While PM claims island was ‘callously given away’, in 2015, MEA's RTI reply says case ‘of acquiring or ceding' the island does not arise. ThePrint explains Katchatheevu situation.
Ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was Thursday sentenced to 20-year jail in 1996 drug planting case, while he had been handed life imprisonment in 2019 in custodial death case.
International Diabetes Federation recommends 1-hr plasma glucose test, a more sensitive & practical method. A 1-hPG value of 209 mg/dL or more indicates Type 2 diabetes.
However, the International Labour Organization flags an unemployment crisis in India. Report an analysis of employment scenarios from 2000 to 2022, relies heavily on govt surveys.
Shipping experts & economists say impact on coal-importing countries is likely to be negligible, and India could potentially gain from this disruption if it's agile enough.
Carlsberg Ridge & Afanasy-Nikitin Seamount in Indian Ocean are of New Delhi's interest for which it has submitted applications for exploration to International Seabed Authority.
Russia claims missile can reach eight times the speed of sound. If true, it would be the ‘fastest missile in the world’, could evade the advanced US Patriot air defence system.
New study shows AMOC, which drives crucial climate & weather patterns, could collapse within this century. Scientists fear this could precipitate devastating climate events.
Responding to Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's allegation on fog-induced chaos, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia says most aircraft in India not designed for such low visibility operation.
The issue of the Muslim quota has the potential to polarise SCs, STs, and OBCs along religious lines in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. It benefits the BJP.
Speaking at launch of economist Surjit Bhalla’s book, S Jaishankar also highlights Gen Z’s engagement with ‘reel culture’, which has 'promoted awareness, created interest in many subjects'.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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