'Saharsa is the first district in Bihar to be declared paperless.' Anand Sharma, a 2013-batch IAS officer and Faculty of Management Studies graduate, quit his marketing job at Hindustan Petroleum t Read More...

'The Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) and the Indian Space Research Organization (Isro) have decided to work together to trace the history of India’s contribution in the field of sci Read More...

'The World Health Organization announced Monday that monkeypox will be renamed MPOX in English to avoid stigma associated with the current name.' The virus that causes monkeypox was first discovere Read More...

'For the first time in nearly 40 years, the largest active volcano in the world, Mauna Loa, whose name means "Long Mountain," in Hawaii, has erupted.' The Big Island of the US state of Hawaii is co Read More...

'Indian Navy’ s third Survey Vehicle ‘Ikshak’ has been launched  in Chennai which is being built by GRSE and L&T.' This is the third of the third of the four Survey Vesse Read More...

'Researchers from IISER-Thiruvananthapuram and IIT-Indore have developed a new artificial light-harvesting system that can efficiently capture light for power conversion by mimicking photosynthesis, t Read More...

'Recently, SARAS 3 has provided clues to the nature of the Universe’s first stars and galaxies.' Using data from the telescope which has been deployed over the Dandiganahalli Lake and Shara Read More...

'Red Planet Day commemorates the launch of the Mariner 4 spacecraft and is a day to celebrate the planet Mars and learn more about it.' Mariner 4, a robotic interplanetary probe, was launched by NA Read More...

'Researchers at Smithsonian Institution, Washington have discovered five new species of black corals living as deep as 2,500 feet (760 metres) below the surface in the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea Read More...

'The Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI) has approved the Himalayan Yak as a 'food animal'.' The move is expected to help check decline in the population of the high-altitude bovi Read More...