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Prime Minister of India launched the ‘Call Before u Dig’ (CBuD) app recently. To facilitate coordination between excavation agencies and underground utility owners to prevent damage to utilities due to digging. To prevent damage to underlying assets like optical fiber cables that occurs because of uncoordinated digging and excavation. Implementing Authority: It is an initiative of the Department of Telecommunications, Ministry …

Key details: It is situated at the trijunction of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. It is known for its population of critically endangered gharials. National Chambal Sanctuary, also called the National Chambal Gharial Wildlife Sanctuary, is a protected area in for the protection of: the Critically Endangered gharial, the red-crowned roof turtle and the Endangered Ganges river …

Even as the global economy is set to slow down or even enter a recession in 2023 as financial markets worldwide face heightened uncertainty, the Indian economy is steadily gathering momentum, Reserve Bank of India (RBI). India had emerged from the pandemic years stronger than initially thought, they asserted. “Unlike …

The war against black money stashed abroad appears to have slowed down in the first nine months of FY23 compared with the previous two years, with just 59 assessment orders for tax demands totalling ₹2,098 crore being passed, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary’s reply in Parliament shows. In …

What are recombinants? Co-infection of multiple lineages of a virus could result in recombinations between genomes which can give rise to chimeric genomes, otherwise called recombinants. While most recombinations may not give rise to viable viruses, there is a rare possibility that recombination could result in the creation of a …

The Kerala government recently announced the State’s first waste-to-energy project in Kozhikode. The planned facility is expected to be built in two years and generate about 6 MW of power. There are around 100 waste-to-energy projects around the country but only a handful of them are operational, thanks to various production …

In unprecedented haste, the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has cleared the decks for a mega project at the cost of about ₹70,000 crore at the southern tip of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. NITI Aayog is piloting the project and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands …

The findings of a recent report by Swiss technology company IQAir said 39 of the world’s top 50 most polluted cities were in India. IQAir is a Swiss air quality technology company that prepares annual world air quality reports based on data from monitoring stations operated by governments and other institutions and organisations across the …

In the never-ending debate about the origin of the virus that set off the COVID-19 pandemic, there is now fresh grist for the mill for those who have held out for the zoonotic angle — that the infection skipped from animals to humans. Undisclosed genetic data from a food market …

GDP growth may have slowed to 4.4% in the third quarter (Q3) from 6.3% in Q2, but “growth has not gotten shallower” and the momentum has sustained through the course of 2022-23, the Finance Ministry asserted on Monday. Macroeconomic stability was likely to get a further boost this year as …