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1. Mobile app KURMA helps save turtles in India Collaborative citizen science initiative provides database, helps identify species and lists rescue centres On May 23, 2020, World Turtle Day, a number of conservation agencies launched a citizen science initiative, a mobile-based application called KURMA, aimed at turtle conservation. The application, developed by the Indian Turtle […]
1. Iran ties need quiet diplomacy India must continue to remain politically engaged with Tehran despite its partnership plan with China Recent reports that Iran’s Transport and Urban Development Minister Mohammed Eslami had launched the track laying programme for the 628 km long rail link between Chabahar and Zahidan last week sparked concerns that India […]
1. India registers a steep decline in maternal mortality ratio Deaths drop from 130 to 113 in 2016-18 The Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) in India has declined to 113 in 2016-18 from 122 in 2015-17 and 130 in 2014-2016, according to the special bulletin on Maternal Mortality in India 2016-18, released by the Office of […]
1. India and EU push trade talks; discuss China, Pak. & pandemic NEW DELHI India and the European Union (European Union) committed to a framework for strategic cooperation until 2025, and vowed to cooperate on their response to the coronavirus pandemic and at the United Nations Security Council. The assurances came as Prime Minister Narendra […]
1. SC gives ex-royals right to manage deity’s property But a panel will administer Padmanabhaswamy temple NEW DELHI The Supreme Court on Monday held that the erstwhile Travancore royal family is the “human ministrant” or the shebait (manager) of the properties belonging to Sree Padmanabha, chief deity of the famed and fabulously rich Sree Padmanabhaswamy […]
1. Hardly smart about urban health care Despite the renewed policy focus on cities, the pandemic has exposed the weaknesses in handling a public emergency The novel coronavirus pandemic has largely been an urban crisis so far, with megacities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai accounting for most of the COVID-19 positive cases. Indian […]
1. Assam keelback spotted for the first time in 129 years The team also recorded 400 plants, 270 butterflies, 25 amphibians and 44 reptiles, 239 birds and at least 20 mammals Elusive vertebrate: The female snake was spotted in a muddy stream in the Poba reserve forestAbhijit Das Abhijit Das The Assam keelback snake has […]
1. 14% excess rain in India so far this monsoon 40% of districts have benefited from it Monsoon rainfall since June has been 14% more than what is normal for this time of the year. So far, India has received 28.7 cm rainfall as opposed to the typical 25.2 cm. Only on nine of the […]
1. Govt. ‘watching’ WHO alert on airborne spread of virus We are following the situation closely, says Health Ministry NEW DELHI Continuing to rule out community transmission of COVID-19 in the country, the Union Health Ministry on Thursday said it is “closely watching the dynamic evolution of the virus situation in India, with the World […]
1. Trump starts withdrawal of U.S. from WHO Washington President Donald Trump on Tuesday formally started the withdrawal of the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO), making good on threats to deprive the UN body of its top funding source over its response to the coronavirus. Public health advocates and Mr. Trump’s political opponents […]
1. Big flap: golden birdwing is India’s largest butterfly It dethroned a specimen found by a British Brigadier in 1932 GUWAHATI A Himalayan butterfly named golden birdwing is now India’s largest, a record the southern birdwing held for 88 years. With a wingspan of 194 mm, the female of the species is marginally larger than […]
1. PLA pulls back from Galwan clash site Disengagement begins after Doval-Wang Yi phone call; tents, structures dismantled at points on LAC NEW DELHI Three weeks after the worst military clashes in decades, India and China have begun the process of disengagement at contentious locations along the disputed Line of Actual Control (LAC), a government […]
