Corbett National Park

Ramganga National Park could be the name of the Corbett National Park in the future. Ashwini Kumar Choubey, MoS Forest and Environment hinted at the renaming of India’s first national park, which extends over an area of ​​around 521 km. ..

Gujarat Private Universities (Second Amendment) Bill 2021

The Private Universities (Second Amendment) Bill 2021, in the state of Gujarat was passed unanimously in the State Assembly on the first day of the monsoon session. This bill will prevent scholarship-funded universities from joining private universities. Highlights The bill ..

Multilingual Dementia Research and Assessment (MUDRA) Toolbox

On October 5, 2021, the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) published the “Multilingual Dementia Research and Assessment Toolbox (MUDRA)” in five Indian languages. Highlights This Toolbox was created to expand support and care towards people with dementia. This toolbox ..

SVAMITVA Scheme: PM Modi Interacts with Beneficiaries

Survey of Villages and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas or the SVAMITVA Scheme is a collaborative effort of the State Panchayati Raj Departments, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Survey of India and State Revenue Departments. On 6th October, 2021, ..

Asymmetric Organocatalysis

This year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry has been won by two organic chemists who developed asymmetric organocatalysis more than two decades ago by David MacMillan of Princeton University, USA and Benjamin List of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, ..

Double Asteroid Redirection Test Mission

NASA, the US Space Agency has announced that they will launch an asteroid-killing Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft on 24th November, 2021. NASA is ready for the upcoming launch, an evaluation of technologies that will prevent a dangerous asteroid ..

Mosquirix

The World Health Organization (WHO) has suggested the world’s initial protozoal infection vaccine and suggested its use on youngsters in Africa. Highlights The recommendation of this vaccinum was declared director-general of UN agency Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. It has been referred ..

Nujiang Pit Viper and Glacier Pit Viper

Two new species of vipers of the genus Gloydius have been described by scientists from Heishui in Sichuan and Zayu in Tibet. About Pit Vipers Pit vipers of the genus Gloydius are poisonous snakes found mainly in northern Asia The ..

Deep Brain Stimulation

Doctors at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) successfully treated a severely depressed patient by identifying and harnessing brain circuits associated with depressed brain patterns. Doctors have tried to re-establish these patterns, which they believe is equivalent to wearing ..

Hypogean Freshwater Eel

A new species of blind swamp eel of the genus Rakthamichthys was discovered in a well in Mumbai by naturalist Tejas Thackeray, son of Uddhav Thackeray, the chief minister of Maharashtra. Highlights The new species that was discovered is a ..