Methane Emissions: Super-Emitters, Greenhouse Gas & Global Warming
Why in news? Recent satellite data processed by Carbon Mapper and analysed by the Stop Methane Project have revealed that 15 of the world’s top 25 m...
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Why in news? Recent satellite data processed by Carbon Mapper and analysed by the Stop Methane Project have revealed that 15 of the world’s top 25 m...
Why in news? During the Budget session in March 2026, the Minister of State for Agriculture told Parliament that India contributes over 30 percent of ...
Why in news? The Meghalaya cabinet extended the term of the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council (GHADC) by six months in March 2026 following prote...
Why in news? The Union Cabinet approved a new Small Hydro Power (SHP) Development Scheme for 2026‑27 to 2030‑31 with an outlay of about ₹2,584.6...
Why in news? On 16 March 2026 the Indian Navy commenced the second edition of the Indian Ocean Ship (IOS) SAGAR initiative. Training sessions were hel...
Why in news? The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released a 2025 assessment treating the Indian wolf as a distinct taxon and cat...
Why in news? Vietnam features regularly in international discourse because of its strategic location in the Indo‑Pacific and its rapidly growing eco...
Why in news? The Union Cabinet approved the Bharat Audyogik Vikas Yojna (BHAVYA) with an allocation of about ₹33,660 crore to develop 100 plug‑and...
Why in news? The Stockholm International Water Institute announced that Professor Kaveh Madani, Director of the United Nations University’s Institut...
Why in news? The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved ₹1,718.56 crore in Minimum Support Price (MSP) funding for the Cotton Corporation of...
Why in news? On 18 March 2026 the Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) launched an anti‑dumping investigation into imports of ethyl chlorofo...
Why in news? India and Indonesia have agreed to work together to restore the Prambanan Temple complex in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The partnership unders...
Why in news? The Indian Navy is taking part in Exercise Sea Dragon 2026, an anti‑submarine warfare drill hosted by the U.S. Navy at Andersen Air For...
Why in news? The National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) successfully tested an indigenously developed floating LiDAR buoy off the coast of Mutt...
Why in news? The Department of Posts launched “24 Speed Post”, a next‑day delivery service (D+1) for urgent consignments in selected metro city ...
Why in news? India rejected the 2026 annual report of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, saying it presented a biased and selecti...
Why in news? A study led by scientists at the U.S. National Institutes of Health found that cholesterol accumulated in the nuclear envelope of cancer ...
Why in news? A recent survey of the Hindon River in western Uttar Pradesh reported zero dissolved oxygen at several sites, indicating that the water i...
Why in news? Geologists from the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology have reconstructed the history of the Ladakh Magmatic Arc (LMA), a belt of igneo...
Why in news? The Geological Survey of India (GSI) announced that the hill region around Kalinjar Fort in Banda district, Uttar Pradesh, has been desig...