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[Society] How is India planning to end child marriage?

2022-11-11T14:29:57+05:30By |Categories: Society|

Background The steering committee of a global programme to end child marriage is on a visit to India to witness state interventions which have helped reduce the prevalence of child marriage. The visit by the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage team is in view of an estimated increase [...]

DNA [Daily News Analysis] – 05 Nov 2022

2022-11-08T14:38:46+05:30By |Categories: Daily Current Events|

News Snippet News 1: Govt.’s SRI Fund commits ₹5,000 cr. to aid MSMEs News 2: Make – II Project News 3: The Harvest of Polluted Air News 4: Governors and their removal Other important news: China’s home-grown Beidou satellite system eyes global footprint SEWA Foreign Exchange Reserve Mathura-Vrindavan aims to [...]

DNA [Daily News Analysis] – 04 Nov 2022

2022-11-08T14:05:33+05:30By |Categories: Daily Current Events|

News Snippet News 1: Decline in pre-primary enrolments continued in 2021-22 News 2: Child Welfare Police Officers a must in all police stations News 3: Amur falcons and Nagaland News 4: RISAT-2 satellite makes re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere News 5: Mauna Loa eruption News 6: Poppy cultivation and Afghanistan Other [...]

DNA [Daily News Analysis] – 03 Nov 2022

2022-11-05T15:52:48+05:30By |Categories: Daily Current Events|

News Snippet News 1: Centre ‘doubles’ fertilizer subsidy as prices see a surge News 2: Protests in Leh, Kargil for statehood as Ladakh completes 3 years as U.T. News 3: India- USA defence ties News 4: Legislator’s disqualification from Assembly News 5: Panamaram heronry in Kerala set to get a [...]

[Agriculture] DMH-11 – The new hybrid variant of mustard

2022-11-05T13:30:37+05:30By |Categories: Agriculture|

Background The Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), India’s apex regulator of genetically modified plants and food products, has approved the environmental release of Dhara Mustard Hybrid-11 (DMH-11), a genetically-engineered variant of mustard. If approved for commercial cultivation it would be the first genetically modified food crop available to Indian farmers. [...]

DNA [Daily News Analysis] – 02 Nov 2022

2022-11-05T13:02:58+05:30By |Categories: Daily Current Events|

News Snippet News 1: Invasive tree spreading in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve News 2: At SCO meet, Jaishankar targets BRI News 3: Poll Freebies – Supreme Court Update News 4: How women subverted traditional roles during the farm law agitations News 5: The C-295 and India’s aircraft industry News 6: E-rupee [...]

DNA [Daily News Analysis] – 01 Nov 2022

2022-11-03T08:30:57+05:30By |Categories: Daily Current Events|

News Snippet News 1: RBI’s digital rupee pilot for wholesale starts today News 2: Decentralise MGNREGS for better implementation News 3: Scientists welcome clearance to GM mustard for farming News 4: SC to examine law depriving undertrials the right to vote News 5: The ambiguity over Economically Weaker Section and [...]

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