Scientists and students from Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG) studied rivers in Ladakh Himalaya, bringing out 35 thousand-year history of river erosion and identified hotspots of erosion and wide valleys that act a buffer zones. The study showed the operation of rivers in drier ...

Agra Smart City has created a GIS dashboard which will show various hotspots, heat map, positive cases, recovered cases etc. Agra Smart City dashboard updates the COVID-19 latest detail on a daily basis and it can be accessed from the link: http://covid.sgligis.com/agra. The dashboard is ...

International Labour Day or Worker's day is celebrated on 1 May every year to celebrate labourers and the working class. The day promotes international labour associations. The day commemorates the Haymarket affair or the Haymarket massacre in Chicago. The day is observed as a national ...

Maharashtra Day and Gujarat Day is celebrated in the Indian states of Maharashtra and Gujarat on 1 May every year. The day commemorates the formation of the state on this day in 1960. In 1960, the Bombay Reorganization Act, 1960 was passed by India's Parliament to divide the multilingual state ...

Pune-based Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT) has developed a microwave steriliser 'Atulya' that can disintegrate the novel coronavirus. The sterilizer will disintegrate the coronavirus by differential heating in the range of 560 to 600 Celsius temperatures. The product is a ...

The All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA), under Ministry of AYUSH and Delhi Police organised AYURAKSHA programme for Delhi Police personal at New Delhi. The joint programme titled AYURAKSHA “Corona Se Jung- Delhi Police Ke Sang” aims to fight against corona through simple and time tested ...

The National Council for Science & Technology Communication (NCSTC), Department of Science & Technology (DST) has released an information brochure for a recently launched programme on health and risk communication ‘Year of Awareness on Science & Health (YASH) with focus on COVID-19’. ...

Chak-Hao, the black rice of Manipur and the Gorakhpur terracotta have bagged the Geogrphical Indication (GI) tag. Chak-Hao is scented glutinous rice. It has been cultivated in Manipur over centuries. It is characterized by its special aroma. It is normally eaten during community feasts and ...

Shri Ajay Tirkey assumed charge as Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) in New Delhi on 1 May 2020. He succeeded Shri Rabindra Panwar who retired on superannuation on 30 April 2020. Ajay Tirkey is the 1987 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre. Prior to this, held the ...

CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, Chandigarh, has designed and developed an innovative technology for effective disinfection and sanitization to fight with corona pandemic. CSIR-CSIO has transferred this technology to a Nagpur-based company, Rite Water Solutions Pvt. Ltd., for ...

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has released a new list with the names of 169 tropical cyclones that are likely to emerge over the north Indian Ocean, including the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The tropical cyclones forming over ...

JNCASR scientists have developed a natural product based Alzheimer inhibitor. Scientists from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) have modified the structure of Berberine, a natural and cheap product similar to curcumin, available commercially, into Ber-D to use as a ...