Environment
Hoolock Gibbon
Why in news? Wildlife officials and volunteers in Arunachal Pradesh recently rescued a family of hoolock gibbons that had been trapped on a lone tree ...
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Why in news? Wildlife officials and volunteers in Arunachal Pradesh recently rescued a family of hoolock gibbons that had been trapped on a lone tree ...
Why in news? The World Health Organisation has warned that measles killed about ninety‑five thousand people worldwide in 2024, mostly unvaccinated c...
Why in news? On 7 December 2025 a small group of soldiers took over Benin’s state television and announced that they had removed President Patrice T...
Why in news? India is hosting the twentieth session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage fro...
Why in news? Ten blackbucks at the Tata Steel Zoological Park in Jamshedpur died suddenly this week. Veterinarians suspect haemorrhagic septicaemia, a...
Why in news? Researchers at the University of Oxford recently announced the discovery of a razor‑thin cosmic filament about fifty million light yea...
Why in news? Researchers studying Africa’s Zambezi River have discovered that the river’s true length is about 11 percent greater than previously ...
Why in news? The Union Minister for Minority Affairs announced that waqf property managers will not face penalties for the next three months if they h...
Why in news? The Union Ministry of Food Processing Industries released an update on the PM Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises (PMFME) ...
Why in news? Two pairs of red‑breasted parakeets, also known as moustached parakeets, were recently seen flying around the campus of the National In...
Why in news? A young tigress from Madhya Pradesh’s Pench Tiger Reserve was safely translocated to the Ramgarh Vishdhari Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan o...
Why in news? The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) recently handed over seven indigenously developed technologies to the Indian Arm...
