter of diameter 10