Polity
Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Authority
Why in news? The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Authority (PPV&FRA) marked its 21st Foundation Day on 11 November 2025. During th...
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Why in news? The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Authority (PPV&FRA) marked its 21st Foundation Day on 11 November 2025. During th...
Why in news? A clinical trial known as TARGET‑D reported in 2025 that adults who had previously experienced a heart attack and took personalised dos...
Why in news? On 11 November 2025, India’s National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) inaugurated the country’s first megawatt‑hour‑scale Vanadi...
Why in news? A tragic incident in November 2025 brought the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve in Uttar Pradesh into focus when a local farmer was killed by a tig...
Why in news? Wildlife officials in India’s Himalayan states have reported that Himalayan black bears are becoming unusually active and aggressive be...
Why in news? At the 43rd session of UNESCO’s General Conference held in Samarkand, the Sultanate of Oman was elected to the Man and the Biosphere (M...
Why in news? A wave of recent exoplanet research has reignited interest in the Rare Earth Hypothesis. Astronomers have discovered that many planets pr...
Why in news? The Indian Railways plans to deploy a new system called DRISHTI (Dynamic Real‑time Intelligent Surveillance for High‑value Transport ...
Why in news? A study published in Scientific Reports in November 2025 proposes that Neanderthals did not vanish through a sudden extinction but were g...
Why in news? The Sunabeda Wildlife Sanctuary in Odisha has attracted fresh attention as proposals to convert it into a tiger reserve have stalled for ...
Why in news? The National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE) has proposed India’s first offshore wind demonstration farm near Dhanushkodi in Tamil Nadu...
Why in news? Indian Rare Earths Limited (IREL) has announced plans to increase production of the rare earth element neodymium to about 500 tonnes by F...
