World Elephant Day: India’s jumbos stare at a worrying future . Context Today only about 27,000 wild elephants remain in India, as opposed to a million a decade ago....

Antibiotics, river contamination and healthcare . Issue Several rivers in the world, including those in India, have been reported to have high concentrations of antibiotics such as ciprofloxacin, norfloxacin, oxytetracycline and ofloxacin....

Reading the new State of Forest Report 2019 . Context State of Forest Report 2019 has shown a 1,275 sq km gain in very dense forest, but what this...

Looming water crisis in India . Context According to the World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas, India is among the 17 countries, facing “extremely high” water stress....

GISAT-1 mission” . Context An ISRO GSLV-II rocket will launch the GISAT-1 mission.  . About: GISAT-1 is an Indian earth observation satellite to be launched in geostationary orbit. It...

Genome India Project Context The government has cleared an ambitious gene-mapping project that is being described by those involved as the “first scratching of the surface of the vast...

‘National Mission on Quantum Technologies & Applications (NM-QTA)’ . Context The government in its budget 2020 has announced a National Mission on Quantum Technologies & Applications (NM-QTA) with a...

Voyager 2 . Context In an incredible feat of remote engineering, NASA has fixed one of the most intrepid explorers in human history. Voyager 2, currently some 11.5 billion miles from Earth,...

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