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Why in news? Bharatanatyam dancer Saroja Vaidyanathan has died. The classical dancer was conferred the Padma Shri in 2002 and the Padma...

In 2021-2022, India surpassed Brazil to become the largest sugar producer in the world, producing 359 lakh tonnes – an all-time high....

Deflation Deflation is when the prices of goods and services decrease across the entire economy, increasing the purchasing power of...

In order to promote the indigenous crafts and artisans of India the One District One Product (ODOP) program has collaborated with the...

The Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry named Indore the best city and Madhya Pradesh the best state in its India Smart Cities...

The 15th BRICS Summit invited six countries to join the alliance. These countries are - Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia,...

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has successfully conducted a test flight for cloud seeding. About Cloud Seeding • It is a...

The Prime Minister launched the National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission in Madhya Pradesh. Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) A type of...

Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) aims to conduct a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) survey before excavations. About LiDAR A...

US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Elon Musk’s Neuralink chip for human trials. More on News • It aims to build a...

Lok Sabha recently passed the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill (DPDP), 2023. Bill aims to regulate the processing of digital...

Celebration of the 150th Birth Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo concluded at Auroville, Puducherry. About Sri Aurobindo 20th-century Bengali...

Chandrayaan-3 lander accomplished a ‘soft landing’ on the Moon’s south pole. The spot where the Chandrayaan-3 Vikram lander made a soft...

August 2, is observed as the Earth Overshoot Day for year 2023. Earth Overshoot Day is marked as the date when humanity’s demand for...

Minamata Convention on Mercury, adopted in 2013 at Geneva, is first global legally binding treaty to protect human health and environment...

Light Combat Aircraft Tejas, has successfully been test fired the ASTRA missile. o It is a Beyond Visual Range Air - to - Air missile,...

It will enable bank customers to find their unclaimed deposits across multiple banks in one place. o Unclaimed deposits: Balances in...

Two Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSE’s) are Oil India, which was earlier a Navratna company (now Maharatna), and ONGC Videsh,...

Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Ministry of AYUSH organised First WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit “Towards...

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