An interested person is not entitled to file public interest litigation (PIL), the Supreme Court has said while dismissing a plea against an order of the Karnataka High Court which…
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India, re-elected to the United Nations Human Rights(HR) Council for a sixth term. 18 member countries also elected. The other countries that elected the council are the United States, United…
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India has developed an indigenous technology to convert high ash Indian coal to methanol and established its first pilot plant, September 2021 in Hyderabad. This technology will help the country…
Read MoreThe Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov “for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a…
Read MoreThe Nobel Prize for literature 2021 is awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee…
Read MoreThe World Health Organization endorsed the first Malaria vaccine, the first step in a process that should lead to wide distribution in poor countries. The vaccine, called Mosquirix, is not…
Read MoreThe World Health Organisation (WHO), last month, released a revised Global Air Quality Guidelines, announcing more stringent limits for six pollutant categories —particulate matter (PM), ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2)…
Read MoreThe 2021 NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.” This has had a great impact on pharmaceutical research,…
Read MoreThe Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute has awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature…
Read MorePrime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Rashtriya Jal Jeevan Kosh (RJJK) to facilitate contributions for the creation of safe drinking water supply in villages. This is a part of the…
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