A strike on the Adani group by short-seller the U.S.-based Hindenburg Research has led to the unravelling of the Gautam Adani story, which celebrated the spectacular rise, in an extremely short period of time, of the wealth of a man and his business empire. Much of that wealth disappeared following …
Read More »GEO-HERITAGE SITES AND GEO-RELICS (PRESERVATION AND MAINTENANCE) BILL, 2022
Sporadically, but surely, palaeontologists report intriguing discoveries from India. In January, a team discovered 92 dinosaur nesting sites with 256 fossilised eggs of the titanosaurus — among the largest of its kind, from 100-66 million years ago, when ‘India’ was a continent and yet to merge into the Eurasian land …
Read More »CONSUMER PRICE INDEX AND UNTAMED INFLATION
Just five days after Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das asserted that inflation ‘has shown signs of moderation and the worst is behind us’, Monday’s release of Consumer Price Index (CPI) estimates for January revealed a disconcerting reversal in price gains trend. Headline retail inflation, which had steadily eased …
Read More »DEFENCE & AATHMA NIRBHAR (Make In India)
Fighting future wars with complete indigenous systems is a work in progress, setting a timeline of eight to 10 years to attain the goal. The Russia-Ukraine conflict held key lessons in this quest. It has brought out the fact that it is important to be self-reliant in niche technologies to …
Read More »ChatGPT & CYBERSECURITY
ChatGPT is fun and provides us with various contents but its also making the cyber criminal’s life easier. While OpenAI, which created ChatGPT, has built barriers to stop malicious content creation on the platform, criminals are working their way around these to create phishing emails and malware code. Generative AI …
Read More »MILLET – SUPER FOOD
Till the onset of the green revolution, millets used to be staple food for many communities in India. They were 25% of the staple food supply in the early 1970s. However, the green revolution technology and policy environment gave rice and wheat a strong advantage over millets. This led to …
Read More »LIGHT POLLUTION
At night, light from homes and streets reflects off Earth’s surface, leading to a constant ‘haze’ that makes celestial bodies hard to see. This is most noticeable in urban environments where even bright celestial bodies are barely visible to the naked eye. Artificial Light management The Indian Institute of Astrophysics …
Read More »DARK SKY OBSERVATORY – HANLE
Hanle Dark Sky Reserve Is Expected To Boost Tourism And Wildlife Conservation At High Altitude India’s first ‘dark sky reserve’ or night sky sanctuary,lies at an elevation of 4,500m above sea level in a cluster of six hamlets that form Han le village inside the Changthang Cold Desert Wildlife Sanctuary …
Read More »J&K – NEW SOURCE OF LITHIUM:
A lot rides on lithium in the age of electric mobility and personal devices. But the lightest metal known to humans is also famously scarce. Hence, the discovery of lithium deposits in J&K could come as a potential game changer for India. Chethan Kumar breaks it down. Lithium Referred to …
Read More »SEA LEVELS UP 4.5MM PER YEAR DURING 2013-22, SEVERAL BIG CITIES AT RISK
Underlining how climate change-linked rise in sea level poses a threat to countries like India, China, Bangladesh and the Netherlands, World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said the rise has been 4. 5mm per year during 2013-22. It could continue through this century, recording a total rise of 0. 6m by 2100, …
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