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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

Ramakrishna Mission’s ‘Awakening’ Programme The Union Minister for Education launched Ramakrishna Mission’s ‘Awakening’ Programme for school students. ✓It is an initiative towards ensuring overall personality development of a child in line with the philosophy of National Education Policy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...