The United Nations General Assembly suspended Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council over reports of “gross and systematic violations and abuses of human rights” in Ukraine. India abstained from…
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In the first monetary policy of the new financial year, The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kept the repo rate unchanged at 4 percent and the reverse repo rate at…
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India and Australia inked the India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement in a virtual ceremony attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison. The move will…
Read MoreAfter banning the import of plastic waste in 2019, the Ministry of Environment allowed the import of PET bottles, as waste plastic, for processing. The decision to roll back…
Read MoreThe Central government has issued an order exempting certain types of genome-edited crops, SDN1 and SDN2 genome-edited plants, from the stringent regulations applicable to genetically modified or GM crops thus…
Read MoreThe Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed a Bill that seeks to remove the Bhogta caste from the list of Scheduled Castes (SCs) in Jharkhand and include certain other communities in…
Read MoreIn a paper published in Environment International, researchers found plastic in the blood of 17 of 22 of study participants, or about 77 percent. …
Read MoreThe Environment Ministry’s Expert Appraisal Committee has recommended a grant of environment clearance for Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd.’s expansion project in the Madurantakam taluk, around 3.7 km from the Vedanthangal…
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