Geography
Buckingham Canal: Navigation Plan & Revival in Chennai
Why in news?The Tamil Nadu government is examining a ₹876.35-crore proposal for central Chennai. It covers 7.2 kilometres of the Buckingham Canal. T...
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Why in news?The Tamil Nadu government is examining a ₹876.35-crore proposal for central Chennai. It covers 7.2 kilometres of the Buckingham Canal. T...
Why in news?Italy was reported to have requested €8 billion from the European Union’s defence loan programme. The instrument is called Security Ac...
Why in news?A peer-reviewed study confirmed the spoon-tailed duskhawker in India through verifiable photographs. The male dragonfly was recorded insid...
Why in news?The Environment Ministry urged the National Green Tribunal to seek annual Neelakurinji conservation plans from three states. Kerala, Tamil...
Why in news?Indian and Vietnamese coast guard leaders held their seventh high-level meeting in Chennai on 25 August. They reviewed search and rescue, ...
Why in news?The Defence Research and Development Organisation tested its Military Combat Parachute System at Nyoma on 26 August. The reported jump occ...
Why in news?The Supreme Court ordered interim safeguards for Rajasthan’s Jojari River on 24 August. It barred construction within 100 metres of the ...
Why in news?Researchers published a large comparative study of gut bacteria among communities in India and Sri Lanka. The study included 575 healthy a...
Why in news?A new solar-powered water arrangement began serving Velladhotti hamlet inside Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve. Residents had faced a long and...
Why in news?Small Industries Development Bank of India convened leaders of all 28 Regional Rural Banks on 25 August. The New Delhi meeting discussed e...
Why in news?Botanists described a new flowering plant species from Telangana in the journal Phytotaxa. They named it Ammannia telanganensis after the ...
Why in news?Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched Mission Samriddh Gaon in New Delhi on 25 August. The pilot will cover Budni and Khategaon bl...
