Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) – Blacklisting of Training Partners
Why in news? The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has blacklisted 178 training partners and training centres under the Pradhan Mantr...
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Why in news? The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has blacklisted 178 training partners and training centres under the Pradhan Mantr...
Why in news? The striped hyena recently appeared in news reports following sightings near human settlements and discussions about its conservation sta...
Why in news? The government recently highlighted the achievements of the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) during parliamentary disc...
Why in news? NASA’s Swift observatory detected hydroxyl gas around the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, signalling the presence of water molecules. At t...
Why in news? Karnataka’s Environment Minister directed wildlife authorities to discontinue the final evening safari at Bandipur Tiger Reserve. Farme...
Why in news? A Gulf expatriate returning to Kerala was diagnosed with scrub typhus, a mite‑borne bacterial infection usually confined to Southeast A...
Why in news? Marine scientists in Greece have deployed thousands of mussels around the Saronic Gulf to measure levels of microplastic pollution. The f...
Why in news? Tanzania featured in current discussions about African economic partnerships and tourism opportunities. To understand its significance, i...
Why in news? Wildlife enthusiasts captured images of an Indian spotted chevrotain, commonly called the mouse deer, in Maharashtra’s Tungareshwar Wil...
Why in news? The normally transparent waters of the Umngot River in Meghalaya have turned brown due to soil and debris dumped during road construction...
Why in news? India’s Ramman festival returned to the spotlight after the President of India was presented with a traditional Ramman mask during a cu...
Why in news? The Indian Navy’s offshore patrol vessel INS Savitri made a port call to Port Louis in early November 2025. During the visit the ship�...
Why in news? Researchers at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar, are investigating whether the seeds of cycad plants cont...
Why in news? Odisha’s chief minister recently laid the foundation stone for the country’s first end‑to‑end silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor...
Why in news? Marine biologists from Berhampur University in Odisha and Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University have uncovered two tiny crustaceans n...
Why in news? Researchers documenting spiders in the Western Ghats have described a new species of jumping spider named Pilia malenadu. The genus Pilia...
Why in news? A comprehensive study published in Environmental Earth Sciences has highlighted alarming levels of heavy metals in sediments and fishes o...
Why in news? Kerala’s forest department has removed vast stands of invasive wattle trees from Pampadum Shola National Park, allowing native shola gr...
Why in news? Shankar, the lone African elephant at Delhi’s National Zoological Park, died suddenly after contracting the Encephalomyocarditis virus ...
Why in news? The forest department of Andhra Pradesh is gearing up for the All India Tiger Estimation 2026. The Nagarjunasagar–Srisailam Tiger Reser...