Alfred Park

Alfred Park is the former name of the Chandrashekhar Azad Park in Allahabad. It is a public park that was built in 1870 to mark the arrival of Prince Alfred. It was renamed in 1931 after the freedom fighter, Chandrashekhar ..

Pratap Vilas palace

Pratap Vilas Palace is a Gaekwadi heritage structure in Vadodara, Gujarat. It was built by Maharaja Sayajirao III for his son, Lt Col Yuvraj Fatesinghrao Gaekwad in 1908. The architect of the structure was Charles F Stevens. It was named ..

Carbon Watch

Carbon watch is an app to determine an individual’s carbon footprint. Carbon footprint is the amount of GHGs (greenhouse gases) released by human activities into the atmosphere. This first of its kind app in India was launched in Chandigarh recently ..

Greater Tipraland

Greater Tipraland is a separate state for the tribes of Tripura being demanded by the Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura (IPFT). This includes the Tripura tribal council areas and the ‘Tiprasa’ of Tripuris which covers parts of other states like ..

Short selling

Short selling is an investment strategy in which an investor borrows a security, sells it in the open market and later buys it back at a lesser cost, thus earning profits. This strategy is used when the price of a ..

Bond yield

Bond yield is the effective rate of return that a bond earns. A bond is an instrument for borrowing money. Bonds are issued by companies and governments to raise funds. The bond’s rate of return changes with the price of ..

Conch of Marsoulas

The conch of Marsoulas is an ancient seashell horn that was used as a wind instrument some 18,000 years ago. It was discovered in 1931 in the Marsoulas Cave at the foothills of French Pyrenees. It is the shell of ..

Einsteinium

Einsteinium is the element 99 in the periodic table of elements. It was discovered in 1952 in the remnants of the ‘Ivy Mike’ thermonuclear device- the first hydrogen bomb- that was tested in the Pacific Ocean. It is named after ..

Rural e-Mobility Programme

Rural e-Mobility Programme is a campaign launched by the Common Service Centre (CSC) to promote the use of electric vehicles in Rural India. This campaign was launched at 100 CSC centres across the country. The CSC has tied up with ..

News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code Bill, 2020

News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code Bill 2020 is a proposed Australian law that seeks to mandate a bargaining code for forcing tech giants Google and Facebook to compensate the media companies for using their content. In this ..